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Debby Yaffe Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0042
Scope and Contents Debby Yaffe was one of the youngest members of the Student Help Project who volunteered to go to Prince Edward County, Virginia, in the summer of 1963 to tutor local Black children who were denied a public education for four years in massive resistance to the desegregation of schools. Yaffe contributes her memories of organizing and preparing for the summer initiative. In Prince Edward County, Yaffe served as the librarian of the Queens College group, rather than as a tutor, which she had to...
Dates: 2021-03-26

Ellen Weingart, Linda Tucker, and Edith Balan Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0003
Scope and Contents

In the group interview, the three Queens College alumnae, Ellen Weingart, Edith Balan, and Linda Tucker, reminisce about what an achievement it was to get admitted to Queens College in the early 1960s when they were college students, about joining house plans and enjoying a vibrant social life in the campus, and about choosing and enjoying the required physical education classes like lacrosse, swimming, and folk dancing.

Dates: 2018-10-14

Elliot Linzer Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
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 New York City 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.

Dates: 1961-1966

Fern Kruger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0027
Scope and Contents Fern Kruger reflects on her time as a student at Queens College in the 1960s, as well as the extent of her participation in the Queens College Jamaica Student Help Project. Kruger was a volunteer in the Jamaica Student Help Project, where she was a tutor to young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. At its height, the Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally challenged,...
Dates: 2020-11-6

Forbes Hill Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0037
Abstract

The Forbes Hill Collection contains printed materials, news clippings, and correspondence related to the life of Forbes Hill, a political activist and academic who taught at Queens College from 1964-2008.

Dates: 1914-2008, bulk 1946-1964

Helene and Stanley Schlesinger Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0036
Abstract

Helene and Stanley Schlesinger were interviewed in their home in Kew Garden Hills, Flushing, in February 2011 by Tess Hartman for the Queens Memory Project.

Dates: 2011-02-16

Hikmah Abodunrin Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0037
Abstract

Hikmah Abdunrin gives an oral history interview to Arbesh Khan and Reshad Hai in April 2016 as part of the Queens Memory Project.

Dates: 2016-04-19

Hratch Zadoian Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0039
Abstract

This collection consists of items donated by Hratch Zadoian, professor of political science and retired administrator at Queens College, relating to various projects he was involved with between 1983 and 2011. The collection includes photos; news clippings; printed booklets and programs; videotapes; and other miscellanea. Some of the items have been digitized.

Dates: 1983-2011

J. Chester Johnson Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0041
Scope and Content Note

This collection documents Johnson’s participation in the civil rights movement as well as later involvement in social justice efforts through literary works he has created. The collection contains five physical works, one digital work, miscellaneous papers and articles describing social justice events he participated in, and a typed profile sheet of Johnson as a poet.

Dates: 2005 - 2014

Jannis Izaak Risseeuw Parental School Album and Ephemera

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCA-0087
Content Description One album with more than 100 black and white photographs of the Parental School, the predecessor institution to Queens College, which operated from 1909-1934. The album contains photos of the dormitory, bakery, grounds, printshop, tailor, and various educational and social activities. Some items document family photographs and trips outside of the school. The album was owned by Jannis Izaak Risseeuw, who served as music master and conductor of the Parental School Band. As depicted in the...
Dates: 1910 - 1920

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Queens College (New York, N.Y.). College Relations 1
Queens College (New York, N.Y.). Department of Music 1
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Rathaus, Karol, 1895-1954 1
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State of New York Northeastern Queens Nature and Historical Preserve Commission 1
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