Ferry, Elinor, 1915-1993.

Elinor Ferry, journalist, labor organizer and socialist, was born in 1915. She became a sports journalist as a teenager, worked to organize the Newspaper Guild, then became an assistant to Michael Quill, head of the Transport Workers Union. In the 1950s, Ferry documented the activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy, and worked to aid those who refused to testify on First Amendment gounds, before Congressional committees investigating communism. Ferry also was active in the Independent Socialist Party (ISP), which attempted to unite former communists with other socialists, from 1958-1960. In the 1960s Ferry worked on an unpublished book-length manuscript on Whittaker Chambers and his role in the Alger Hiss case. At one time, Ferry was married to George Kirstein, who was the publisher of The Nation. Ferry died in 1993.

From the description of Papers, 1952-[ca. 1967]. 1952-1960 (bulk). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477243043