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This series contains administrative correspondence from before and after the protest, student flyers for rallies and meetings, and various protest buttons. Newspaper clippings are from The Phoenix, Knightbeat, and The Activist.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains administrative correspondence from before and after the protest, student flyers for rallies and meetings, and various protest buttons. Newspaper clippings are from The Phoenix, Knightbeat, and The Activist.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

This series contains administrative correspondence from before and after the protest, student flyers for rallies and meetings, and various protest buttons. Newspaper clippings are from The Phoenix, Knightbeat, and The Activist.

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection consists of materials ranging from 1968-1970. The bulk of the collections relates to the four-day sit-in protest of the science building on QC campus by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression which resulted in the arrests of thirty-eight students and one faculty member. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, flyers, and newspaper articles. There's also a memoir/manuscript written by George Pierson, Dean...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection consists of materials ranging from 1968-1970. The bulk of the collections relates to the four-day sit-in protest of the science building on QC campus by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression which resulted in the arrests of thirty-eight students and one faculty member. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, flyers, and newspaper articles. There's also a memoir/manuscript written by George Pierson, Dean...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection consists of materials ranging from 1968-1970. The bulk of the collections relates to the four-day sit-in protest of the science building on QC campus by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression which resulted in the arrests of thirty-eight students and one faculty member. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, flyers, and newspaper articles. There's also a memoir/manuscript written by George Pierson, Dean...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection consists of materials ranging from 1968-1970. The bulk of the collections relates to the four-day sit-in protest of the science building on QC campus by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression which resulted in the arrests of thirty-eight students and one faculty member. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, flyers, and newspaper articles. There's also a memoir/manuscript written by George Pierson, Dean...

Scope and Content Note From the Collection: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection consists of materials ranging from 1968-1970. The bulk of the collections relates to the four-day sit-in protest of the science building on QC campus by members of the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression which resulted in the arrests of thirty-eight students and one faculty member. The collection contains correspondence, administrative papers, flyers, and newspaper articles. There's also a memoir/manuscript written by George Pierson, Dean...

Scope and Contents

Typed draft (with some hand written corrections), 86 pages. The first chapter provides an overview of Pierson’s reasons for producing the manuscript and thoughts on student unrest in the 1960s. The following chapters include a chronological accounting of events from September 25, 1968 through June 19, 1969. The final chapters consist of Pierson's reflections on his own experience as the Dean of Students during this tumultuous period.

Abstract: The Queens College Campus Unrest Collection contains papers, correspondence, and flyers regarding the Spring 1969 sit-in protest of the social science building by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Political Suppression. The protest was in defense of the three members of the Students for a Democratic Society who were arrested and charged for leading a protest for the removal of General Electric recruiters from QC campus. The sit-in lasted four days resulting in the arrests of thirty-eight students...