Correspondence from Queens College Staff Member, 1965

The Barbara (Jones) Omolade collection (1963–1995) documents the experience of Barbara (Jones) Omolade in the Civil Rights Movement, with emphasis on civil rights activism on the Queens College campus (1964). The bulk of the collection dates from 1963-1965 and focuses on QC’s Freedom Week and the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. The materials are largely organizational, consisting of memos, flyers, forms, reports, and correspondences. Highlights of this collection include QC student activist sign-in sheets with the signature of Andrew Goodman and a speech delivered by SNCC executive secretary James Forman in Mississippi during 1964. The Barbara (Jones) Omolade collection also contains documents relating to the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Mississippi Summer Project Curriculum Conference. Overall, this collection documents how college students in the northeast organized and educated fellow students about the southern-based civil rights movement. Furthermore, the collection provides evidence of how Northern students were recruited to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project.