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Arthur Gatti Papers
Collection — Box: All Boxes
Identifier: SCA-0027-001
Abstract
The Arthur Gatti Collection contains newspaper clippings, publications, documents, correspondence, fliers, posters, photographs, scrapbooks, and memorabilia documenting Gatti’s political and social activism at Queens College in the early-to-mid 1960s. Materials are from both Gatti’s direct experience and the activities of several major activist organizations in the national political and social landscape of the 1960s. The collection also documents the political career and personal life of...
Barbara (Jones) Omolade Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0029-002
Overview
The Barbara (Jones) Omolade Collection documents civil rights activism on the Queens College campus during the 1960s, including the Freedom Week Events of 1964. This collection also provides material pertaining to the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Elliot Linzer Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0036
Abstract
The Elliot Linzer Collection consists primarily of near-print materials, such as handbills, mimeographed flyers, and pamphlets documenting the activities of various New York City-area chapters of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a civil rights organization, during the early 1960s. Elliot Linzer is a Queens College alumnus and former member of CORE.
George Albertz Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0038-A
Abstract
The George Albertz Papers (1964-2011) document Albertz’s stay and arrests in Greenwood, Mississippi during the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, a national campaign to register black voters in Mississippi. The collection also covers his involvement in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a civil rights party that challenged the whites-only Democratic Party in Mississippi. Included are articles on the deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered on June...
Hortense Powdermaker Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0038
Abstract
Hortense Powdermaker (1896-1970) was a noted anthropologist, writer and educator (professor of Anthropology at Queens College, New York, from 1937 to 1968). The collection comprises materials related to her research and field work in the late 1920s, early 1930s and early 1950s in Lesu, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Indianola, Mississippi, and Luanshya, Zambia, respectively and includes field notes, interviews, survey results, correspondence, and unpublished manuscripts of writings. The...
J. Chester Johnson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0041
Abstract
The J. Chester Johnson Collection is physically owned by the Queens College Libraries. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assignees. The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Queens College assumes no responsibility for the infringement of copyrights held by the original authors, creators, or producers of materials.
Johnnie Mae Walker Letter to Anne Koeppicus
Collection
Identifier: SCA-0025-002
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.
Mark Levy Papers
Series
Identifier: SCA-0046
Abstract
Mark Levy volunteered for the Mississippi Freedom Summer project of 1964 as co-coordinator and teacher at the Meridian Freedom School in Lauderdale County. A graduate of Queens College, (B.A. in Sociology 1964, M.S. in Social Studies Education 1973), he was also a former Student Association President (1962-1963), and former SEEK Program faculty member (1968-1973). In the 1970s he was a union organizer and representative for United Electrical Radio, and Machine Workers of American (UE), Local...
Queens College Clock Tower Bells Collection
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0062
Abstract
This collection contains photos and related papers
documenting the creation and installation of the five
bells in the Chaney-Goodman-Schwerner Clock
Tower of Queens College’s Rosenthal Library.
Robert Masters Papers
Collection — Box: 1-2
Identifier: SCA-0058
Abstract
Robert Masters graduated from Queens College in
1966; at age 20 he spent seven weeks in Greenwood,
Mississippi as a volunteer in the Freedom Summer of
1964. The collection includes newspaper and
magazine articles, color snapshots, letters in which
Masters describes his work in Greenwood, and
artifacts.
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