Marc Crawford and Abby London Crawford Photographs 1987-1998

Johnson, Howard

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Crawford, Marc

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Marc Crawford, a journalist, civil rights activist and university teacher, co-authored a pictorial history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade with William Loren Katz. His wife, Abby London Crawford, a teacher and photographer, accompanied him to veterans reunions and related events, both in the U.S. and Spain, and documented these events in hundred of photographs. After Marc Crawford's death in 1996, Abby Crawford continued to be involved with the Lincoln veterans, and to record their recent history...

Yates, James, 1906-

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

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

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Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993

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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...

Crawford, Abby London

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Abby London Crawford, the widow of Marc Crawford, is a teacher and an accomplished photographer, whose work has appeared in the national and radical press. Marc Crawford, a journalist, civil rights activists and university teacher, collaborated with William Loren Katz on The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History (Atheneum, 1989). In the course of preparing that book, and for several years afterward, Marc and Abby Crawford attended veterans' gatherings in the U.S. and Spain, and she doc...

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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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...