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Stan Shaw Collection 

Stan Shaw Collection 

Creator Stan Shaw
Description Stan Shaw was Chairman of the Student Help Project at Queens College from January 1963 through January 1964. The Student Help Project organized Queens College students to provide free tutoring services to schoolchildren in South Jamaica, Queens (circa 1962-1968) and in Prince Edward County, Virginia (summer of 1963). In South Jamaica the volunteers assisted children who were below grade level. In Prince Edward County they tutored African American children who had been denied formal schooling since 1959, when the County shut down their public schools rather than enforce court ordered desegregation. Queens College Education professors Dr. Rachel Weddington and Dr. Sidney Simon coordinated these initiatives with Shaw and other students. As a result of this collaboration, by the fall of 1963 over 220 students had participated in the South Jamaica project and 16 students had spent 6 weeks tutoring in Prince Edward County. The collection contains newspaper and magazine articles, reports, photographs, press releases, and a diary documenting the Student Help Project in New York and Virginia.
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Date from 1963
Date to 1976
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size 1 linear foot
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Queens College (CUNY) Department of Special Collections and Archives
Repository address CUNY Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Queens, NY 11367-1597
Repository contact name Dr. Benjamin Alexander
Repository contact title
Repository contact email QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu
Repository contact phone (718) 997-3650
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Tutors and tutoring

o    Student Help Project

o    Shaw, Stan, 1943-

o    Queens College (New York, N.Y.)
Types o    Clippings

o    Diaries

o    Photographs

o    Press releases

o    Reports
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WRVA Radio Collection 

WRVA Radio Collection 

Creator WRVA Radio
Description The Library of Virginia’s WRVA Radio Collection covers three-quarters of a century, from the station’s founding to the end of the twentieth century. It includes a wide array of materials related to the history of WRVA, including incorporation files, memos, meeting minutes, FCC license renewal applications, and newsletters; materials about its programs and listener responses to its programs; information on specific employees and announcers such as Alden Aaroe, Bertha Hewlett, Tim Timberlake, and others; and publications promoting WRVA and the Richmond area market to advertisers. The collection also includes photographs; sound recordings; and numerous other documents and memorabilia items related to the station. The series of sound recordings included in the WRVA collection includes 637 CDs reformatted with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These recordings document an astonishing variety of programs, personalities, and events related to the radio station and its development. Popular musical programs and performers, including the Old Dominion Barn Dance and the Corn Cob Pipe Club, figure prominently in this collection, as do the station’s live reports and commentary on news events of local, state, national, and international significance between the 1930s and 1990s. Numerous special anniversary programs broadcast by the station provide a rich body of information on the station and its history, and feature synopses of important news events covered by WRVA throughout its history.
Call number none
Date from 1925
Date to 2000
Geographic school Virginia
Size ca. 48 cubic feet and 637 compact discs
Access restrictions yes/no no
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Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00565.xml;query=;
Repository Library of Virginia
Repository address 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219-8000
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Archives Reference Services
Repository contact email archdesk@lva.virginia.gov
Repository contact phone (804) 692-3888
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Radio broadcasting–Virginia
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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WRVA Radio Collection

WRVA Radio Collection 

Creator WRVA Radio
Description The Library of Virginia’s WRVA Radio Collection covers three-quarters of a century, from the station’s founding to the end of the twentieth century. It includes a wide array of materials related to the history of WRVA, including incorporation files, memos, meeting minutes, FCC license renewal applications, and newsletters; materials about its programs and listener responses to its programs; information on specific employees and announcers such as Alden Aaroe, Bertha Hewlett, Tim Timberlake, and others; and publications promoting WRVA and the Richmond area market to advertisers. The collection also includes photographs; sound recordings; and numerous other documents and memorabilia items related to the station. The series of sound recordings included in the WRVA collection includes 637 CDs reformatted with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These recordings document an astonishing variety of programs, personalities, and events related to the radio station and its development. Popular musical programs and performers, including the Old Dominion Barn Dance and the Corn Cob Pipe Club, figure prominently in this collection, as do the station’s live reports and commentary on news events of local, state, national, and international significance between the 1930s and 1990s. Numerous special anniversary programs broadcast by the station provide a rich body of information on the station and its history, and feature synopses of important news events covered by WRVA throughout its history.
Call number none
Date from 1925
Date to 2000
Geographic school Virginia
Size ca. 48 cubic feet and 637 compact discs
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Library of Virginia
Repository address 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219-8000
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Archives Reference Services
Repository contact email archdesk@lva.virginia.gov
Repository contact phone (804) 692-3888
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Radio broadcasting–Virginia
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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George Mason University Public Relations press releases 

George Mason University Public Relations press releases 

Creator George Mason University Office of University Relations
Description Contains information and recruitment on African-American students at George Mason University. Includes: Recruitment of black students to George Mason University By Andrew Evans(Box 4, Folder 55); George Mason University elects first black woman as S.G. President (Box 5, Folder 53); Information seminar, graduate program for blacks (Box 23, Folder 113).
Call number R0004
Date from 1966
Date to 1989
Geographic school Fairfax, VA
Size Unknown
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://sca.gmu.edu/finding_aids/gmuunivrelationspr.html
Repository George Mason University Libraries
Repository address Special Collection Research Center, Fenwick Library MS 2FL, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Repository contact name Brittney Falter
Repository contact title Research Services Coordinator, Special Collection Research Center
Repository contact email speccoll@gmu.edu
Repository contact phone (703) 993-2220
DoveRegion region6
Subjects o    African American students

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Universities and colleges–Public relations

o    George Mason University
Types Manuscripts