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New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate Seditious Activities. Suspected radical propaganda file, [ca. 1890-1919].

Title: Suspected radical propaganda file, [ca. 1890-1919].

This series consists of an important collection of propaganda materials gathered by the committee during its investigation of radical individuals and organizations in the years following World War I. The series contains approximately 1,500 printed items, including 1,200 English and foreign language pamphlets. This collection is a significant resource for examining the development of socialist thought and action during the early part of the century.

ArchivalResource: 10.9 cu. ft.Copies: 31 microfilm reels; 35mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83966227 View

New York Bureau of Legal Advice. Records, 1917-1919.

Title: Records, 1917-1919.

The records contain correspondence, office files, case histories, clippings, and press releases relating to selective service exemption, draft evasion, conscientious objector status, military discharge, desertion, amnesty, civil liberties and deportation. Persons represented include Charles Recht, lawyer, who did much of the bureau's legal work and Fannie M. Witherspoon, secretary. Prominent correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, of National Civil Liberties Bureau, Ella Reeve (Mother) Bloor, Albert DeSilver, M. Eleanor Fitzgerald of the League for the Amnesty of Political Prisoners and Walter Nelles.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82511651 View

Recht, Charles. Papers, 1907-1976.

Title: Papers, 1907-1976.

The brief Biographical series contains some personal correspondence, memorabilia, and obituaries. The bulk of the collection consists of Recht's unpublished writings, including A World to Win, an autobiography (along with several autobiographical fragments) covering Recht's life through the early 1930s, including his travels throughout the Soviet Union, Selector H. One, a social-satirical historical science fiction novel, an untitled and incomplete novel largely about "Ernest Strohman," an immigrant of Bohemian origin, various poems, two untitled plays dealing with Jewish history, and an early (1907) pamphlet-length non-fiction manuscript, The Bohemian in America. The published writings consist of several articles dealing with civil rights and Jewish history.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58780204 View