Alvah Bessie Papers Bulk, 1936-1985 1936-1985, (Bulk 1936-1939; 1967-1985)

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Bay Area Post

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6518xhn (corporateBody)

Wolff, Milton

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rb7jmf (person)

Milton (Milt) Wolff (1915-2008) was born in Brooklyn, NY to a working-class family. He left school at fifteen and worked in the New Deal 's Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1934. He later found work in a Manhattan garment factory and became politically active through membership in the Young Communist League. When the Civil War broke out in Spain he responded to a YCL appeal for volunteers and sailed for Europe, aged 21, in March 1937. He initially served as a medic and then saw act...

Landis, Arthur H., 1917-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q59qn (person)

Arthur H. Landis was born into a family of vaudeville performers in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1917, and spent most of his youth in Redondo Beach, California. Landis joined the 15th International Brigade in 1937 and fought with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion. He worked as a scout, a typographer, and an artillery spotter with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, and fought in the battles of Aragon and Teruel, where he was injured. Landis also worked for a stint for an intelligence unit, and participa...

Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v74066 (corporateBody)

The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee (JAFRC) emerged in 1941superseding several earlier committees and organizations that had been developed to secure humanitarian aid for refugees of the Spanish Civil War. Along with providing humanitarian aid, the JAFRC was “dedicated to the rescue and relief of thousands of anti-fascist fighters trapped in Vichy France, and North Africa so that they [could] return to the active fight against the Axis.” Dr. Edward Barsky, leader of American me...

Timpson, Arthur

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g31xs2 (person)

Bessie, Dan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz0h0d (person)

Collected materials relating to his uncle Leo Burnett, an advertising executive, and to his uncle Harry Burnett, who with Forman Brown and Roddy Brandon were the three openly gay partners forming the Yale Puppeteers and who operated the Turnabout Theater in Hollywood. From the description of Dan Bessie collection, 1910s-1990s (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 85778623 From the description of Dan Bessie collection, 1920s-1990s (University of Michigan). WorldCat re...

Spain. Ejercito Popular de la Republica. Abraham Lincoln Battalion.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m7059x (corporateBody)

Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61v5cp5 (person)

Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was an author and screenwriter who fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, and was later blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten" cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on the influence of the Communist Party in the motion-picture industry. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991 (bulk 1936-1939, 1967-1985). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476413154 ...

Iceland, Benjamin, 1910-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q116h8 (person)

Ben Iceland (1910-1990), son of the Yiddish poet Rueben Iceland, was born on New York’s Lower East Side and raised in the Bronx. Iceland graduated from New York University in 1933 with a degree in classics. Upon graduation he held a series of makeshift jobs, everything from shoveling snow to working as a theater usher, until taking a position in 1934 with New York City’s Home Relief Bureau, the forerunner of the Welfare Department. Once he landed a steady job, Iceland married Claire...

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6716hd6 (corporateBody)

Rosenstone, Robert A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61t15bb (person)

Lardner, James, 1914-1938

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wc1756 (person)

James Lardner was born on May 18, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the second of four sons born to Ringgold (Ring) Wilmer Lardner, journalist and humorist, and Ellis Abbott Lardner, a Smith College graduate from a prominent Michigan family. In 1919, the Lardner family moved East and James, with his brothers, was raised in the affluent enclaves of Greenwich, Connecticut and Great Neck, Long Island. The boys came of age in the rich literary milieu formed by the writers and journalist...

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c57872 (corporateBody)

VALB was formed in December 1937 by U.S. volunteers returning from combat in the Spanish Civil War. VALB originally assisted wounded veterans and sought to awaken the U.S. public to the significance of the Spanish Civil War and the Loyalist cause. In later years, VALB began to address other political issues, including U.S. policy in World War II and later, Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam. In addition to their headquarters in New York City, VALB "Posts" developed in various cities including Los Angel...

Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj2x26 (person)

Steve Nelson was born Stjepan Mesaroš in Croatia, and emigrated to the United States with his family after World War I. He was a labor activist and organizer, Communist Party official, Political Commissar in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and National Commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB). During his time in Spain he took part in the Brunete offensive, as well as the battles of Quinto and Belchite. He was wounded at Belchite, and then was recalled to the United States by...

Gordon, David, 1909-1973.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qj8xwq (person)

David Gordon (1909-1973), a Communist trade unionist, author, editor and journalist, was born in the Ukraine, and immigrated to the U.S. when he was three. In 1924, he was convicted of obscenity for writing the poem "America" (published in the Daily Worker, the Communist Party USA's newspaper) which compared America to a whorehouse. Gordon was paroled to the University of Wisconsin Experimental College where he had a Zona Gale literary scholarship and studied for two years. He became active in t...