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They would also venture onto the Queens College campus where he remembers a wooded area and a farm where John Bowne High School's farm was later developed.\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e01:27\u003c/span\u003e minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Neighborhood diversity\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWally Rosenthal remarks that growing up, his neighbors were largely of European descent. He considers the integration of Christian and Jewish families significant in the neighborhood since at the time, anti-Semitism was more out in the open. In 2011, the neighborhood is a much more international community, which is reflective of Queens as a whole. However, there are still not many African American families. When his parents died 25 years ago, he was living with his family in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was a predominantly African American and working-class community. When his brothers wanted him to move into his parents’ house, he and his wife had initial concerns that it was not diverse enough, but ended up moving there.\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e02:13\u003c/span\u003e minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3:\u003c/strong\u003e Activism and Queens College\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWally Rosenthal describes how he began his first semester at Queens College in September, 1964 in the wake of Freedom Summer. Three Civil Rights activists including Queens College student Andrew Goodman had been murdered in Mississippi. Students at Queens College did a fast in order to demand that the U.S. government and FBI investigate what happened, which one of Rosenthal's brothers participated in. Later, his brother Eric encouraged him to join the Student Help Project, a student-run organization that tutored kids in South Jamaica, Queens. Rosenthal describes how in 1960, his other brother Peter participated in sit-ins at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Flushing in solidarity with the sit-ins at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC.\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e03:02\u003c/span\u003e minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 4:\u003c/strong\u003e Brought up in a progressive home\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWally Rosenthal describes his parents as being politically and philosophically progressive. He characterizes himself as a \"red diaper baby.\" His mother was more active politically, identified as a Marxist and a member of the Communist Party in the U.S. Her parents were leftists in Tsarist Russia, and came to the U.S. in 1913.\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 01:13\u003c/span\u003e minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 5:\u003c/strong\u003e Protest and Violence\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWally Rosenthal recounts a memorable early experience he had with demonstrations. It was a protest against nuclear weapons, held in Duffy Square in Manhattan. When some protesters sat down on Broadway, Wally witnessed police charge them violently.\u003c/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e01:52\u003c/span\u003e minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\nSummary of Full Interview\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWalter \"Wally\" Rosenthal was born and raised in Flushing, Queens. In 1941, his parents moved from Jackson Heights to the home he grew up in. He moved with his family from Brooklyn back to his parent's old house in Flushing after they had passed away. His parents were politically progressive, although he was not aware of this as a child. In his teens, his mother brought him to an anti-nuclear demonstration in Manhattan, which had a great effect on him. His brothers both attended Queens College and were involved in the Civil Rights movement.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWally entered Queens College in 1964, following Freedom Summer when student Andrew Goodman was killed in Mississippi. He was very involved in anti-war activism while at school. He worked at the post office in Manhattan for 31 years. Now he is retired from the post office and teaches at York College part-time and volunteers with an immigrants' rights organization in Jackson Heights.\u003c/p\u003e (general)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/20678"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2011-03-19 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Tags"]},"value":{"en":["Queens College Alumni"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Wally Rosenthal (Interviewee)","Tess Hartman (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["Flushing and Jackson Heights, Queens and Brooklyn, NY (spatial)","1913-2011 (temporal)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (Primary)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Playing in Flushing\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; background: white;\"\u003eWally Rosenthal remembers growing up with a lot of other children to play with in his Flushing neighborhood. They played stoopball, boxball, stickball, tag, and touch football. They would also venture onto the Queens College campus where he remembers a wooded area and a farm where John Bowne High School's farm was later developed.\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 8.5pt; line-height: 115%; background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;\"\u003e01:27\u003c/span\u003e\u0026nbsp;minutes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Neighborhood diversity\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 115%; background: white;\"\u003eWally Rosenthal remarks that growing up, his neighbors were largely of European descent. He considers the integration of Christian and Jewish families significant in the neighborhood since at the time, anti-Semitism was more out in the open. 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