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Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980. William Lorenzo Patterson papers, 1919-1979 (bulk, mid-1950s-1979).

Title: William Lorenzo Patterson papers, 1919-1979 (bulk, mid-1950s-1979).

Contains correspondence, printed materials, writings and clippings, law cases he worked on through the Communist Party U.S.A. and the International Labor Defense; diaries of travels to Eastern Europe, China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union; birthday tributes; drafts and galleys of his autobiography, "The Man Who Cried Genocide: An Autobiography." Also contains correspondence with his third wife, Louise Thompson Patterson, their daughter, Mary Lou, and fellow activist leaders; writings on race relations, social injustices, and political activism of various individuals and organizations, including his own activism. Drafts of articles, publications, and the original petition (1951) presented to the United Nations by Paul Robeson and Patterson ("We Charge Genocide: The Crime of the Government"); substantial amount of correpsondence documenting Patterson's imprisonment in New York and Connecticut when he was charged with contempt of Congress in 1954. Organizations and topics represented include: the National Negro Congress, the Wilmington Ten Case, and civil liberties. Persons represented include: Angela Davis, Claude M. Lightfoot, the Martinsville Seven (and the three cases of Davis, Lightfoot and the Martinsville Seven), W.E.B. DuBois, and Benjamin J. Davis. Correspondents include: Herbert Aptheker, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Dr. Carlton Goodlett, Hosea Hudson, Genna Rae McNeil, Toni Morrison, P.L. Prattis, J.A. Rogers, Charles Wright, and the Patterson Defense Committee.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 linear ft. (32 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/729372659 View

Patterson, Louise Thompson. Louise Thompson Patterson papers, 1909-1996.

Title: Louise Thompson Patterson papers, 1909-1996.

The Louise Thompson Patterson papers consist of subject files, correspondence, Langston Hughes materials, William L. Patterson papers, personal papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The earliest original items include a photograph of Louise, ca. 1909, and a letter from her mother, written in 1917. The most recent items are dated from the early 1990s. The bulk of the collection dates from the early 1930s to the early 1990s, and provides a relatively complete account of Louise's life, interests, and pursuits.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet (33 boxes, 3 OP, and 1 BV)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123402123 View

Patterson, Louise Thompson. Louise Thompson Patterson papers, 1909-1996.

Title: Louise Thompson Patterson papers, 1909-1996.

The Louise Thompson Patterson papers consist of subject files, correspondence, Langston Hughes materials, William L. Patterson papers, personal papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials. The earliest original items include a photograph of Louise, ca. 1909, and a letter from her mother, written in 1917. The most recent items are dated from the early 1990s. The bulk of the collection dates from the early 1930s to the early 1990s, and provides a relatively complete account of Louise's life, interests, and pursuits.

ArchivalResource: 17.5 linear feet (33 boxes, 3 OP, and 1 BV)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123402123 View

Patterson, Louise L. A history of "The Hound & horn".

Title: A history of "The Hound & horn". 1948.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56164373 View

Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

Title: Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001

The official organ of the Communist Party, USA, the Daily Worker's editorial positions reflected the policies of the Communist Party. At the same time 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 frequences 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 People's World. The bulk of the collection consists of printed photographic images produced through a variety of processes, collected by the photography editors of the Daily Worker and its successor newspapers as a means of maintaining an organized collection of images for use in publication. Images of many important people, groups and events associated with the CPUSA and the American Left are present in the collection, as well as images of a wide variety of people, subjects and events not explicitly linked with the CPUSA or Left politics.

ArchivalResource: 227 Linear Feet in 226 record cartons and 2 oversized boxes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/photos_223/photos_223.html View

Childress, Alice. Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997.

Title: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997.

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman. The Professional Series consists of correspondence, programs, financial documents, flyers, newsletters, broadsides, contracts, and reviews representing Childress as an actress, writer and speaker. There is a file for the American Negro Theatre's "Anna Lucasta," as well as files for other productions in which Childress acted including "The Cool World," "The Emperor's Clothes," "Natural Man," and "The World of Sholem Aleichem," among others. There are also files for associations and committees, including a file for the "National Ad Hoc Committee to End the Crimes Against Paul Robeson," as well as interviews, critical papers, a dissertation and sketches written about Childress, her writing and her influence on the work of contemporary writers. A significant amount of correspondence delineated into six subseries arranged chronologically: Publishers and Agents, Awards, Conferences, Speaking Engagements, Alphabetical, and General, includes invitations for speaking engagements, letters of appreciation, requests from playhouses and colleges to perform her plays and requests for biographical information. The largest and most substantive series, Writings, contains the manuscripts for nearly every published book and play script written by Childress. The series is divided into six subseries (by genre) and begins with Childress's best-known works including "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich," "Wedding Band," "Trouble in Mind," and "Moms: A Praise Play for a Black Comedian." The subseries represented are: Children's Books; Novels; Play Scripts, Screenplays and Teleplays; Fiction and Non-Fiction; (Columns, Editorial work, Monologues, Non-fiction, Short Stories, and Speeches); Other Writings (Poetry, Songs, and Research Notes) and Other Authors. This series features an array of manuscript drafts, reviews, fan mail, teacher's critical guides, research notes, manuscript scores (for her musicals), galleys, publicity information, letters, contracts, outlines, programs, flyers, and clippings. Many of the manuscripts have been heavily edited by Childress.

ArchivalResource: 17.1 linear ft. (50 record cartons)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122531836 View

Guide to the Oral History of the American Left Collection, 1940-2011

Title: Guide to the Oral History of the American Left Collection, 1940-2011

The Tamiment Library at New York University established the Oral History of the American Left in 1976 in order to collect and preserve the memories of veteran activists. These interviews describe seven decades of Left politics from the 1910s through the 1970s. They document the full spectrum of left politics in the twentieth century, including socialism, Communism, anarchism, Trotskyism, and the New Left. There are interviews with both leaders and rank-and-file activists.

ArchivalResource: 30 Linear Feet in 11 record cartons and 19 compact disk boxes.

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/oh_002/oh_002.html View

Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Oral History Collection, 1962 - 1992

Title: Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Oral History Collection, 1962 - 1992

The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), founded in 1919 by members of the left wing of the Socialist Party USA, played an important role in the labor movement, particularly in the building of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, in struggles for civil rights for African Americans, while its cultural initiatives attracted a number of prominent artists and intellectuals, and its struggles to attain and maintain its legality were an important chapter in the history of U.S. civil liberties. The collection contains interviews with 41 Communist Party leaders and activists, including several founding members. The bulk of the interviews were conducted during the 1980s by Mary Licht, then chair of the Party's History Commission. Interviews with African American and Jewish Party members comprise the majority of the collection.

ArchivalResource: 1.5 Linear Feet In 1 record carton and 2 cassette boxes, 114 sound discs (cd) in 2 cassette boxes, 41 interviews on 94 cassettes

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/oh_065/oh_065.html View

Louise Patterson scrapbook, 1915-1925.

Title: Louise Patterson scrapbook, 1915-1925.

This scrapbook was created by Miss Louise Patterson, daughter of Mrs. Louise Hillard Patterson and student at Coronado High School. Originally from Baltimore, this mother and daughter resided at Coronado Beach and were both prominent local socialites. Miss Patterson's scrapbook documents life in high society from 1915 to 1925, and includes numerous invitations to bridge teas and other social functions from other San Diego socialites of the time. A large number of elaborate invitations to costume balls, dances, suppers, and teas from "the management of the Hotel del Coronado" are present, including invitations to the 1917 Black and White Ball and the 1917 Ball of the Arabian Nights. Other items include theatre programs from the Isis, Strand, Spreckels, and Cabrillo Theatres, programs from events at the Point Loma Theosophical Headquarters, calling cards, photographs, and tickets to Expositions. Nearly every item is annotated with attendees' names or short descriptions.

ArchivalResource: 0.77 linear feet

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/246707974 View

Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997

Title: Alice Childress papers 1937-1997

The Alice Childress papers document Alice Childress's career as a writer and actress, and her activities in the theatre for five decades in New York City. The Personal Papers series includes correspondence, an oral history conducted by Ann Shockley, Childress's FBI file, diaries, calendars, interviews, educational materials, family letters, files for her two husbands, and biographical information about Childress. Significant correspondents include writers Kay Bourne, Harold (Hal) Courlander and Susan Koppleman.

ArchivalResource: 17.1 linear ft. (50 record cartons)

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20917 View