Savage, Dean

Scope and Contents

In this interview, Dr. Bette Weidman discusses the start and development of her career as an English professor at Queens College. She also muses about how her interest in Queens College oral histories began, and the appeal of the genre as “a community of scholars conversing.”

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...

Scope and Contents In the interview, Dean discusses his childhood in rural western Washington state; his time at Stanford; his activism, including participation in the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project, registering black citizens to vote in 1965; his dissertation research in France; and his career at Queens College, starting in 1971. He describes changes to faculty working conditions, student population, and the curriculum over the years, based on his experience as a...

Abstract

The Dean Savage Papers documents civil rights initiatives by northern student volunteers under the auspices of the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project during the summer of 1965. This collection primarily consists of color photographs taken in Orangeburg County, South Carolina and Atlanta, Georgia. Also included are newspaper articles, pamphlets, and photocopied transcripts of speeches given at orientation in Atlanta, Georgia.