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South Jamaica (New York, N.Y.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

Hikmah Abodunrin Oral History

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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

Jean L. Konzal Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0043
Scope and Contents Jean Konzal talks about her early life in growing up in Pomonok Queens - her parents were left leaning working class immigrants from Ukraine, and her aunt was in the communist party. She also discusses her experience as a Queens College student and her involvement with the Queens College house plans, which were social organizations at the school.Jean Konzal was 19 when she saw an ad in the QC student paper “The Signal” about the Student Help Project, and began tutoring kids in...
Dates: 2020-12-08

June Tauber Golden Oral History

 Collection
Identifier: QMP-0039
Scope and Contents June Tauber Golden is a graduate of Queens College Class of 1963 and in this interview, she recalls her involvement in both the Jamaica and Virginia Student Help Projects as a tutor. The Student Help Project was a student-led initiative to tutor young Black elementary school students in Jamaica, Queens. The Jamaica initiative of the Student Help Project engaged approximately 500 Queens College students who volunteered to tutor more than one thousand educationally disadvantaged and...
Dates: 2020-11-18

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...
Dates: 2020-10-23