CR. Civil Rights and Social Justice
Collecting Area
Identifier: CR
Queens College students and faculty have a rich history of participation in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, as well as other struggles for social justice. Starting in 2009, Special Collections and Archives (SCA) began collecting materials from alumni, faculty, and community members involved in these movements. The collections document projects like Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964 and the Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) project in 1965, as well as local and campus chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). SCA also has smaller quantities of materials related to McCarthyism and LGBTQIA activism. SCA continues to incorporate a broader array of voices, organizations, and eras in this collecting area.
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Susan Nichols Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0065
Abstract
Susan Nichols was a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964-1965. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, (B.A. in Psychology, 1983) and Boston University (Masters in Social Work, 1984). She worked for civil rights and social justice organizations, such as the Freedom Democratic Party, Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Let Cuba Live, Cuba Solidarity and Pastors for Peace. The collection contains incident reports and affidavits on violence, memos, institutional...
Dates:
1960-1989
Underground Newspapers Microfilm Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0109
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed newspapers cover a diverse range of movements such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights, women’s
rights, gay rights, American Indian issues, Black power, Eastern spirituality, the New Left, and the youth and counterculture of the 1960s-1970s.
Publications are individually cataloged in two places: first, as catalog entries in OneSearch (use keyword "underground newspaper collection", then...
Dates:
1963 - 1973
Wally Rosenthal Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0134
Scope and Contents
Student activism materials circa late 1960s and early 1970s, including documentation of the Counter Commencement held in 1969.
Invitation to 6/3/69 Counter Commencement in the Phoenix
Counter Commencement Program 1969
Counter Commencement Speech by Ekkehart Krippendorff 1969
Wally Rosenthal Platform and Policy Statement for Student Assocation...
Dates:
1969
