Shaftel, Oscar
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Materials on Oscar Shaftel
Sub-Series — Box: 2
Identifier: Subseries A:
Scope and Contents
Subseries A is comprised of printed materials about Oscar Shaftel.
Dates:
1937-2000; undated
Oscar Shaftel Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract
The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence,
flyers, press clippings, transcripts of testimony, printed
materials and miscellanea documenting student activism at
Queens College in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the
effect of McCarthyism on academic freedom in New York
State. Oscar Shaftel, one of the original faculty members at
Queens College, was fired in 1953 under Section 903 of the
New York City Charter for refusing to testify in front of the
Senate Internal Security...
Dates:
1937-2000
Additional filters:
- Type
- Archival Object 1
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Communism in education 1
