Michael Wenger Collection
| Creator | Michael Wenger |
| Description | The Michael Wenger Collection documents the Student Help Project and other activist activities on the Queens College campus in the 1960s. The Student Help Project was initiated by Queens College Students, including Michael Wenger, and Queens College Education Department professors, Dr. Rachel Weddington and Dr. Sidney Simon. This project brought tutoring services to underserved children in South Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, reports, press releases and other miscellanea documenting the Jamaica-Virginia Student Help Project, and Queens College student activism in the 1960s. |
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| Date from | 1963 |
| Date to | 1965 |
| Geographic school | Prince Edward County, VA |
| Size | 2 linear feet |
| Access restrictions yes/no | no |
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| Part Of larger collection yes/no | |
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| 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 |
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| 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 Queens College (New York, N.Y.) o Wenger, Michael, 1942- |
| Types | o Clippings
o Correspondence o Legal documents |