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
School Boycott

This exhibition includes flyers promoting The School Boycott which occurred on February 3rd, 1964. It was organized by local New York City civil rights leaders, and members of the NAACP and CORE. More than 450,000 students boycotted their public [...]

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Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, Board of Higher Education, NYC Public Schools, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), High School, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Parents' Workshop for Equality, Protest, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Mississippi Freedom Summer

This exhibit consists of photographs and flyers highlighting the participation of Queens College student activists in the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. In particular, many of these students were involved in the Meridian Freedom School [...]

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Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), High School, James Forman, Joyce Brown, Mark and Betty Levy, Meridian Freedom School, Protest, Racial Injustice, Robert Moses, Roscoe Jones, Student Activism, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Queens College Civil Rights Archives

The Queens College Civil Rights Archive collects published and unpublished works relating to civil rights activities such as personal papers, community materials, organizational records, non-print materials, and artifacts. The archive, housed at [...]

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Time Period: 1946-1960 Municipal College Expansion
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Diversity, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Queens College

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