Race relations

Scope and Contents In this interview, Helen Hendricks is interviewed by alumni Stan Shaw and Mike Wenger about her role as a College Office Assistant in Student Activities in the Dean of Students Office during the early to mid-1960s. Wenger and Shaw considered Hendricks a mentor and important behind-the-scenes supporter of civil rights activities they initiated, especially the Virginia Student Help Project, which involved tutoring children in Prince Edward County who had been locked out of the education system...

Abstract

James Forman was an important figure in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, serving as Executive Secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) between 1961-1966, and a life-long intellectual and activist. This collection includes copies of Forman's published works, FBI files Forman obtained through FOIA requests, and A/V materials documenting Forman's activism in the 1980s-1990s.

Scope and Contents In the first interview session, which took place on April 6th, 2021, Samuel Anderson and Obden Mondesir discussed Andersons’ early upbringing, exposure to both segregation and racism at a young age, education, and his career that lead to his contributions to the SEEK program at Queens College. Anderson moved several times during his youth, and spent time in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Long Island, Panama, and Connecticut. He attended Pratt Institute and then transferred to Lincoln University for...