1media/2003-McCarthyismExhibit_058_thumb.jpg2024-10-09T07:32:42-07:00Queens College Special Collections and Archivese5d75124350046eec0e648a38e4b73292f02c4b0460991Headlines from 2003 exhibit on McCarthyism curated by Dorothy Pita and Larry Kaplan.plain2024-10-09T07:32:44-07:0040.736572222222,-73.81971111111120241009093007+000020241009093007+0000Queens College Special Collections and Archivese5d75124350046eec0e648a38e4b73292f02c4b0
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12024-10-08T10:02:57-07:00Restitution3plain2024-10-09T07:33:44-07:00In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the laws under which the three Queens College professors had been fired. In 1980, the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York urged action on their behalf, admitting that their dismissals were the result of the “shameful era of McCarthyism in America.” Two years later, New York City granted the three financial restitution. Oscar Shaft began adjunct teaching at Queens College in 1973. He donated his entire adjunct salary to establish a scholarship for incoming freshmen.
