The Queens College Civil Rights Archives collects personal papers, community materials, organizational records, non-print materials, and artifacts of civil rights activists. The collections are particularly strong in documenting the civil rights work by Queens College students during the early 1960s. The Civil Rights Archive is an active participant in its communities, working with students and alumni of Queens College, local schools, and the city at large.
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Jean L Konzal Papers
As a Queens College student, Jean Leanore Konzal, née Stein, became a volunteer with the Student Help Project, an initiative that provided free tutoring services to under-served children in South Jamaica, Queens (circa 1962-1968). During the summer of 1963, sixteen members of the project, including Konzal, travelled to Farmville, Virginia, to…
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Supplementary Fact Sheet
A fact sheet distributed by the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee in response to the fact sheet distributed by President McMurray
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