Student Senator Introduces Bill to Investigate Albany High School Protest Incident
1969 November 21
After university students join a November 12th protest of black students for equal treatment at Albany High School, the meeting is forcibly dispersed by the police. Later in the month, student Senator Steve Villano introduced a bill to the University Senate that asked for that body to call upon the New York State Commission on Human Rights to investigate the incident. After consultation with Dr. Harry Hamilton, head of Albany's NAACP and Director of the EOP Program at the university, about the motion's legal validity, it is eventually withdrawn.