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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...
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.
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.
Susan Nichols Papers
Collection
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...
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