Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Barbara (Jones) Omolade Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0029
Abstract
The Barbara (Jones) Omolade Collection documents civil rights activism on the Queens College campus during the 1960s, including the Freedom Week Events of 1964. This collection also provides material pertaining to the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Dates:
1963–1995, bulk 1963-1965; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1965
Dorothy (Dottie) Zellner Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0045
Scope and Contents
Dorothy “Dottie” Zellner (born in 1938) discusses growing up in Manhattan as the daughter of immigrants in a Left, Jewish family in Manhattan. She recalls being a young child during the second World War, when Nazi hatred of Jews and the potential for Germany to attack the United States were experienced as imminent threats. Zellner discusses how McCarthyism affected her family in the late 1940s through the 1950s, and her experience at Music and Art High School, which she attended from...
Dates:
2019-06-10
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- Atlanta (Ga.) 1
- interviews 1
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