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Sid Simon Photographs
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0063
Abstract
Sid Simon was the Queens College professor and faculty advisor for the student groups who wanted to volunteer in civil rights initiatives in the South. In 1965, Simon traveled twice to Mississippi to help rebuild churches that were burned down by the Ku Klux Klan. The first group traveled in February; the second during Easter recess. The photos in this collection depict students participating in the February construction projects, as well as scenes of the region in which the volunteers...
Dates:
1965
Soribel Genao Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0051
Scope and Contents
Soribel Genao talks about her family, education, interests, and general upbringing in Manhattan, then Brooklyn, then Manhattan again; the challenges of the higher education system and maneuvering it as an undergraduate and graduate student; the importance of mentors in her career and how she started at Queens College as a teaching professor rather than a research associate, as was her initial plan; how COVID impacted her as a teacher and how she has adapted for the current moment with...
Dates:
2020-09-15
Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0023
Scope and Contents
Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger discuss their experience initiating, coordinating, and participating in the Virginia Student Help Project and the Jamaica Student Help Project of Queens College in the early to mid-1960s. The Virginia Student Help Project was an intensive education effort during the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia where public schools were closed for five years in massive resistance to integration. The Jamaica Student Help Project took place closer to home....
Dates:
2020-07-15
Stan Shaw Papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0064
Abstract
Stan Shaw was Chairman of the Student Help Project at Queens College from January 1963 through January 1964. The Student Help Project provided free tutoring services to schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens (circa 1962-1968) and Prince Edward County, Virginia (summer of 1963). In South Jamaica, Queens College volunteers assisted children functioning below grade level. In Prince Edward County, they tutored African American children who had been denied formal schooling since 1959, when...
Dates:
1963-1976
Steven Errera energy futures papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0008
Abstract
Materials collected by Queens College alumnus Steven Errera related to his career in the early years of the energy futures market.
Dates:
1969 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1989
Susan Glaser Oral History
File
Identifier: QMP-0031
Scope and Contents
Susan Glaser, daughter of immigrants, grew up in Jamaica, Queens, and attended Queens College in the second half of the 1960s. In this interview, she reminisces fondly about her time in the campus and how much she enjoyed an active social life as a member and later president of the Doll House house plan. She also reflects on how political events like Nixon’s campaign for the presidency and the shooting of Martin Luther King Jr. occurred during her student years, and how everything seemed to...
Dates:
2020-12-17
Susan Nichols Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0065
Abstract
Susan Nichols was a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Project in 1964-1965. A graduate of Southern Illinois University, (B.A. in Psychology, 1983) and Boston University (Masters in Social Work, 1984). She worked for civil rights and social justice organizations, such as the Freedom Democratic Party, Caesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, Let Cuba Live, Cuba Solidarity and Pastors for Peace. The collection contains incident reports and affidavits on violence, memos, institutional...
Dates:
1960-1989
Underground Newspapers Microfilm Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0109
Scope and Contents
Microfilmed newspapers cover a diverse range of movements such as the anti-Vietnam War movement, civil rights, women’s
rights, gay rights, American Indian issues, Black power, Eastern spirituality, the New Left, and the youth and counterculture of the 1960s-1970s.
Publications are individually cataloged in two places: first, as catalog entries in OneSearch (use keyword "underground newspaper collection", then...
Dates:
1963 - 1973
Vincent Giordano Before The Flame Goes Out Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-HAP-0001
Abstract
Multi-media collection created by Vincent Giordano documenting the Romaniote Jewish community in New York's lower east side, and its mother synagogue in Ioannina, Greece.
Dates:
circa 1999-2010
Waldo Jeff Oral History
File
Identifier: QMP-0038
Abstract
This oral history was conducted by Obden Modesir (interviewer) and Waldo Jeff (interviewee) in July and August 2019. In this interview, Waldo Jeff talks about his time as one of the first counselors of Queens College's SEEK program, his path to New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and his involvelment in civil rights movements in both the Deep South and the North.
Dates:
2019-07-25 - 2019-08-20
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