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Johnson, Andy, 1899-. Oral history interview with Andy and Hannah Johnson, Sept. 1968.

Title: Oral history interview with Andy and Hannah Johnson, Sept. 1968.

Johnson worked as a farmer and a miner and became active in the Communist Party. He talks about living and working in northern Minnesota and his political activities. His wife Hannah is present and is included in the interview and toward the end of the interview his brother, Arne Johnson, is interviewed.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings : 4 sound cassettes (90 min. each)Transcript : 76 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51720602 View

Irene Paull papers., 1934-1981.

Title: Irene Paull papers. 1934-1981.

Photocopied correspondence (1964-1966, 1972-1977, 1980?),literary notebooks (1958-1975), published works (1937-1981), typescripts of prose,poetry, and acting skits by Minnesota-born writer and political activist IrenePaull; her compiled collections of material on progressive politics and labormovements in Minnesota (undated and 1907-1959); and memorials or condolences for William Heikkila(1959-1960), Martin Mackie (1967), and Irene Paull (1981).

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Irene Paull papers., 1934-1981.

Title: Irene Paull papers. 1934-1981.

Photocopied correspondence (1964-1966, 1972-1977, 1980?),literary notebooks (1958-1975), published works (1937-1981), typescripts of prose,poetry, and acting skits by Minnesota-born writer and political activist IrenePaull; her compiled collections of material on progressive politics and labormovements in Minnesota (undated and 1907-1959); and memorials or condolences for William Heikkila(1959-1960), Martin Mackie (1967), and Irene Paull (1981).

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Meridel Le Sueur papers., 1902-1997.

Title: Meridel Le Sueur papers. 1902-1997.

Correspondence, literary journals, audio tapes, publishedwritings, published and unpublished manuscripts and fragments, publicity, radicalpublications, clippings, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials documentingthe life and career of Le Sueur, a writer, journalist, actress, feminist, andradical political activist, and her family.

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http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00323.xml View

Bernard, John T. (John Toussaint), 1893-1983. John Toussaint Bernard papers, 1934-1973.

Title: John Toussaint Bernard papers, 1934-1973.

Correspondence and clippings (mainly 1936-1956) on Bernard's activities as a labor union organizer, a participant in antifascist and civil liberties groups, and as U.S. congressman (Farmer-Labor Party) from Minnesota's eighth district (1937-1939). Includes material concerning his support of the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War, his lone vote against the Spanish arms embargo (1937), and his work with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee of the CIO (1937-1942) and with the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (1943-1954). Correspondents include Irene Paull, Jerry O'Connell, and Vito Marcantonio.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122615851 View

Le Sueur, Meridel. Meridel Le Sueur papers, 1902-1997.

Title: Meridel Le Sueur papers, 1902-1997.

Correspondence, literary journals, audio tapes, published writings, published and unpublished manuscripts and fragments, publicity, radical publications, clippings, photographs, and other miscellaneous materials documenting the life and career of Le Sueur, a writer, actress, feminist, and radical political activist, and her family. Le Sueur's audio tapes (1950s-1980s) contain interviews, music, and conversation with family and friends. In addition, the collection includes papers of Le Sueur's father, William Winston Wharton, her mother and stepfather, Marian and Arthur Le Sueur, and her daughters, Deborah Le Sueur and Rachel Tilsen, and their families. The correspondence, covering over 70 years of Le Sueur's life, contains letters from friends, publishers, admirers, and family, particularly her daughters, Rachel and Deborah. There is much information on family matters, her literary progress, and political affairs. The journals, which Le Sueur kept nearly her entire life, comprise 133 volumes, dating from her teenage years through the 1990s; they are the wellspring of much of her writing. Manuscripts in the collection include a sampling of the huge amounts of material sent to Meridel by other aspiring writers, in addition to her own work, both published and unpublished. Publications, clippings, programs, and other publicity provide information on Le Sueur's career and activities, and on the many political and literary organizations that interested her.

ArchivalResource: 48.0 cubic feet (47 boxes, 1 partial box, and 1 oversize folder).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313801547 View