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Event: Thursday, December 9, 2021, 4 – 5PM EST<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Queens College is known for its involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, especially the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964. A year earlier, a lesser known, but no less important project took place, when 16 volunteers from the Queens College Student Help Project traveled to Prince Edward County, Virginia to tutor Black children who were shut out of public schools due to massive resistance to desegregation. There, they lent support to a long struggle for equal education dating back to the Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> Supreme Court decision in 1954 and local, student-led activism for better schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this presentation, primary sources from the archives will bring to life this important history, as documented through a year-long oral history initiative made possible by the Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights & Social Justice Archives Fellowship Program at the Queens College Library. Initiators\/alumni of the Student Help Project will also join the event for the Q and A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ANNIE TUMMINO<\/strong> is an assistant professor and head of Special Collections and Archives at the Queens College Library, where she manages over 5,000 linear feet of college records, personal papers, and rare books. She is particularly interested in preserving the social movement history of Queens College and connecting it to today\u2019s activists and students. She received a master\u2019s in library and information studies from Queens College in 2010 and a master\u2019s in maritime studies from SUNY Maritime College in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

VICTORIA FERNANDEZ<\/strong> is the museum coordinator at the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College CUNY, where she helps develop and revise exhibition content, instruct student programming, manage library and archival collections, and facilitate interactions with their Holocaust survivor support group. She graduated from Queens College in 2021 with a dual master\u2019s degree in history and library science (MLS\/MA) after receiving a BA in history and political science from the Macaulay Honors College at QC in 2018. She has held several positions within the field of archives, most recently serving as the 2020\u2013 2021 Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Civil Rights and Social Justice Archives Fellow at the Queens College Department of Special Collections and Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Advancement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thursday, December 9, 2021, 4 – 5PM EST<\/p>\n

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