Guide to the Archie Brown Photograph Collection, 1937-1989

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Guide to the Archie Brown Photograph Collection, 1937-1989

1937-1989

Archie Brown (1911-1990), San Francisco waterfront unionist, Communist Party organizer, and active member of the Bay Area Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain and participated in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. He served on the Executive Board of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Local 10, was prosecuted under the Landrum-Griffin Act barring Communists from serving as elected union officials, and won a Supreme Court decision in 1965 that overturned this legislation. The collection contains photographs of Brown at Veterans' receptions, reunions and other events. The collection also contains negatives and slides.

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