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Box 4

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Correspondence, circa 1930s-1950s

 Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s

Queens College Students and Professors (9 folders), circa 1930s-1950s

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa 1930s-1950s

Queens College After the War, circa late 1940s

 File — Box: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Correspondence between Shaftel and family, colleagues, friends, and former students, roughly from the 1930s through the 1950s. Includes a large quantity of letters written during World War II, when Shaftel served in the United States Air Force (1942-1946).

Dates: circa late 1940s

Oscar Shaftel Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
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...
Dates: 1932 - 2009