The study focus the genesis of the student organization at a Nursing School since 1947 until 1959. The objectives are: to describe the social and political context; to describe the emergency of student's fights; to identify the profile of the participants of the political organization and to analyze the participation of the students in those fights. The data were collected from the documents of the Nursing Directory, newspapers and interviews done with oral history technique. The information collected revels that the Nursing Directory shares the same proposals of the Nursing School direction, who was interested in the divulgation of the new course. In the other hand, students organizations at the same University and in others regions of Brazil fight by public schools and the political autonomy of the Country.
History; Student organization; Nursing