Guide to the George Breitman Papers

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Guide to the George Breitman Papers

1919-1989

https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/tam_169/

George Breitman (1916-1986) was a Trotskyist and a founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). He edited The Militant newspaper and served in World War II. In the 1960s, Breitman assumed responsibility for the SWP's Pathfinder Press, edited Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929-1940, and wrote Malcolm X Speaks (1965). The George Breitman Papers contain personal files, correspondence, files of the Socialist Workers Party and other socialist organizations, written works, audio recordings of events and lectures, and photographs. The materials portay Breitman's life and work, including scholarly work and activism relating to U.S. socialism, Trotskyism, Malcolm X, and the Black Power and Civil Rights movements.

38 Linear Feet in 33 manuscript boxes, 5 record cartons, 4 cassette boxes and one folder; 133 audiocassettes; 39 sound tape reels

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Breitman, George, 1916-1986

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George Breitman (1916-1986) was born in a working-class neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey in 1916. After graduating from high school, Breitman found work in the Civilian Conservation Corps and later in the Works Progress Administration. By 1935, he had joined the Trotskyist movement as a member of the Spartacus Youth League and then as a member of the Workers Party. He also joined the New Jersey branch of the Workers Alliance of America, an organization that fought for relief during the Great D...