Student Strike, Thursday, April 20, 1939

Front page of the April 20, 1939 newsletter of the City College Anti-War Committee. It announces a demonstration in the Great Hall of Shepard Hall featuring activists from across the nation to advocate for the Anti-War Program and in favor of maintaining neutrality at the onset of World War II. The newsletter also reports that CCNY students will join a national student strike impacting more than 200 colleges. This document shows that the anti-fascist movement on the CCNY campus that commenced in the early 1930s, and reached a peak with the support of Spain's democracy around 1935, remained strong through the beginning of the second world war.