Peterson, Jon A.

Scope and Contents This file consists of a digital audio recording. The recording captures a roundtable discussion, wherein Dr. Jon Peterson and Dr. Dean Savage speak to the students in Dr. Bobby Wintermute’s History 392W Oral History Seminar. Among the many topics they address are the history of Queens College’s founding, admissions policies and curricular changes; loyalty oaths and other manifestations of the Cold War era; campus protests and activism during the 1960s; the New York City fiscal crisis of the...

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This file consists of a typed transcript of the interview, correspondence, IRB forms, pre-interview survey, interview subject data form, and a list of questions.

Abstract: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection contains papers, correspondence, and flyers regarding the Spring 1969 sit-in protest of the social science building by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression. The protest was in defense of the three members of the Students for a Democratic Society who were arrested and charged for leading a protest for the removal of General Electric recruiters from QC campus. The sit-in lasted four days resulting in the arrests of thirty-eight students...