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Civil rights movement

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Sid Simon Photographs

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0063
Abstract Sid Simon was the Queens College professor and faculty advisor for the student groups who wanted to volunteer in civil rights initiatives in the South. In 1965, Simon traveled twice to Mississippi to help rebuild churches that were burned down by the Ku Klux Klan. The first group traveled in February; the second during Easter recess. The photos in this collection depict students participating in the February construction projects, as well as scenes of the region in which the volunteers...
Dates: 1965
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Sid Simon Photographs

Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0023
Scope and Contents Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger discuss their experience initiating, coordinating, and participating in the Virginia Student Help Project and the Jamaica Student Help Project of Queens College in the early to mid-1960s. The Virginia Student Help Project was an intensive education effort during the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia where public schools were closed for five years in massive resistance to integration. The Jamaica Student Help Project took place closer to home....
Dates: 2020-07-15
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Stan Shaw and Michael Wenger Oral History

Stan Shaw Papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SCA-0064
Abstract Stan Shaw was Chairman of the Student Help Project at Queens College from January 1963 through January 1964. The Student Help Project provided free tutoring services to schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens (circa 1962-1968) and Prince Edward County, Virginia (summer of 1963). In South Jamaica, Queens College volunteers assisted children functioning below grade level. In Prince Edward County, they tutored African American children who had been denied formal schooling since 1959, when...
Dates: 1963-1976
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Stan Shaw Papers

Susan Nichols Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1960-1989
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Susan Nichols Papers

Waldo Jeff Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0038
Abstract

This oral history was conducted by Obden Modesir (interviewer) and Waldo Jeff (interviewee) in July and August 2019. In this interview, Waldo Jeff talks about his time as one of the first counselors of Queens College's SEEK program, his path to New York City in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and his involvelment in civil rights movements in both the Deep South and the North.

Dates: 2019-07-25 - 2019-08-20
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Waldo Jeff Oral History

Wally Rosenthal Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0002
Scope and Contents

This interview covers topics such as growing up in Flushing in the 1950s; being brought up in a leftist/progressive home; civil rights movement activities he and his older brothers participated in at Queens College and in Flushing in the early to mid-1960s; and later activism in which Rosenthal was a participant.

Dates: 2011-03-11
Found in: Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives / Wally Rosenthal Oral History
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