MAY 1968 AT FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ (UFPR)

Abstract

The aim of this article is to discuss the month of May of 1968 at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), highlighting the university student movement. This fact is the result of previous events as well as initiating possible future ones, that is, May 1968 is explained in correlation with preceding events and with expectations which mobilized those young students. This article is based on sources filed by the Police for Political and Social Order (DOPS) which served to file and sue student leaders and the minutes of the Council of the Federal University of Paraná, in an attempt to show student actions and repressive ways put in practice by university and police authorities.