DeWitt Webster Parker Papers Bulk, 1937 1934-1938, (Bulk 1937)

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DeWitt Webster Parker Papers Bulk, 1937 1934-1938, (Bulk 1937)

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DeWitt Webster Parker (1910-1938) joined the International Brigades in March of 1937 and quickly rose to the position of political commissar of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. In March 1938, Parker was killed by a direct hit of artillery fire on the battalion command post in Belchite. The collection includes letters Parker wrote home from France and Spain, portions of his diary, and tributes written after his death, as well as letters from other International Brigaders to third parties.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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DeWitt Webster Parker, who went by the name of Eric in Spain, was born in 1910 in Boston. The son of a Harvard professor, Parker traveled to Europe in 1934, taking up temporary residence in Paris with his wife, Esther, before returning to the States. In March of 1937, Parker sailed from New York on the Ile de France to join the International Brigades. Due to his fluency in French and familiarity with the country, Parker was first assigned to help American volunteers move from Paris to the Spanis...

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