ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the impact of the 1964 coup d’état on Brazilian higher education through the repression of university leaders. It investigates the political processes that conditioned the removal of rectors that year and the resignation of the rector João Alfredo of the Universidade do Recife (UR), currently Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE). The goal of this study is to identify the modalities of organization and action, especially media, used by conservative groups and intellectuals led by Gilberto Freyre in disputes over the hegemony of the university during the military dictatorship. This research is based on University Council Minutes, widely-circulated newspapers, oral history interviews, and the reports of the National Truth Commission and the Dom Hélder Câmara Memory and Truth Commission.
Keywords:
1964 coup d’état; university; Rector João Alfredo; Gilberto Freyre; repression