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Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1931.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1931.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from the members of this lawfirm, which agreed to defend the seven members of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners that formed the Dreiser Committee. This firm also consulted on the Famous Players-Lasky suit.

ArchivalResource: 7 items (24 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155898077 View

National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1937.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1931-1937.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the Nat. Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.

ArchivalResource: 146 items (292 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155892561 View

Black Panther printed ephemera, ca., 1966-2006.

Title: Black Panther printed ephemera, ca. 1966-2006.

Printed ephemera largely from Black Panther Party chapters in Philadelphia (Pa.), New Haven (Conn.), and New York (N.Y.).

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02065/catalog View

Roscoe Pound Papers

Title: Roscoe Pound Papers

Correspondence, writings, speeches, lectures, teaching notes, reports, minutes of meetings, legal briefs, scientific drawings, pamphlets and other printed material, newspaper clippings, maps, photos, memorabilie, miscellaneous honorary degrees, and other papers, chiefly 1910-1964. Includes material pertaining to Pound's participation in the Boston and Cleveland crime surveys (1920's), as a member of the National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement or Wickersham Commission (1929-1931), as a member of the American Bar Association and with various Masonic chapters, and as advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Nanking, China (1940's). Also two typed, bound journals recounting camping trips in West Virginia and to Civil War battlefields (1898, 1912-1917).

ArchivalResource: 1 collection (257 Boxes, 14 Paige boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990006015990203941/catalog View

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

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/matthews/ View

Hirsch, Alfred, 1908- . Alfred Hirsch oral history interview, 1982.

Title: Alfred Hirsch oral history interview, 1982.

An oral history interview by Stanley Mallach with Alfred Hirsch, a labor newspaper journalist who was editor of the CIO News (Wisconsin) from August 1942 to March 1944, conducted on November 8 and 18 and December 13, 1982 in Brookfield, Wisconsin. The interview covers Hirsch's early life and education; his work with the International Labor Defense, the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners, and the Sunday Worker; his affiliation with the Cafeteria Employees Union and his editorship of the Cafeteria Call; and his editorship of the CIO News.

ArchivalResource: 7 audio cassette tapes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30541556 View

Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Title: Paul Green Papers, 1880-1992

Paul Eliot Green (1894-1981) of Chapel Hill, N.C., was an author, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, and humanitarian. This collection contains material documenting many facets of Green's life and work, material relating to the life and work of his wife, Elizabeth Lay Green, and numerous items relating to members of the Greens' immediate and extended family. Paul Green's work as a dramatist and writer is documented in his professional correspondence files (circa 34,400 items); by extensive files on his including background material, drafts, musical scores, and business records; and by drafts of poems, essays, and novels by Green. Also included are yearly diaries (1917-1980), photographs, tape recordings, and appointment books. Correspondents include Sherwood Anderson, James Boyd, Erskine Caldwell, William T. Couch, Jonathan Daniels, Donald Davidson, John Ehle, Caroline Gordon, Frank Porter Graham, John Howard Griffin, Tyrone Guthrie, Dubose Heyward, Noel Houston, Langston Hughes, Gerald W. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Frederick Koch, Lotte Lenya, H. L. Mencken, Howard Odum, Clarence Poe, Carl Sandburg, Betty Smith, Lamar Stringfield, Allen Tate, Kurt Weil, Orson Welles, and Richard Wright, among many others. Green's associations with various theater, cultural, and humanitarian organizations in North Carolina and elsewhere are extensively documented. Correspondence and other materials show his opinions on such issues as lynching, capital punishment, nationalism, communism, race relations, religion, and the Vietnamese, Korean, and First and Second World Wars. Also included are a considerable number of photographs relating to Green's family and to his work, and financial records. symphonic dramas,

ArchivalResource: 195 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 111,500 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03693/ View

Marshall, George, 1904-2000. George Marshall papers, 1933-1955.

Title: George Marshall papers, 1933-1955.

The collection documents George Marshall's involvement in the 1940s with civil rights issues, his legal defense for a contempt citation from the House Un-American Activities Committee, and his management of the Robert Marshall Foundation's grant-making program. Samplings of his correspondence and writings during that period are grouped under Personal papers. His Contempt of Congress files constitute a densely documented archive on the use of subpoena power and contempt citations, and on legal and political opposition to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. His National Federation for Constitutional Liberties files are organized into 13 subseries: Administrative; Action Letters; Conferences and Testimonial Dinners; Activities, including an emergency campaign, The Menace of the F.B.I.," chaired by Franz Boas (1940), and a campaign in favor of federal legislation for a voting program for absentee soldiers; Fair Employment Practice Committee; Labor; Poll Tax; Legal Cases; Discrimination; Anti-Semitism; HUAC, which subdivides into Dies Committee and Rankin Committee files, Correspondence and Printed Matter; and Publications. Marshall's Civil Rights Congress and CRC Bail Fund files comprise the following subseries: Administrative, Conferences, Legal Cases, Subject Files and Printed Matter. Outstanding case files include the Columbia, Tennessee Riot of 1946, the German Communist Gerhart Eisler, Willie McGee, the Martinsville 7 and the Trenton Six. Other organizations in the collection include the International Labor Defense Fund; the American League for Peace and Democracy; the American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom, chaired by Franz Boas; the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners; the Contributors' Information Service founded by Corliss Lamont, and the Council on African Affairs. Correspondents include Joseph Gelders, Dashiell Hammett, Max Yergan, Charles Lafollette and Louis Burnham. The Robert Marshall Foundation awarded grants to trade-unions and labor advocacy groups, progressive research groups and schools, alternative newspapers and civil rights organizations. Its files consist for the most part of correspondence between George Marshall and the funded groups, grant proposals and grant tracking sheets, activity reports, and general information about the organizations involved.

ArchivalResource: 13.5 lin. ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433579711 View

National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1931-1939, n.d.

Title: Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1931-1939, n.d.

The National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners was one of the many liberal causes supported by Carl Zigrosser. Theodore Dreiser was one of the organizers. The Committee rallied behind the Scottsboro Boys, the Harlan County Miners, labor strikers in Detroit and other causes. Included are circular letters, fund raising and charity event letters, minutes from meetings and membership lists.

ArchivalResource: 27 items (49 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155902399 View

Associated Press. Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1940.

Title: Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser, 1930-1940.

Correspondence with Theodore Dreiser from various members of the Associated Press. Includes correspondence sent by the AP to Dreiser while he was under the auspices of the National Committee For the Defense of Political Prisoners.

ArchivalResource: 12 items (17 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155891597 View