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Canafax, Caroline. Caroline Canafax papers, 1952-2001.

Title: Caroline Canafax papers, 1952-2001.

The Caroline Canafax papers contain materials relating to political causes in which she was interested. The collection includes significant documentation on the Morton Sobell espionage case, together with minutes and related material from Canafax's leadership role in the Seattle branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Also included are copies of the Pacific Vision newsletter, as well as a taped commentary regarding her experiences on a Christians for Disarmament tour of Demark and West Germany.

ArchivalResource: 1.21 cubic feet (2 boxes)

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Annette T. Rubinstein Papers, Bulk, 1946-1975, 1937-2007

Title: Annette T. Rubinstein Papers Bulk, 1946-1975 1937-2007

Annette T. (Teta) Rubinstein was a Marxist educator, editor, writer, literary critic, and political activist born in New York in 1910. Among her numerous endeavors, she briefly taught philosophy at New York University, was Vice-Chairman for New York in the American Labor Party, was a teacher, owner and principal of the Robert Lewis Stevenson School, served as the Executive Secretary of the Committee for the Care of Young Children in Wartime, and was professor of English and American Literature at the Beijing Foreign Studies University. The collection includes biographical materials, correspondence and documentation of her educational and political activities.

ArchivalResource: 6.0 linear feet; in six record cartons.

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Rubinstein, Annette T. (Annette Teta), 1910-2007. Papers, 1937-1994 (bulk 1946-1975).

Title: Papers, 1937-1994 (bulk 1946-1975).

This collection contains correspondence (domestic, foreign, lecture tours), published and unpublished writings (articles, memoirs, reviews), and clippings, ephemera and internal documents (political activities and topics). Principal and/or prominent correspondents include James Aronson, Cedric Belfrage, W. E. B. DuBois, Charles Humboldt, John Howard Lawson, Harry Magdoff, Jean Rubenstein, Pete Seeger, Helen and Morton Sobell, Willard Uphaus, Dr. Harry F. Ward, and Doxey and Yolanda Wilkerson.

ArchivalResource: 5.0 linear ft.

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Mimi Diamond Photographs, undated

Title: Mimi Diamond Photographs undated

Miriam “Mimi” Diamond is an activist in variety of left-wing politics based in New York City. She was a member of the Women for Racial and Economic Equality (WREE), an organization created by the Communist Party USA during the 1970s. This collection contains black-and-white photographic prints concerning public reaction to Soviet espionage trials held in the United States during the middle of the 20th century. Materials in this collection document the early lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the espionage trial of engineer Morton Sobell, and the public campaign asserting Sobell’s innocence. Multiple photographs feature North Dakota Senator William Langer, figures active in Sobell's defense, and Morton's wife, Helen Sobell. The collection also contains a photograph given to New York politician Miriam Friedlander inscribed by activist, lawyer, and Congresswoman Bella Abzug.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 linear feet; in 1 manuscript box

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Helen Sobell Autobiographical Typescript: "Double Exposure", undated

Title: Helen Sobell Autobiographical Typescript: "Double Exposure" undated

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet; (1 box)

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Sobell, Helen. Correspondence, 1959, from Lewis Mumford.

Title: Correspondence, 1959, from Lewis Mumford.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.).

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Gaede, Erwin A. Sobell papers, 1959-1966.

Title: Sobell papers, 1959-1966.

Comprise correspondence, including a letter from R.F. Kennedy, speeches, notes, and reports of tours concerning activities in behalf of Morton Sobell, convicted of espionage in 1951; also a photocopy of a letter from Michael Rosenberg [i.e. Meeropol] to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, unpublished poems by Helen Sobell, and photos.

ArchivalResource: 73 items.

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Guide to the Benjamin and Muriel Goldring Papers and Photographs, 1900-2007

Title: Guide to the Benjamin and Muriel Goldring Papers and Photographs, 1900-2007

Benjamin (Ben) Goldring and Muriel Goodman Goldring were lifelong political activists. Benjamin Goldring, a lawyer by profession, served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and later in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Both Muriel and Ben Goldring were active in the committees organized to fight the conviction and execution of the Rosenbergs and the imprisonment of Morton Sobell. As a specialist in civil liberties law, Ben Goldring gave his time and expertise to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB) in its legal battle against the Subversive Activities Control Board from the 1950s to the 1970s; he was also a actiove member of the National Lawyers Guild. In addition to her work with the Rosenberg and Sobell Committees, Muriel Goldring became involved in a wide range of local and national political causes. The Goldrings closely followed national political developments in many areas, from the peace movement to immigrants' and prisoners' rights, and were also community activists in Brooklyn, where they lived. This collection consists of the Goldrings' personal papers, materials related to Benjamin Goldring's service in the Spanish Civil War, background files on his legal practice and his writings on the law and legal history, files on the Goldrings' activities with the Rosenberg and Sobell defense committees, political reference files on their many political and cultural interests, as well as photographs of their families and friends extending from the late nineteenth century through the early 2000s, and a small amount of audio materials, ephemera, and artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 19.25 Linear Feet in 18 record cartons, 4 manuscript boxes, and 4 oversized folders.

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Wingate, John,. Interviews [sound recording], 1957.

Title: Interviews [sound recording], 1957.

Interviews conducted by John Wingate, October 8-11, 1957, on the program "Night Beat," WABD, with Arthur V. Crowley, J. Bracken Lee, Victor Riesel, Buff Donelli, Robert Elliot Fitch, Stuart Davis, John D. Odom, and Helen Sobell, dealing chiefly with labor and politics.

ArchivalResource: 1 tape recording.

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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

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Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell. Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell records, 1946-1969.

Title: Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell records, 1946-1969.

Records of the national organization formed in 1951 to publicize the cases of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Early efforts of the committee centered on securing clemency for the Rosenbergs; after their execution for communist espionage, efforts concentrated on effecting Sobell's release from prison. After serving 19 years in prison, Sobell was released in January 1969. The records document the committee's activities from its inception to Sobell's release and relate not only to the case itself, but also to the lives of the Sobells during his long imprisonment. The majority of the collection is available in a microfilm edition, The Records of the Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell (Brookhaven Press, 1976). (A copy is available in the SHSW Library.). Subject files containing correspondence arranged by individual, organization, or geographic area form the bulk of the collection. Also incorporated here are correspondence, circulars, and statements of the national committee, scattered information about the Rosenbergs, and personal and committee correspondence of Morton and Helen Sobell. Legal records include correspondence from Marshall Perlin, William Kunstler, and others, and printed and mimeographed legal documents. Smaller sections of the filmed collection include fragmentary financial records and uncopyrighted publications. Since the Brookhaven publication, the committee's clipping file has been microfilmed by the Historical Society. The remainder of the collection consists of photographs, posters, and video and sound recordings of committee members and supporters. Prominent individuals represented in the collection include Dean Acheson, Marian Anderson, Carlton Beals, Cedric Belfrage, Martin Buber, Pablo Casals, Roy M. Cohn, David Dellinger, W.E.B. DuBois, T.S. Eliot, Jules Feiffer, Erich Fromm, J. William Fulbright, Nat Hentoff, Chet Huntley, Homer Jack, Rockwell Kent, Martin Luther King, Jr., Corliss Lamont, William Langer, Doris Lessing, John V. Lindsay, Dwight MacDonald, Albert Maltz, Lewis Mumford, Linus Pauling, Victor Riesel, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bertrand Russell, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Pete Seeger, Upton Sinclair, Gale Sondergaard, I.F. Stone, Rex Stout, Norman Thomas, Arnold Toynbee, Dalton Trumbo, Harold C. Urey, and Mike Wallace. The processed portion is summarized above and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

ArchivalResource: 20.0 c.f. (50 archives boxes),7 reels of microfilm (35 mm),90 tape recordings,3 disc recordings,9 films, and1 filmstrip; plusadditions of 537 photographs,2 negatives,11 pieces of ephemera, and37 tearsheets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/173692473 View