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This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

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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 This series consists of three folders of material documenting Shaftel's dismissal from Queens College, including correspondence from Queens College President John T. Theobald (1953); a copy of the transcript from Oscar Shaftel’s testimony before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee; correspondence regarding Shaftel’s appeal of his termination by Queens College; testimony of former Queens College professor Vera Shlankman; court documents of former professors Dudley Straus and Francis...

Scope and Contents This series consists of two folders of material documenting the reinstatement of Shaftel's pension. Items include letters from Oscar Shaftel to the Board of Higher Education of the City University of New York and others; a copy of correspondence from a Queens College alumnus to City University of New York’s Board of Trustees in support of Oscar Shaftel, Vera Shlankman, and Dudley Straus; a transcript of Shaftel’s testimony before the Board of Trustees on March 17, 1980; press clippings and...

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series is comprised of materials (11 folders) documenting Shaftel's time at Queens College (circa 1937-1953), including six folders documenting student clubs and activism. Additional materials include press releases (many issued by Shaftel), transcripts, letters, memos, declassified documents, and photographs.

Abstract The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence, flyers, press clippings, memos, press releases, transcripts of testimony, and subject files 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...