This research focused on the educational dimension of student occupations, with a specific focus on the participation of black students at the Governador Barbosa Lima State School, in Recife - PE. The context of the research is the series of mobilizations that began in 2016, which included occupations of public schools and universities as a form of protest against the secondary education reform sanctioned by then-president Michel Temer after the coup against president Dilma Rousseff. They also included demands for a more inclusive and critical education. The guiding question of the study was: "How did student occupations impact the personal and political formation of black students, and what learning emerged from this process?" The general objective was to understand how these occupations influenced the training of students, considering ethnic and racial issues. To achieve this objective, a qualitative methodology was used, including interviews with six former high school students, as well as analysis of documents and visual productions related to the occupations. The interviews were analyzed using some aspects of Bardin's content analysis technique, and the data was processed in the NVIVO software to create analysis categories. The main results revealed that the occupations had a profound and multifaceted impact on the training of the participants. The analysis categories identified were: Subjectivity and Personal Change, Identity and Racism, Political Dimension, Social Learning, Cultural Learning and Organization and Collaboration Strategies. The students reported significant changes in their personal and political perceptions, highlighting the awareness of racism, the expansion of political and social understanding and the learning of organizational and social coexistence strategies. The conclusions indicate that student occupations were spaces for learning and transformation, offering black students an experience to develop critical sense and affirm their identities. The reports highlight the importance of these mobilizations in their formation as more engaged and aware citizens, as well as awakening in some the desire to study and continue their studies after high school.