Junior NAACP Sit-Ins, Farmville, VA, July-August 1963

File — Box: 2, Folder: 1

Identifier: Series II:

Staff Only

Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Digitized Photographs in JSTOR

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

This series is arranged chronologically. Many of the black and white photographs were taken by Padow-Sederbaum and depict her experiences living and tutoring in Prince Edward County during the summer of 1963. Students, teachers and community leaders engaging in various activities are shown. Many are taken at what was then known as the "Prince Edward State Park for Negroes", established as a "separate but equal" facility in 1950. There are photographs of the Junior NAACP protesting segregated facilities. At the request of local civil rights leaders, Queens College students observed but did not participate in the demonstrations.

Photographs also document Padow-Sederbaum’s work with the Jamaica Student Help Project in Queens, including a faculty-student football game fundraiser in September 1963 and of Padow-Sederbaum’s students at Springfield Gardens Methodist Church in May 1964. During intercession in January 1964, Padow-Sederbaum made a return trip to Farmville with fellow volunteers Mike Wenger and Stan Shaw; she took pictures of Shaw and Wenger in Washington D.C. during this trip.

Later color photographs, from 1978 and 2000, document reunions of Student Help Project members. Both were held at the residence of Rachel Weddington, the African-American education professor who served as trip mentor.

Dates

July-August 1963

Access

Collection is open for research. Staff may restrict access at its discretion on the basis of physical condition. Researchers may not cite or use correspondence or photographs without written permission from Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum.