CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

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Student Help Project Timeline

The Student Help Project was a collective of Queens College student activists who volunteered to tutor schoolchildren in Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1963. The Student Help Project Timeline exhibits archival items donated by [...]

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Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Student Help Project Art Book

The Student Help Project Art Book was produced by Queens College graphic design students to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Student Help Project. The Art Book visualizes the legal struggle for desegregation and equal opportunity to quality [...]

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Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Three Who Died for Civil Rights

This exhibit contains items including articles, flyers and logs related to the murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney in Mississippi, 1964. Goodman was a student at Queens College at the time of his death. [...]

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Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Diversity, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Andrew Goodman, Civil Rights Movement, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Protest, Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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