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Guide to the James S. Allen Papers, 1920-1994

Title: Guide to the James S. Allen Papers, 1920-1994

James S. Allen, born Sol Auerbach (1906-1986), was an organizer, Marxist scholar, writer and editor for the Communist Party, USA. He was a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and was in the first American student delegation to the Soviet Union. In 1928, he joined the Communist Party and began writing for the <i>Daily Worker</i>. He was a leading party organizer in the south in the early 1930s, and edited the <i>Labor Defender</i> and <i>Southern Worker</i>. In the late 1930's, he travelled to the Philippines where he helped to arrange the merger of the socialist and Communist parties. His books include: <i>The Negro Question in the United States</i> (1936), <i>Atomic Energy and Society</i> (1949), and <i>Organizing in the Depression South: A Communist's Memoir</i> (2001). From 1962 to 1972, Allen also headed International Publishers, the CPUSA publishing house. The collection includes his correspondence, Communist Party documents, photographs, and scrapbooks.

ArchivalResource: 8 Linear Feet in 6 record cartons, 2 manuscript boxes, and 2 folders in a flat-file drawer.

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