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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...

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This series is comprised of materials collected by Oscar Shafter during his employment at Queens College.

Scope and Contents Subseries A contains correspondence from Queens College’s first president Paul Klapper, correspondence with Queens College faculty, administration, and students; and correspondence and memoranda from Shaftel’s membership on the Queens College Publicity committee. Also present are Queens College student newspapers from 1953 to 1994 with articles featuring Shaftel; a drawing of the Queens College campus; a photograph of Oscar Shaftel in Iwo Jima with a B-29 plane in 1945; a photograph of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A contains correspondence from Queens College’s first president Paul Klapper, correspondence with Queens College faculty, administration, and students; and correspondence and memoranda from Shaftel’s membership on the Queens College Publicity committee. Also present are Queens College student newspapers from 1953 to 1994 with articles featuring Shaftel; a drawing of the Queens College campus; a photograph of Oscar Shaftel in Iwo Jima with a B-29 plane in 1945; a photograph of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A contains correspondence from Queens College’s first president Paul Klapper, correspondence with Queens College faculty, administration, and students; and correspondence and memoranda from Shaftel’s membership on the Queens College Publicity committee. Also present are Queens College student newspapers from 1953 to 1994 with articles featuring Shaftel; a drawing of the Queens College campus; a photograph of Oscar Shaftel in Iwo Jima with a B-29 plane in 1945; a photograph of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A contains correspondence from Queens College’s first president Paul Klapper, correspondence with Queens College faculty, administration, and students; and correspondence and memoranda from Shaftel’s membership on the Queens College Publicity committee. Also present are Queens College student newspapers from 1953 to 1994 with articles featuring Shaftel; a drawing of the Queens College campus; a photograph of Oscar Shaftel in Iwo Jima with a B-29 plane in 1945; a photograph of...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A contains correspondence from Queens College’s first president Paul Klapper, correspondence with Queens College faculty, administration, and students; and correspondence and memoranda from Shaftel’s membership on the Queens College Publicity committee. Also present are Queens College student newspapers from 1953 to 1994 with articles featuring Shaftel; a drawing of the Queens College campus; a photograph of Oscar Shaftel in Iwo Jima with a B-29 plane in 1945; a photograph of...

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Subseries B, Student Clubs and Activism, contains flyers advertising Queens College student clubs, activities, and elections that promoted academic freedom, the right for all political groups to organize on campus, and opposing discrimination against students based on religion and race.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries B, Student Clubs and Activism, contains flyers advertising Queens College student clubs, activities, and elections that promoted academic freedom, the right for all political groups to organize on campus, and opposing discrimination against students based on religion and race.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Subseries B, Student Clubs and Activism, contains flyers advertising Queens College student clubs, activities, and elections that promoted academic freedom, the right for all political groups to organize on campus, and opposing discrimination against students based on religion and race.