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Who is Vito Marcantonio?
Gerald
Meyer,
Professor of History at
Hostos Community College (CUNY) and a Visiting Professor at Queens
College. Professor Meyer, the author of Vito Marcantonio: Radical
Politician, 1902-1954 (SUNY Press), has also written almost forty articles
and reviews, and is as well the editor of two anthologies.
 Professor Meyer has
been awarded a number of fellowships including a Rockefeller
Fellowship from the Center of Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter
College. He also serves on the
editorial board of Science & Society, the Italian American Review,
the Executive Committee of the Institute of Dominican Studies
(CUNY), the Academic Advisory Council of the Italian American
Institute (CUNY), and the Board of the East Harlem Historical
Organization.
Gerald
Meyer has been very active in the life of Hostos since he arrived in
1972. He has worked on voter registration, AIDS education, and is
currently the faculty advisor for the Student Government Organization and the
Gay and Lesbian Club. Who is Vito Marcantonio? The Congressman from East
Harlem from 1934-1950, who courageously and effectively struggled for all the
people of his community. Back to Previous
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