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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

Study Abroad Program records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0140
Scope and Contents

Portfolios, brochures, and posters advertising study abroad opportunities via Queens College and CUNY from 1965-1970.

Dates: 1965 - 1970

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

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Queens College (New York, N.Y.) 61
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City University of New York. Search for Education and Knowledge Program 2
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Hartman, Tess 2
Konzal, Jean 2
Kouguell, Alexander 2
Lee, Robert I. 2
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Paul Klapper Library 2
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Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Department of Music 2
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Rathaus, Karol, 1895-1954 2
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Savio, Mario 2
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference 2
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Wallach, Lori 2
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Young, Andrew 2
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Berube, Maurice R. 1
Birstein, Ann 1
BlackMass Publishing 1
Bond , Julian, 1940-2015 1
Booklyn Artists Alliance 1
Booklyn, Inc. 1
Bourne, Randolph Silliman, 1886-1918 1
Branciforte, Richard 1
Brock, Carol 1
Brostek, Joseph 1
Buckley, William F., Jr., 1925-2008 1
Cabán, Tiffany 1
Cairns, Helen Smith, 1938-12-5 1
Carey, Tom 1
Carra, Regina 1
Civil Rights Coordinating Council 1
Clark, Edward G., Jr. 1
Cohen, Saul B. (Saul Bernard), 1925-2021 1
Colden, Charles S. 1
Colson, Jacqueline 1
Commoner, Barry 1
Covington, Sarah 1
Daughters of Bilitis 1
Delany, Sheila 1
DellaPina, Mario 1
Democratic Socialists of America 1
Dildilian, Margaret 1
Dolcimascolo, Gelia 1
Donno, Daniel 1
Dow Chemical Company 1
Dow Jones & Co 1
Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women 1
Errera, Steven 1
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