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John Reed papers, 1903-1967.

Title: John Reed papers, 1903-1967.

The papers of John Reed, the American journalist and revolutionary, including papers relating to his wife, writer Louise Bryant.

ArchivalResource: 31 boxes and 2 volumes (10.5 linear ft.)

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Communist Party of the United States of America. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1945.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1945.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the Communist Party of the U.S. writing in an official capacity for this party.

ArchivalResource: 61 items (169 leaves).

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Communist Party of the United States of America. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1945.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1945.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the Communist Party of the U.S. writing in an official capacity for this party.

ArchivalResource: 61 items (169 leaves).

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Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers, 1925-2001

Title: Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers

Simon W. (Si) Gerson, 1909-2004, was the longtime New York State, and later national legislative/political action director for the Communist Party, and was an advocate of proportional representation and ballot access for minor political parties, including in the 1980s-90s as a leader of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE). He served as Confidential Examiner to Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, 1938-40, managed Communist election campaigns (later writing a biography Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's First Communist Councilman), and organized activities in support of the Communist Party leaders indicted under the Smith Act, as was Gerson. In the 1950s he was executive editor of the Party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, and of its later successor, the Daily World. Along with his wife, Sophie Melvin Gerson, an organizer of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, he was a longtime resident of and community activist in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The papers contain clippings, correspondence with leading communists and political figures, published and unpublished writings including manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper columns, reviews and reports, a scrapbook and speeches, including materials relating to Cacchione's career and death, and to Gerson's several campaigns for public office, research notes and typescript drafts for several chapters of a never-completed book, "Do We Really Have Free Elections (ca. 1990)," a related manuscript by Adam Lapin, "Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The American Two Party System," Communist Party internal documents, including reports by leading figures, many relating to the communist political crises of 1956-58 and 1989-91, and minutes of and correspondence relating to COFOE and the publication Ballot Access News.

ArchivalResource: 15 Linear Feet in 30 manuscript boxes, 1 record carton, 1 flat box and 1 oversize folder in a shared flat box.

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Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009

Title: Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) is a Marxist-Leninist political organization that was founded in Chicago in 1919. The CPUSA played a pivotal role in many significant political and social movements of the 20th century. Its Party platform focused largely on working class issues such as fair wages and unemployment, civil rights for racial and ethnic minorities, civil liberties for politically persecuted communities, economic justice for the poor, the unemployed and for immigrants, and international peace efforts. The Party's work left an indelible mark in the arena of progressive politics and made it an influential force in the labor movement, particularly from the 1920s to the 1940s. Its varied political, social, and cultural initiatives attracted the support of a number of prominent artists, intellectuals, and activists, including Woody Guthrie, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Davis. Though the CPUSA's strength and size declined sharply following World War II and the advent of the Cold War and McCarthyism, it remains committed to socialism, peace, economic and social justice, and civil rights and liberties. The records of the Communist Party, USA provide vivid documentation of the organization's trajectory from its birth in 1919 to the early 2000s. The collection includes a diverse mix of correspondence, convention and conference materials, essays and manuscripts, internal discussion documents, reports, speech transcripts, research files, printed ephemera, clippings, legal documents, photographs, posters, audio tapes, films, videos, and a wealth of personal papers. Though materials from as early as 1892 can be found in the collection, the bulk of the records were created between 1950 and 1990. A more comprehensive record of the CPUSA's early 20th century activity can be found in the Files of the Communist Party of the USA in the Comintern Archives, 1919-1943 (Microfilm R-7548).

ArchivalResource: 480.5 Linear Feet, 3512 audiocassettes, 825 sound tape reels, 69 sound discs (cd), 612 videocassettes (vhs), 476 videocassettes (u-matic), 57 videocassettes (betacam), 62 videoreels (1/2 inch), 3 videoreels (1 inch), 7 videoreels (2 inch), 420 film reels, 34.51 Gigabytes on 15 CD-Rs, 20 floppy disks, 5 DVD-Rs, 1 zip disk, and 1 commercial CD

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Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968. Papers of Upton Sinclair [manuscript], 1905-1957.

Title: Papers of Upton Sinclair [manuscript], 1905-1957.

The papers contain a manuscript interview by Sinclair regarding "The Money Changers." Correspondence with friends, journalists, publishers and other authors concerns his life, work, religious beliefs, travels, publication abroad, dramatizations, and the Socialist movement. Sinclair discusses his early years, rejection of his books, his poverty, family, divorce, and his ideas on religion, sex, marriage, and monogamy. He also discusses his political ideas, the Socialist movement, the San Francisco Preparedness Parade, 1916, rejection of violence, talks with German Social Democratic leaders, and World War I and his conviction that Germany must lose. He also discusses his articles and books and their publication in the United States, England and Scandinavia, and criticizes other authors particularly Frank Harris's book on Oscar Wilde and his autobiography "My Lives and Loves." He provides information, suggestions and critical commentary to his biographer James L. Harte. In addition there is an exchange of letters between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and W.R. Browne regarding Sinclair, World War I and England's involvement in the war. There is also a manuscript by Romain Rolland "Declaration d'Independance de l'Esprit." An autograph and several clippings concerning Sinclair complete the collection.

ArchivalResource: 76 items.

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Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1918-2004

Title: Guide to the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1918-2004

The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Printed Ephemera Collection on the Communist Party of the United States of America is an artificial collection, collected and assembled by the Tamiment Library over the course of several decades. It consists of a wide selection of printed matter produced by the CPUSA from the 1920s up through 2004. This includes fliers, brochures, open letters, constitutions, pamphlets and other publications, offering both a general introduction to the CPUSA as well as an in depth look into the types of public material produced by the organization. Also included in the collection is material from various state and local parties, with a large portion coming from New York State and New York City. There are also materials from the CPUSA's various youth affiliates, the Young Communist League and the Young Workers Liberation League as well as from CPUSA antecedents and affiliated organizations. Lastly, the collection consists of pamphlets put out by CPUSA presses, including their paper, The Daily Worker, and such publishing houses as International Publishers, New Century Publishers, and Workers Library Publishers.

ArchivalResource: 11.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes)

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Guide to the Robert Minor Photographs, undated

Title: Guide to the Robert Minor Photographs, undated

Robert Minor (1884-1952) was a cartoonist, journalist, and prominent member of the Communist Party of the United States of America. The collection contains two photographs. One photograph depicts Antonio Lombardo, and the other appears to be Robert Minor.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 Linear Feet in 1 folder.

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Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Title: Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an orator, writer, union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, a Communist, and an activist born in New Hampshire in 1890. Influenced by her mother's political views, Elizabeth Flynn became a socialist and was active in the suffrage movement and Irish nationalism. She died in 1961 after leaving New York and moving Moscow in 1961. These papers span the years 1896 - 1964, the bulk covering Flynn's years in the Communist Party, 1937 - 1964. Contents include correspondence, scrapbooks, poetry, published and non-published articles, speeches, itineraries, clippings, programs, invitations and galley proofs for her prison memoir: 'The Alderson Story.' The Papers of her son Fred comprise series 5, subseries B and series 8, subseries D consists of material by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall pertaining to her book: 'Words on Fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,' 1988, Rutgers University Press. Series IX consists of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) U.S. government files on Flynn obtained by Rosalyn Baxandall and Helen Camp. NOTE: original collection, 8 boxes, and the first 4 of the 6 boxes of Series IX (Addendum) have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm copy.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet in 14 record cartons, 5 manuscript box, 1 oversize flat box, 1 flat box, 1 card box and 1 oversize folder in a shared box.

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Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV. Photographic Unit. Fifteenth International Brigade Photographic Unit photographs [graphic].

Title: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographic Unit photographs [graphic]. 1937-1938.

The collection consists of 1,832 images taken by the Unit from August 1937 to September 1938 and captures the activities of the battalions that made up the 15th International Brigade including the American Lincoln and Washington Battalions (commonly known as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade); the British Battalion; the Canadian MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion; the Dimitrov Battalion (volunteers from Yugoslavia); and the 24th Spanish Battalion (volunteers from Cuba). The images capture the daily life of the volunteers in combat, in the camps, and in the towns, villages, and across the rugged terrain where the Brigade trained and participated in the fighting. In addition, the collection documents ambulances and medical treatment, political assemblies, congresses, celebrations, the everyday activities of the Spanish people and the destruction caused by the fascist aerial bombardment. Among the many volunteers pictured are Alvah Bessie, Archie Brown, Joe Dallet, Robert Merriman, Edwin Rolfe, Saul Wellman, Milt Wolff, John Tisa, and George Watt. Also included are images of visiting dignitaries, journalists and observers including Earl Browder, American military attache Stephen Fuqua, Robert Minor, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Meyer Levin and Joseph North. There is also an image of presentation of a flag by Juventud Socialista Unificada (Unified Socialist Youth of the Spanish Communist Party).

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,000 photoprints and negatives : b&w.

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Minor, Robert, 1884-1952. Letter, 1923 Nov. 30, Chicago, to Art Young, New York.

Title: Letter, 1923 Nov. 30, Chicago, to Art Young, New York.

Concerns publication in The liberator of several of Young's drawings.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed, with holograph corrections.

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Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographs, August 1937-September 1938

Title: Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Photographs August 1937-September 1938

Under the supervision of Harry W. Randall, Jr, the Photographic Unit of the 15th International Brigade was charged with documenting the activities of the Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. The collection consists of 1,832 images taken by the Unit from August 1937 to September 1938 and captures the daily life of the volunteers in combat, in the camps, and in the towns, villages, and across the rugged terrain where the Brigade trained and participated in the fighting. In addition, the collection documents political assemblies, congresses, celebrations and the everyday activities of the Spanish populace.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear feet; (approximately 2,000 black and white negatives and prints)

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J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

Title: J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated

J. B. Matthews (1894-1966) was a Methodist missionary, college professor, author, lecturer, and prominent conservative spokesman. Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, statements, speeches, reprints, clippings, broadsides, newsletters, press releases, petitions, and other printed material, chiefly 1930-1969. The principal focus of the collection relates to the work and research of Matthews and his associates in the area of anti-communism, particularly in connection with Matthews' role as Director of Research for the Special Committee on Un-American Activities of the U.S. House of Representatives (1938-1945), Executive Director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Government Operations of the U.S. Senate (1953), and a consultant for John A. Clements Associates. Many of the organizations, newspapers, periodicals, and persons represented in the collection have various leftist, socialist, communist, radical, or pacifist (especially anti-Vietnam War) connections.Individuals represented in the files include Ralph Abernathy, Bella Abzug, Roy Cohn, John Foster Dulles, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Michael Harrington, Alger Hiss, J. Edgar Hoover, Jesse Jackson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King, Joseph Lash, Joseph McCarthy, Carl McIntire, Benjamin Mandel, Richard Nixon, Aristotle Onassis, Lee Harvey Oswald, Linus Pauling, Drew Pearson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Louis Untermeyer.

ArchivalResource: 479 Linear Feet; 307,000 Items

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Harry Weinberger papers, 1915-1944

Title: Harry Weinberger papers

The papers consist of correspondence, legal papers, notes, and other materials documenting Weinberger's career as a lawyer who specialized in civil liberties cases and, later in his career, copyright law. The one hundred and sixteen (116) case files include legal briefs, writs, and memoranda prepared by Weinberger and his staff, and similar material prepared by opposing attorneys. Correspondence files include letters with clients and individuals interested in a specific case. Weinberger's clients included: Alexander Berkman, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Emma Goldman, and Eugene O'Neill. The papers also include a small number of Weinberg's short stories and plays and correspondence with his nephew, Warren Weinberger. The Harry Weinberger Papers cover Weinberger's professional career from around 1915 until the early 1940s. In that time, Weinberger handled many types of cases, but he took a special interest in people whom he believed had been deprived of their civil liberties. As a result, Weinberger defended many aliens, immigrants, anarchists, and radicals. Two of Weinberger's most celebrated clients were the anarchists Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. Another client of Weinberger was the wealthy draft dodger, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. Most of Weinberger's clients were, however, neither famous nor wealthy. Many were referred to Weinberger by service agencies like the American Civil Liberties Union, the League for Amnesty of Political Prisoners, and the Worker's Defense Fund. In the later part of his career, Weinberger became an expert in copyright law, representing many writers, including Eugene O'Neill, in copyright and plagiarism suits. Weinberger corresponded with many prominent figures in connection with his legal work. His correspondents include Roger N. Baldwin, William A. Black, Alice Stone Blackwell, Harry M. Daugherty, Albert DeSilver, Elizabeth G. Flynn, Agnes Inglis, Daniel Kiefer, Robert M. LaFollette, Alvaro Obregon, Elmer Rice, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffans, Norman Thomas, Frank P. Walsh, Thomas E. Watson and Stephen S. Wise. The papers provide information on United States policies toward aliens, anarchists, and radicals in America during and after the first World War. The papers also contain material on United States immigration and deportation policies and important materials on Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman, Ricardo Flores Magon, and Tom Mooney. There is, however, very little personal material on Weinberger in the papers. Biographical information can be found in Weinberger's "A Rebel's Interrupted Autobiography" published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology in 1 October 1942

ArchivalResource: 21.50 linear ft.

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Minor, Robert, 1884-1952. Rober Minor papers, 1907-1952.

Title: Rober Minor papers, 1907-1952.

Manuscripts comprising notes, speeches, and articles, covering a wide range of social and political subjects and giving an extensive history of the Communist Party. Many of the manuscripts relate to his work as a theoretical writer for the Communist Party and the DAILY WORKER (New York). Subjects covered include the Garvey movement in 1924 and the League of Struggle for Negro Rights in the early 1930s; the re-orientation of the Communist Party in 1945-1947 with respect to the South and the Negro question generally (Minor became the Party's Southern representative in that period); the Party's general policies in the early 1930s and 1941-1942 when Minor was acting secretary in the absence of Earl Browder, and relating to the Party's policy toward the war following the German attack on the Soviet Union; postwar changes in the Party; the "Agrarian Movement;" and the Communist trials of 1949-1953. The extensive clipping file covers the entire domestic political scene and reflects the whole of Minor's career. These date from 1907 to his death, and contain considerable material on the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. Also, numerous pamphlets and ephemera relating to the Communist Party.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15,000 items (65 boxes)

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Ohio State University. Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Robert Minor 1884-1952 biographical file.

Title: Robert Minor 1884-1952 biographical file.

Biographical file may contain one or more of the following: "Biographical Registry" form filled out by the cartoonist including information about education, career history, awards, signature example, and family information; biographical essays or sketches of the cartoonist; articles by or about the cartoonist; examples of the cartoonist's work in the form of clippings or photocopies.

ArchivalResource: vertical file ; size varies.

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Miller family. Papers, 1836-1865.

Title: Papers, 1836-1865.

These papers consist of accounts, tax receipts, other legal documents, and letters of the Miller family of Gloucester County, Virginia. The majority of the collection concerns Mary S. Miller, widow of Robert Minor and [James] Miller, and her children. There is also a contract for land rent.

ArchivalResource: 52 leaves.

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Van Sickle, Leftist Pamphlet Collection, 1900-1993

Title: Van Sickle Leftist Pamphlet Collection 1900-1993

This collection represents the uncataloged pamphlets of the larger Van Sickle Collection at the University of Central Florida. Over 400 hundred pamphlets produced largely from the 1920s through the 1970s reflect communist and socialist ideologies and propaganda. Pamphlets from the United States, Soviet Union, Canada and many other geographic areas cover such topics as world pacifism and the banning of the atomic bomb, anti-racism, anti-Semitism, world labor movements and Marxist economics.

ArchivalResource: 3 Boxes;; 3.75 linear feet

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Minor, Robert, 1884-1952. My dearest Lydia : [letters from Tombs Prison].

Title: My dearest Lydia : [letters from Tombs Prison]. [1930]

ArchivalResource: 2 v. (367 leaves) ; 28 cm.

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Guide to the Steve Nelson Papers, 1937-1991

Title: Guide to the Steve Nelson Papers, 1937-1991

Steve Nelson (1903-1993) was a labor activist and organizer, former Communist Party official, Political Commissar in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and National Commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB). In the 1950s Nelson was convicted and imprisoned under the Pennsylvania Sedition Act and the Federal Smith Act. In 1957 he left the Communist Party following Khrushchev’s revelations of the atrocities that occurred under Stalin’s regime. Nelson authored two memoirs and an autobiography. Nelson’s papers reflect his political and personal activities including his participation in the Spanish Civil War, his six years of sedition trials and appeals, his writings, and his activities with VALB. His papers also include correspondence with friends and colleagues, which reflect the close interconnection between Nelson’s political and personal lives.

ArchivalResource: 12 Linear Feet in 11 record cartons and 1 oversize flat box

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Guide to the Harry Fisher Papers, 1937-1994

Title: Guide to the Harry Fisher Papers, 1937-1994

Harry Fisher (1911-2003) fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain and later served as an engineer gunner in the American Air Force during World War II. The collection consists chiefly of letters written to his family during the Spanish Civil War.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)

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John Barber papers

Title: John Barber papers

The microfilmed John Barber papers contain correspondence; sketches and 46 sketchbooks; a Jules Pascin sketchbook (1922); photogrpahs of Barber, Pascin, and Helen and John Sloan; personal documents; exhibition catalogs; and clippings. Among the correspondents are George Biddle, Stuart Davis, Maurice Becker, Morris Blackburn, Frederic Taubes, Robert Laurent, Emlen Etting, Duncan Phillips, Edith and Ira Glackens, Max Eastman, Robert Minor, Roland McKinney, Albert Werner, Will Durant, Art Young, H. L. Mencken, William B. Tholen, William C. Bullitt, and Ben Hecht.

ArchivalResource:

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Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Title: Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1896-1964

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an orator, writer, union organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, a Communist, and an activist born in New Hampshire in 1890. Influenced by her mother's political views, Elizabeth Flynn became a socialist and was active in the suffrage movement and Irish nationalism. She died in 1961 after leaving New York and moving Moscow in 1961. These papers span the years 1896 - 1964, the bulk covering Flynn's years in the Communist Party, 1937 - 1964. Contents include correspondence, scrapbooks, poetry, published and non-published articles, speeches, itineraries, clippings, programs, invitations and galley proofs for her prison memoir: 'The Alderson Story.' The Papers of her son Fred comprise series 5, subseries B and series 8, subseries D consists of material by Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall pertaining to her book: 'Words on Fire: the life and writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,' 1988, Rutgers University Press. Series IX consists of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) U.S. government files on Flynn obtained by Rosalyn Baxandall and Helen Camp. NOTE: original collection, 8 boxes, and the first 4 of the 6 boxes of Series IX (Addendum) have been microfilmed and researchers must use the microfilm copy.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 Linear Feet in 14 record cartons, 5 manuscript box, 1 oversize flat box, 1 flat box, 1 card box and 1 oversize folder in a shared box.

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Guide to the Sam Adams Darcy Papers, 1924-1985

Title: Guide to the Sam Adams Darcy Papers, 1924-1985

Sam Adams Darcy (1905-2005), born Samuel Dardeck in the Ukraine of Jewish background, was an organizer, orator, writer, a leading official of the CPUSA and an official in the Communist International. Darcy helped organize the first mass demonstration of unemployed in New York City, was chairperson of the Communist Party California during the 1934 San Francisco General Strike, and made an unsuccessful run for governor of California in 1934. In 1941, Darcy was imprisoned briefly for allegedly falsifying information on his voter registration form. He left the CPUSA in 1945. The papers contain correspondence, writings (unpublished and published), CPUSA internal documents, clippings, ephemera, photographs, and an oral history transcript. Best documented are Darcy's educational, electoral and labor activity, and intra-Party relationships and struggles.

ArchivalResource: 9 Linear Feet in 6 record cartons, 4 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize flat box, and 4 oversize folders.

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Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

Title: Guide to the Reference Center for Marxist Studies Pamphlet Collection, 1900-2004

The Reference Center for Marxist Studies (RCMS) was a radical library housed in the headquarters of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) in New York City. The Center was founded in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Its pamphlet collection consists of more than 10,000 pamphlets and includes nearly every pamphlet published by the CPUSA. It also includes pamphlets published by hundreds of organizations affiliated with or of interest to the CPUSA, and English language pamphlets published in the Soviet Union and other Communist countries. The pamphlets cover over 800 subject areas including: Communist Party activities throughout its history, anticommunism and the struggle against McCarthyism, the civil rights, labor and peace movements, the Spanish Civil War, anti-colonial and national liberation movements, and various Communist countries.

ArchivalResource: 48 Linear Feet (128 boxes)

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Photographs of Judge Robert Berkeley Minor and Robert Minor [manuscript], ca. 1928 and n.d.

Title: Photographs of Judge Robert Berkeley Minor and Robert Minor [manuscript], ca. 1928 and n.d.

Photograph of Judge Robert Berkeley Minor and two photographs of Robert Minor.

ArchivalResource: 3 photos.

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Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers, 1925-2001

Title: Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers

Simon W. (Si) Gerson, 1909-2004, was the longtime New York State, and later national legislative/political action director for the Communist Party, and was an advocate of proportional representation and ballot access for minor political parties, including in the 1980s-90s as a leader of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE). He served as Confidential Examiner to Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, 1938-40, managed Communist election campaigns (later writing a biography Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's First Communist Councilman), and organized activities in support of the Communist Party leaders indicted under the Smith Act, as was Gerson. In the 1950s he was executive editor of the Party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, and of its later successor, the Daily World. Along with his wife, Sophie Melvin Gerson, an organizer of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, he was a longtime resident of and community activist in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The papers contain clippings, correspondence with leading communists and political figures, published and unpublished writings including manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper columns, reviews and reports, a scrapbook and speeches, including materials relating to Cacchione's career and death, and to Gerson's several campaigns for public office, research notes and typescript drafts for several chapters of a never-completed book, "Do We Really Have Free Elections (ca. 1990)," a related manuscript by Adam Lapin, "Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The American Two Party System," Communist Party internal documents, including reports by leading figures, many relating to the communist political crises of 1956-58 and 1989-91, and minutes of and correspondence relating to COFOE and the publication Ballot Access News.

ArchivalResource: 15 Linear Feet in 30 manuscript boxes, 1 record carton, 1 flat box and 1 oversize folder in a shared flat box.

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Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937. [Editorial cartoon scrapbooks], 1900-1917

Title: [Editorial cartoon scrapbooks], 1900-1917

ArchivalResource: v. : chiefly ill. ; size varies

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Minor, Robert, 1884-1952. Robert Minor, member of Central Committee of Communist Party of the United States of America.

Title: Robert Minor, member of Central Committee of Communist Party of the United States of America. [between 1936 and 1939]

ArchivalResource: 4 leaves ; 28 cm.

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Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Cartoon Collection, 1928-2002

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Cartoon Collection, 1928-2002

The <i>Daily Worker</i> and <i>Daily World</i> Cartoon Collection contains a wide range of cartoons and sketches published and submitted for publication to the official organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), the <i>Daily Worker</i> (and its various later forms). The <i>Daily Worker's</i> editorial positions reflected the policies of the CPUSA. 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 frequencies 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 <i>People's World</i>. A number of different artists are represented in the collection, including: Fred Ellis, Eric (James Erickson), Hugo Gellert, Norman Goldberg, Ollie Harrington, Hal Kinkaid, Robert Minor, and Joseph Seymour, among numerous others. A large portion of the cartoons in the collection are original, signed drawings, but also present are newsprint copies and pre-press prints. The material in the collection ranges in date from the late 1920s up through the 2002, though is predominantly from the 1940s-1980s. The topics covered by the cartoons are as diverse as was the coverage of the <i>Daily Worker</i>. Focusing heavily on capitalism, civil rights, civil liberties, labor, and the Vietnam War, as well as caricatures of Presidents and other influential politicians, the cartoons provide a narrative for the major events of the 20th century, particularly those that effected the left-wing community in the US.

ArchivalResource: 18.75 Linear Feet in 6 records cartons, 1 manuscript box, and 9 oversize flat boxes.

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