Communism in education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Oscar Shaftel Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SCA-0052
Abstract
The Oscar Shaftel papers contains correspondence, flyers, press clippings, memos, press releases, transcripts of testimony, and subject files documenting student activism at
Queens College in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the effect of McCarthyism on academic freedom in New York State. Oscar Shaftel, one of the original faculty members at
Queens College, was fired in 1953 under Section 903 of the New York City Charter for refusing to testify in front of the Senate Internal Security...
Dates:
1932 - 2009
