In the sixties, student-led protest movements transformed university and college campuses across the United States. The 1969 takeover at the City College of New York had arguably the most far-reaching consequences of all of the protests of this period. As the flagship campus of the City University of New York system, City College had a well-known reputation for giving the city's white students a first-rate education regardless of their parents' social status. Young people of black and Puerto Rican descent, however, had less access to the school. Fed up with this unequal access, the Black and Puerto Rican Student Community (BPRSC) seized and occupied buildings on the south campus of the City College of New York from April 23 to May 5, 1969, while negotiating five demands. Revisiting these revolutionary times, the City College Libraries commemorated the 40th anniversary of the student protest and takeover of 1969 with an exhibit in the atrium of the Morris Raphael Cohen Library in the spring of 2009. Initially, City College archivist Sydney Van Nort approached historian Adrienne Petty because twentieth-century American history was one of Petty's research specialties. Van Nort wanted a historian's analysis of the events of the spring of 1969 to be part of the exhibition. Although Petty could not commit to writing for the exhibition, she mentioned that studying the spring of 1969 at City College could be a great way to expose the students in her "Rebels and Reactionaries" class to primary source documents and address the tendency of her students to rely heavily on the writing technique of mashing up interpretations culled from Internet sources. This article describes how, Van Nort, Petty, and William Gibbons, a librarian at City College, worked together to bring students enrolled in Petty's class to the archives.