{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/7m03x84b3v/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Jean Konzal Oral History"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/010/original/Aviary_QPLlogo_192x192.png?1578574261","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFull Interview Summary\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJean Konzal is a retired Early Childhood Education professor, author, and activist. As a Queens College student in the 60’s, she volunteered with the Student Help Project, an initiative that provided free tutoring services to under-served children in South Jamaica, Queens from 1962-1968. During the summer of 1963, Konzal was one of sixteen Queens College students who lived with black families in Prince Edward County, Virginia and tutored African American children who had been denied formal public education since 1959. Jean Konzal also participated in the 1963 March on Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJean Konzal talks about her early life growing up in Pomonok, Queens - her parents were left leaning working class immigrants from Ukraine, and her aunt was in the communist party. She also discusses her experience as a Queens College student and her involvement with the Queens College house plans, which were social organizations at the school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJean Konzal was 19 when she saw an ad in the QC student paper “The Signal” about the Student Help Project, and began tutoring kids in South Jamaica before the group went to rural Virginia to tutor children there. She talks about the activities \u0026amp; fundraising that the group did to support the project, how scared her mother was for her when she went south, what life was like for her while she was teaching in Virginia, being in the country the first time, and the connections she made with the children and the community in Virginia. Her experience with the Student Help Project was pivotal to her outlook on the world, and her career as a teacher.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJean Konzal about her teaching with the Student Help Group (00:58:56): “I would've said the learning goals were the more important, but in retrospect, I think for me, the most important was meeting the children and their families. And it's kind of a selfish way. It's what I gained out of it not what they gained out of it. When I came back, one of the things we did was to meet with different community groups and talk about our experiences and on one occasion after reading my very well thought out speech - feeling very proud of myself. A Black man came up to me and he said, you know, your job is in the white community, not the Black community. And I was just devastated. I felt like I had been really discounted all of the work that I had done. In retrospect he was right. I try to remember that now during the Black Lives Movement that it's not about me. You know the idea of listening rather than speaking resonates with me. 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As a Queens College student in the 60\u0026rsquo;s, she volunteered with the Student Help Project, an initiative that provided free tutoring services to under-served children in South Jamaica, Queens from 1962-1968. During the summer of 1963, Konzal was one of sixteen Queens College students who lived with black families in Prince Edward County, Virginia and tutored African American children who had been denied formal public education since 1959. Jean Konzal also participated in the 1963 March on Washington.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJean Konzal talks about her early life growing up in Pomonok, Queens - her parents were left leaning working class immigrants from Ukraine, and her aunt was in the communist party. 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