Lagoa Amarela Academic History Center in Defense of the Public University in Maranhão (1990-1999)

Abstract

The student movement has a history of struggles in defense of education in such a way that it is relevant to highlight the memory of students and their militancy within Brazilian universities. This article discusses the student movement of History through the Academic Center of History Lagoa Amarela of the Federal University of Maranhão in São Luís in the 1990s, a period marked by the student struggle in defense of public higher education in the country. The process of re-democratization in Brazil, where the advance of neoliberalism linked to privatization proposals, including the country's universities, is analyzed through written and iconographic documentary sources that were produced and archived by the entity itself throughout the administrations that acted at that time. . As a methodology, it uses the Oral History developed through three interviews with former students who served in the entity at that time, listening and analyzing the interviewees' speeches, silences, forgetfulness and memory conflicts. A study on the student movement and the struggle for a public, free and quality university for all. In addition, the student rights conquered and the emerging need to continue fighting for democratic public education in Brazil.