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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...

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...