Queens College (New York, N.Y.)
Organization
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Julian Bond at Queens College in 2011 Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0122
Scope and Contents
Fliers and program; signed copy of Julian Bond's typed speech; text panels from display.
Dates:
2011
June Tauber Golden Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0039
Scope and Contents
June Tauber Golden is a graduate of Queens College Class of 1963 and in this interview, she recalls her involvement in both the Jamaica and Virginia Student Help Projects as a tutor. The Student Help Project was a student-led initiative to tutor young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. The Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged approximately 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally disadvantaged and...
Dates:
2020-11-18
Kupferberg Center and Performing Arts Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0009
Scope and Contents
This collection documents performing arts related events and programs associated with Queens College from 1938 to 2004. This includes activities from the early days of the college, such as the Orchestral Society and Choral Society; the Colden Center (founded in 1960); and today's the Kupferberg Center for the Arts. The collection contains photographs, invitations, memos, brochures, programs, and other printed ephemera.
Dates:
1938 - 2023
Leonard Hausman Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0029
Scope and Contents
Leonard Hausman shares his experience fundraising, organizing, and participating in the Virginia Student Help Project of Queens College during the summer of 1963. The Virginia Student Help Project was a six-week long educational effort where Queens College students went to Prince Edward County, Virginia where public schools were closed for five years in massive resistance to federally mandated integration. Hausman discusses his role as a project lead and tutor in the Virginia initiative, as...
Dates:
2020-10-28
Leonard S. Rodberg Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0007
Scope and Contents
In these two interviews, Dr. Leonard Rodberg discusses his journey as a scientist and as a member of the faculty at Queens College. He reminisces about getting interested in science as a boy growing up at the beginning of what he calls the Atomic Age, about working in Washington, D.C. on nuclear arms control and energy policy, and about the highlights of his career at Queens College, including being chair at the Department of Urban Studies. This interview was conducted as part of English...
Dates:
2012-02-27
2012-03-21
Leslie F. (Skip) Griffin, Jr. Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0041
Scope and Contents
Leslie Francis Griffin, Jr., colloquially known as “Skip,” is the son of Reverend L. Francis Griffin, who coordinated with Dr. Rachel Weddington to have Queens College students tutor children in Prince Edward County during the summer of 1963 as part of the Student Help Project. The public schools of Prince Edward County were closed for five years starting in 1959 in massive resistance to integration, denying many of the local young black students access to education, including Skip Griffin...
Dates:
2021-02-17
Queens College Library Department Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0117
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of the Library Department at Queens College, including library buildings, services, operations, and publications.
Dates:
1937 - 2024
Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0096
Abstract
The Lucille Kyvallos Athletics Records and Papers document Kyvallos’s career as the coach of the Queens College Women’s Basketball team from 1968-1981 and as a trailblazer in women’s college basketball. The collection contains materials related to Kyvallos’s coaching and teaching; promotional and publicity materials about Queens College’s team and women’s basketball tournaments, camps, clinics, and championships; honors and awards; administrative and planning documents; photographs; and some...
Dates:
circa 1950s-2020; Majority of material found within 1968-2000
Martin Luther King Jr. at Queens College in 1965 Collection
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0121
Scope and Contents
Transcript and audio clips of Martin Luther King Jr's speech at Queens College at the Colden Center on May 13, 1965, as well as press coverage of the speech.
Dates:
May, 1965
Mary Reuder Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0005
Scope and Contents
In the first of these two interviews, Dr. Mary Reuder discusses various aspects of her academic career: the importance of being active in one’s academic community as well as outside it, the difficulty of getting academic jobs especially at a time when discrimination against women was common, her view that there is no conflict between religious belief and science as well as the anti-Catholic prejudice she experienced as a young academic in the 1960s.In the second interview, she...
Dates:
1986-02-26, 1987-11-17
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