Ida Guggenheimer papers 1944-1953

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Ida Guggenheimer papers 1944-1953

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Social, political and civil rights activist, Ida Guggenheimer was involved in a wide variety of causes and projects during her adult life. She was a member of the American Labor Party and was involved in the women's suffrage and trade union movements. She also had some involvement in civil rights activities and lent her support to such causes as the trials of the Scottsboro Boys and Angelo Herndon. Her protege was Ralph Ellison, the author of "Invisible Man," which is dedicated to Guggenheimer. The Ida Guggenheimer papers consist of correspondence and printed matter on Richard Wright and E. Franklin Frazier. The material regarding Wright concerns his writings and his withdrawal from the Communist Party of the U.S.A. Frazier was a prominent educator and sociologist. His correspondence with Guggenheimer relates mainly to an incident reported in the "Black Dispatch" and "The People's Voice" alleging that he had violated a labor organized boycott against a restaurant in Harlem that did not employ African-Americans (1945). Other material peripherally relates to his career and the fight against racial segregation in Washington, D.C. during World War II. Five articles written by Frazier are included in this collection. Additionally, there is printed matter concerning the Lafargue Clinic, a mental hygiene clinic in Harlem.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)

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The first mental health clinic in Harlem, Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by the well-known psychiatrist Frederic Wertham and others, to provide low cost treatment to a primarily black population. The clinic was housed at St. Philip's Church until its closing in 1959. From the description of Lafargue Clinic records, 1946-1981 (bulk 1946-1958). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517443 Lafargue Clinic was founded in 1946 by the well-known psychiatrist Fredric ...

Frazier, Edward Franklin, 1894-1962

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African American sociologist, educator, author, and head of the Dept. of Sociology at Howard University. From the description of Papers, 1908-1962. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941134 ...

Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Guggenheimer, Ida, 1866-1959

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Ida Espen Guggenheimer (Mrs. Jay C. Guggenheimer) was a noted feminist. Walter Pach was a painter and critic. From the description of Ida Guggenheimer correspondence with Walter Pach and related miscellaneous material, 1929-1951. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122454382 Social, political and civil rights activist, Ida Guggenheimer was involved in a wide variety of causes and projects during her adult life. She was a member of the American Labor Party and was involved in the ...