[1][2] In 1964, the middle class in Brazil, faced with strong anti-communist propaganda and an economic crisis, supported the deposition of João Goulart expecting a quick transition to democracy.

[5][7] On the afternoon of the second day of the conflict, José Guimarães, a student at the Marina Cintra High School in São Paulo, was shot in the head during the confrontation.

According to the Grupo Tortura Nunca Mais (English: Torture Never Again), José Carlos Guimarães, the student who died during the confrontation, was murdered by Osni Ricardo, a member of the CCC and a police informer.

The Battle of Maria Antônia inspired retired police officer Marcos Gama to write the novel Vila Buarque: O Caldo da Regressão, published by Alameda in 2017.

[9][10] According to Professor Antonio Candido de Mello e Souza, the conflict made USP transition from a neutral attitude to an organized movement concerned with the social problems of the time.

At the time, USP was already starting a political debate on national issues, as the founding foreign professors had left and the academic staff began to include an absolute majority of Brazilians.

One of the most important moments was when the CCC invaded, vandalized and spray-painted hate messages on the DAFAM (Mackenzie Architecture Faculty Directory), a basement space where students hid.