City College Melee 1949

A student of City College of New York, is surrounded by uniformed and plainclothes police as he goes into a wild swing during a melee outside the main campus building at 139th Street and Convent Avenue, New York, April 11, 1949. The free-for-all took place as students started picketing in a protest against alleged anti-Semitism and racial discrimination by two faculty members. (AP Photo/Tony Camerano).