McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984

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Born in Malden, West Virginia, in 1886 , McKinney, also known under the pseudonym David Coolidge, was the son of coal miner. At different points in his life McKinney endeavored a variety of jobs which included becoming editor of, This Month; a columnist for the Pittsburgh Courier (1932); Executive Secretary of the Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County (1933); a Social Worker; and Assistant to the Director, Kingsley House. In 1916 an oral history conducted at Columbia University resulted in McKinney writing a 116 page book of memoirs published by Harvard University, The Reminiscences of Ernest Rice McKinney. The memoir deals with the development of the National Unemployed League, depression days; organizing steel workers for CIO, membership in the Workers' Socialist Party; upgrading African Americans in industry; Working Men's Welfare Committees; Workers Party of the United States (Trotskyist Group) and its relationship to Communist and Socialist Parties; and McKinney's resignation from Workers Party.

From the description of Papers of Ernest Rice McKinney, 1929-1942 (bulk 1929-1935, 1942). (University of Pittsburgh). WorldCat record id: 30385139

Labor leader.

From the description of Reminiscences of Ernest Rice McKinney : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734704

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creatorOf McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984. Oral history interview with Ernest McKinney [sound recording] / interviewed by Howard Fredricks. University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, Murphy Library
referencedIn Workers Party and Independent Socialist League Records, 1945-1958 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Conference on Minority Studies (1973). Recordings [sound recording], 1973. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Guide to the Max Shachtman Papers, 1917-1969 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Oswald Garrison Villard papers Houghton Library
creatorOf McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984. Papers of Ernest Rice McKinney, 1929-1942 (bulk 1929-1935, 1942). University of Pittsburgh
referencedIn Independent Socialist League. Independent Socialist League records, 1945-1958. Churchill County Museum
referencedIn Guide to the Oral History of the American Left Collection, 1940-2011 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Jacob Lofman Papers, 1928-1998 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Kornweibel, Theodore. "No crystal stair: Black life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" interviews, 1970-1972. New York Public Library System, NYPL
Kornweibel, Theodore. "No crystal stair: Black life and the Messenger, 1917-1928" interviews, 1970-1972. New York Public Library System, NYPL
creatorOf McKinney, Ernest Rice, 1886-1984. Reminiscences of Ernest Rice McKinney : oral history, 1961. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
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associatedWith Communist Party of the United States of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) corporateBody
associatedWith Edwin, Ed, person
associatedWith Fredricks, Howard R. person
associatedWith Independent Socialist League. corporateBody
associatedWith Kornweibel, Theodore. person
associatedWith Lofman, Jacob person
associatedWith Manchester Industrial Center (Pittsburgh, Pa.) corporateBody
associatedWith National Association for the Advancement of Colored People corporateBody
associatedWith Pennsylvania Unemployed League. Allegheny County Division. corporateBody
associatedWith Shachtman, Max, 1903-1972 person
associatedWith Socialist Workers Party. corporateBody
associatedWith Tamiment Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County. corporateBody
associatedWith University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. Conference on Minority Studies (1973). corporateBody
correspondedWith Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1872-1949 person
associatedWith Workers Party, 1940-1949 corporateBody
associatedWith Workers Socialist Party of the United States. corporateBody
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Pittsburgh (Pa.)
United States
Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
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African American journalists
African Americans
African Americans
African Americans
African American social workers
Journalists
Labor unions
Socialism
Socialists
Social workers
Unemployed
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Birth 1886-12-07

Death 1984

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