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Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.). Records and indexes, 1931-1958 (bulk 1944-1955).

Title: Records and indexes, 1931-1958 (bulk 1944-1955).

Series I principally consists of Jefferson School materials, but also contains some material from the Workers School and from the Communist Party, and includes course outlines and related readings, bibliographies, pamphlets published by the school, unpublished typescripts, correspondence and unpublished writings of Henry Black, speeches by William Z. Foster, including several given along with William F. Dunne in 1931 at the Workers School's National Training School (for Communist Party cadre), student scrapbooks (steel strike, 1949), pamphlets and briefs concerning the Subversive Activities Control Board's decision to list the school as a Communist-front organization, and a file of Communist Party Farm Commission minutes and other documents from 1946. The authored pamphlets include works by Herbert Aptheker, Howard Selsam and Doxey A. Wilkerson. Unpublished writings include Henry Black's book-length Fundamentals of Subject Cataloging, A Guide to Marxist Studies : A Bibliographical Introduction, by the editorial board of Science & Society, and The Seattle General Strike of 1919, an apparently contemporaneous participants' account. There is also an incomplete set of the Library Service to Labor Newsletter (ALA), 1949-1954.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear ft. (3 boxes)

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Selsam, Howard, 1903-. Papers, [ca. 1935]-1972.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1935]-1972.

Correspondence, manuscripts, note cards, and printed material of Selsam. Correspondents include Justice Hugo Black, W.E.B. Dubois, Waldo Frank, Rockwell Kent, and Corliss Lamont. The collection contains several manuscript and proof materials for several of Selsam's books and numerous periodical articles, as well as note cards on philosophers and philosophies. Also, a subject file of Selsam's notes and areas of interest, and assorted printed and biographical material.

ArchivalResource: ca. 6,000 items (11 boxes)

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time the paper also attempted to speak to the broad left-wing community in the United States that included labor, civil rights, and peace activists, with stories covering a wide range of events, organizations and individuals in the United States and around the world. As a daily newspaper, it covered the major stories of the twentieth century. However, the paper always placed an emphasis on radical social movements, social and economic conditions particularly in working class and minority communities, poverty, labor struggles, racial discrimination, right wing extremism with an emphasis on fascist and Nazi movements, and of course the Soviet Union and the world-wide Communist movement. The paper has had a succession of names and has been published in varying frequences between daily to weekly over the course of its existence. In 2010 it ceased print publication and became an electronic, online-only, weekly publication titled the People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

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George Sarton additional papers, 1901-1956

Title: George Sarton additional papers

Primarily correspondence of historian of science and Harvard professor George Sarton with professional colleagues about the journal Isis.

ArchivalResource: 45 boxes (23 linear ft.)

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Studies on the Left. Records, 1959-1967.

Title: Records, 1959-1967.

Records of a socialist journal whose editorial focus included the social and natural sciences, literature, and the arts.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 c.f. (15 archives boxes) and.1 reel of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122417881 View

Herbert Aptheker Papers, 1842-1999, (bulk 1934-1994)

Title: Herbert Aptheker Papers, 1842-1999, (bulk 1934-1994)

ArchivalResource: 103

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Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.). Records [microform], 1942-1956.

Title: Records [microform], 1942-1956.

Records of a Marxist adult education center (1944-1956) in New York City mainly concerning its listing by the Subversive Activities Control Board as a communist front.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122416789 View

Guide to the Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.) Records and Indexes, 1931-1958

Title: Guide to the Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.) Records and Indexes, 1931-1958

The Jefferson School of Social Science (1943-1956) was a Marxist adult education institute in New York City associated with the Communist Party, USA. Among the faculty were a number of leftist academics dismissed from the City University of New York, including the school's director, Howard Selsam. It had as many as 5000 students enrolled per term, but the Subversive Activities Control Board forced its closing in 1956. The school published course-related pamphlets and its Librarian, Henry Black, accumulated a 30,000 volume library. The collection consists of Jefferson School materials, course outlines and related readings, bibliographies, pamphlets published by the school, unpublished typescripts, and material from the Workers School and from the Communist Party. It also includes the original indexes to the Jefferson School Library's periodical and pamphlet holdings.

ArchivalResource: 8 Linear Feet (3 boxes and 11 card trays)

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