Box 3

Scope and Contents Note One scrapbook documents Gatti’s work in Taxco, Mexico during the summers of 1963 and 1964 with the Queens College Mexico Volunteers, a student group working to improve conditions in several impoverished Mexican villages and towns. The scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper articles written by Gatti. Another scrapbook contained photographs and newspaper articles documenting Gatti’s experiences in Mississippi during the spring of 1965, where he and a group...

Scope and Contents Note From the Series: One scrapbook documents Gatti’s work in Taxco, Mexico during the summers of 1963 and 1964 with the Queens College Mexico Volunteers, a student group working to improve conditions in several impoverished Mexican villages and towns. The scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper articles written by Gatti. Another scrapbook contained photographs and newspaper articles documenting Gatti’s experiences in Mississippi during the spring of 1965, where he and a group...

Scope and Contents Note From the Series: One scrapbook documents Gatti’s work in Taxco, Mexico during the summers of 1963 and 1964 with the Queens College Mexico Volunteers, a student group working to improve conditions in several impoverished Mexican villages and towns. The scrapbook contains photographs, correspondence, and newspaper articles written by Gatti. Another scrapbook contained photographs and newspaper articles documenting Gatti’s experiences in Mississippi during the spring of 1965, where he and a group...

Abstract The Arthur Gatti Collection contains newspaper clippings, publications, documents, correspondence, fliers, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia documenting Gatti’s political and social activism at Queens College in the early-to-mid 1960s. Materials are from both Gatti’s direct experience and the activities of several major activist organizations in the national political and social landscape of the 1960s. The collection also documents the political career and personal life of...