Box 7
Container
Contains 3 Results:
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
Secondary Material and Exhibits, 1952 - 2003
Series — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
This series contains materials collected by Queens College and Library staff on Shaftel, as well as documentation of an exhibit on McCarthyism that took place in the Queens College Library in 2003.
Dates:
1952 - 2003
Dorothy Pita Exhibit Files, circa 2003
File — Box: 7
Scope and Contents
Dorothy Pita's files from her work curating the "McCarthyism at Queens College" exhibit at the Queens College Library in 2003.
Dates:
circa 2003
