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Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0030

Scope and Contents

Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and was a student at Queens College between 1960 and 1965. While at Queens College, Andrews spent the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia among a cohort of selected students who helped tutor and prepare local students for the reopening of public schools that fall, which were closed since 1959 in massive resistance to integration. Andrews describes a typical day in Farmville as a tutor, the failed media coverage of the project by Look Magazine, and how her participation in the Student Help Project informed her decisions in life thereafter.

Dates

  • 2020-10-23

Creator

Access

This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/r/8s4jm23w0w. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license. See license details at https://creativecommons.or g/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Biographical Note

Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) was born in 1943 and grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens. She graduated from Bryant High School and in 1960 started attending Queens College night classes while working during the day. After a year she matriculated fully into the College. As a Queens College student, Andrews became involved in the Student Help Project, tutoring school children in Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. She also attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 on the way back from Virginia to New York. In 1965 she graduated with a major in History and a minor in Education. At 22 years of age Andrews lived in India for 9 months with her husband who had received a Fulbright. Upon returning to the U.S. she taught history for three years at Long Island City High School in Queens. Andrews then moved to Washington D.C. and obtained her Master’s degree in Psychology from Catholic University in 1972. She went on to become a United States probation officer, supervising people convicted of federal crimes, writing pre-sentencing reports, and making recommendations for sentencing. She was only the fifth woman in the country to be promoted to Supervising U.S. Probation Officer. After spending two years at the Administrative Office of the Federal Courts as a Programs Specialist, she became the Chief U.S. Probation Officer for the Eastern District of Tennessee. At the time she was only the second woman to be appointed as a Chief. During her tenure she received the Director's Award for Outstanding Leadership. Andrews retired from her career as a probation officer in 2000; since then she has been working as a mitigation specialist on death penalty cases.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; 01:26:02

20.2 Megabytes

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Rosalind Andrews and Victoria Fernandez in October, 2020.

Related Materials

Correspondence, clipppings, and photographs related to her participation in both the Jamaica and Virginia Student Help Projects are documented in the Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Papers: https://qcarchives.libraryhost.com/repositories/2/resources/24

Physical Description

Single MP4 file totaling 20.2 MB and 1 hour and 26 minutes in duration.

Processing Information

Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens.

This interview was specifically collected for the Student Help: Lived Experience Project.

Creator

Title
Rosalind Andrews Oral History
Status
Completed
Author
Victoria Fernandez
Date
January 2021
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us