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Jean L. Konzal Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0043
Scope and Contents Jean Konzal talks about her early life in growing up in Pomonok Queens - her parents were left leaning working class immigrants from Ukraine, and her aunt was in the communist party. She also discusses her experience as a Queens College student and her involvement with the Queens College house plans, which were social organizations at the school.Jean Konzal was 19 when she saw an ad in the QC student paper “The Signal” about the Student Help Project, and began tutoring kids in...
Dates: 2020-12-08

Jean L. Konzal Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0042
Abstract

This collection includes personal and printed materials, photographs, and feature personal accounts of Konzal’s activities as a tutor, civil rights activist, and student. The collection documents the Student Help Project in Prince Edward County, Virginia, and, to a lesser extent, other civil rights activism through 1965. Also present are materials on the 1963 March on Washington and documents from several civil rights organizations.

Dates: 1962-2012; Majority of material found within 1963 - 1964

Jerry Kelly Book Arts Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0124
Scope and Contents

Limited edition books, exhibit catalogs, and printed keepsakes designed and/or authored by Jerry Kelly, a book designer, calligrapher, type designer, and typographer, on various topics in history and the arts. Publishers include The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, David R. Godine, The Kelly-Winterton Press, and The Grolier Club.

Dates: circa 1980s-2000s

Jessica Harris Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0050
Scope and Contents Obden Mondesir interviews Dr. Jessica Harris, a professor in the Queens College SEEK program. Dr. Harris (b. 1948) was born and raised in Queens. She recalls her childhood in the St. Albans neighborhood and evolving demographic of Jamaica, Queens during the 1950s. As a self-proclaimed “Queens College brat,” Dr. Harris recounts her early relationship with the Queens College campus and faculty, as her mother worked in administration in the music department at Queens College for most of her...
Dates: 2021-03-16

Joan Nestle Oral History (1991-1992)

 Collection
Identifier: SCA-0075-B
Scope and Contents In the first interview from 1991, Melissa Thomas talks to Joan Nestle about her role in the Queens College Seek Program; the Lesbian Herstory Archives; her writing career; and her background as a Queens College student and as a lesbian and feminist. Nestle details her experience with the Queens College SEEK community and her lesbian feminist community. She reflects on the negative and positive aspects of teaching a multicultural program in an all white environment, discusses her illness...
Dates: 1991 - 1992-03-07

Joan Nestle Oral History (2011)

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Identifier: SCA-0075-A
Scope and Contents The interview explores Nestle's time at Queens College as a student-activist (1959-1963) and teacher in the SEEK program (1966-1995). She discusses her upbringing in New York, the conservative culture of Queens College, her oft-times combative experiences as a student, as well as her incredibly fulfilling time spent teaching in the SEEK program. Nestle also discusses how being an activist in the civil rights movement was paramount to shaping her role in the gay liberation movement, as...
Dates: 2011-04-06

Joel Mandelbaum Manuscripts and Printed Music

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0099
Abstract

The Joel Mandelbaum Manuscripts and Printed Music collection contains numerous printed and handwritten scores and manuscripts created by Joel Mandelbaum. Dr. Mandelbaum joined the Queens College faculty in 1961, serving as a professor of music for the Queens College Department of Music (later renamed the Aaron Copland School of Music in 1980) and retiring in 1999 after 37 years of service to the university.

Dates: 1960 - 2011

John Tytell Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0123
Scope and Contents Manuscripts and notes (mostly hand written, some typed) for Tytell's books Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano (1987) and Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath...in Love (1991), as well as copies of the published books. There is also a manusript of a speech on Walt Whitman given at Queens College on April 8, 1997, and copy of his book Naked angels: Kerouac,...
Dates: 1976 - 1997

Johnnie Mae Walker Letter to Anne Koeppicus

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0025
Abstract

This letter, to Mississippi Freedom Summer Project volunteer Anne Koeppicus, is from her Mississippi host Johnnie Mae Walker, a field secretary for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The letter describes life in Mississippi during the summer of 1964. A newspaper article about Koeppicus, a photo of Koeppicus, a published autobiography of Walker, and transcript of the letter are also included.

Dates: 1964

Julian Bond at Queens College in 2011 Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0122
Scope and Contents

Fliers and program; signed copy of Julian Bond's typed speech; text panels from display.

Dates: 2011

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