Maud Russell papers 1914-1990 1918-1989

Carlson, Evans Fordyce, 1896-1947

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Evans Fordyce Carlson (26 February 1896 – 27 May 1947) was a decorated and retired United States Marine Corps general officer who was the legendary leader of "Carlson's Raiders" during World War II. Many credit Carlson with developing the tactics and attitude that would later come to define America's special operations forces. He is renowned for the "Makin Island raid" in 1942, and his raiders' "Long Patrol" (aka Carlson's patrol) behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, in which 488 Japanese were ...

Strong, Anna Louise, 1885-1970

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Epithet: US author and socialist in Moscow British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000351.0x0003de Anna Louise Strong was born in Nebraska and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago. Later moving to Seattle, she was the editor of the Seattle Union Record. She travelled extensively to Russia and China, and she wrote accounts of those journeys. In 1921 she travelled to famine-struck areas in Russia as part of ...

Pruitt, Ida

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Writer, educator, and social worker Ida Pruitt was born in China on December 2, 1888, the daughter of Southern Baptist missionaries Cicero Washington and Anna Seward Pruitt. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Hwanghsien, a village in Shantung province. She attended Cox College in College Park, Georgia (1906-1909), received a B.S. from Columbia University Teachers' College (1910) and studied social work in Boston and Philadelphia. Pruitt returned to China as teacher and principal of ...

Smedley, Agnes, 1892-1950

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American journalist. From the description of Agnes Smedley collection, 1911-1981 (bulk 1938-1948). (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 28979405 Agnes Smedley was born in Missouri in 1892 and lived in a number of western towns until she arrived at the Tempe Normal School in 1911. She attended the Normal School as a "Special Student" from 1911-1912, receiving special consideration for admission from president Arthur J. Matthews. ...

Bentley, Wilder, 1900-1989

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Bentley was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1900; attended Yale and the Univ. of Michigan; spent several years in Europe, providing relief work with French war orphans and later travelling; lab asst., Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1931-33; honorary assoc. member, American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1932; printed books for the Archetype Press and the Greenwood Press; taught in School of Humanities, San Francisco State College. From the description of Papers, ca. 19...

Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy

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Snow, Edgar, 1905-1972

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American author. From the description of Autobiography excerpts, 1958-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367437397 ...

Young Women's Christian Association of China.

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Epstein, Israel, 1915-

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Fairfax-Cholmeley, Elsie

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

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Records of the YWCA's programs and activities among blacks began in 1907. From the description of Records, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007201 The YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula opened in 1948 as a recreation center for business women. It expanded to provide recreational and social services for women that met the organization's mission of "empowering women and eliminating racism." The organization was based in Palo Alto until its closing in 2003. ...

United States-China People's Friendship Association.

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Crook, David, 1910-

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Russell, Maud

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Maud Muriel Russell (1893-1989) was a social worker with the YWCA in China from 1917 to 1943, and then executive director of the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy from 1946 to 1952. From 1953 to 1989 she lectured on contemporary China and edited the Far East Reporter, a newsletter on East Asian affairs. From the guide to the Maud Russell papers, 1914-1990, 1918-1989, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Gerlach, Talitha, 1896-

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Song, Qingling, 1893-1981

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Wife of the Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen. From the description of Song Qingling speech, 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872226 Reformer. Signed Soong Ching-Ling (Mme. Sun Yat-sen). From the description of Qingling Song correspondence, 1934 June 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980498 Biographical/Historical Note Wife of the Chinese statesman Sun Yat-sen. From the guide to the ...

Bentley, Mary Ingle, 1878-1940.

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Crook, Isabel

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Chinese Industrial Cooperatives

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Gollobin, Ira, 1911-

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Ira Gollobin, an immigration rights attorney and author, served as pro bono counselor to refugees from all over the world including Nazi Germany and Duvalierist Haiti. His work with Haitian refugees, the purview of this collection, began in 1974. In this capacity he served as lead counsel on several major cases that were pivotal to the rights of Haitian refugees, the so-called "boat people." Gollobin's critical role as lead counsel was as important as his active role in developing grassroots org...

Alley, Rewi, 1897-1987

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Deng, Cora, 1900-

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