Corey, Lewis

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Journalist, author, & publicist. Corey, born Louis C. Fraina in 1892, was an influential Marxist journalist and member of the Communist Party of the USA in the 1910s and 1920s. Like many other Americans involved in the Communist Party in the 1910s and 1920s, Corey becamse disillusioned with Soviet-style Communism and broke with the party in the inter-war era. In 1940 Corey, along with other anti-communist intellectuals such as Reinhold Niebhur, founded the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Action). In 1942 Corey began teaching economics at Antioch College. Corey did in 1953.

From the guide to the Lewis Corey Papers, ca.1910-1953., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, )

Biographical/Historical Note

American communist leader; later anti-communist labor leader and educator.

From the guide to the Lewis Corey letter to Harold H. Fisher, 1936, (Hoover Institution Archives)