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Box 2

 Container

Contains 23 Results:

Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0056
Abstract Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum graduated with honors from Queens College in 1965 with a major in sociology. At Queens College, she worked with the Student Help Project to provide free tutoring services to under-served schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. During the summer of 1963, Padow-Sederbaum was one of sixteen Queens College students who lived with black families in Farmville, Virginia and tutored African American children who had been denied formal...
Dates: 1961-2000

Photographs, 1963-2000

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Series II:
Scope and Contents This series is arranged chronologically. Many of the black and white photographs were taken by Padow-Sederbaum and depict her experiences living and tutoring in Prince Edward County during the summer of 1963. Students, teachers and community leaders engaging in various activities are shown. Many are taken at what was then known as the "Prince Edward State Park for Negroes", established as a "separate but equal" facility in 1950. There are photographs of the Junior NAACP protesting segregated...
Dates: 1961-2000

Junior NAACP Sit-Ins, Farmville, VA, July-August 1963

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: Series II:
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series is arranged chronologically. Many of the black and white photographs were taken by Padow-Sederbaum and depict her experiences living and tutoring in Prince Edward County during the summer of 1963. Students, teachers and community leaders engaging in various activities are shown. Many are taken at what was then known as the "Prince Edward State Park for Negroes", established as a "separate but equal" facility in 1950. There are photographs of the Junior NAACP protesting segregated...
Dates: July-August 1963