Student Help Project – Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE)

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
Access restrictions
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
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 Queens College (New York, N.Y.) o Wenger, Michael, 1942-
Types	o Clippings o Correspondence o Legal documents

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