Meyer London Photographs 1926-1959

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Meyer London Photographs 1926-1959

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Meyer London was a founder of the Socialist Party (U.S.), a U.S. Congressman who represented New York’s 12 District (the Lower East Side of New York City), and a labor lawyer who represented the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The collection contains images of London, his funeral, other socialist leaders, the Meyer London Memorial Library and the Meyer London School.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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London, Meyer, 1871-1926

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Meyer London (December 29, 1871 – June 6, 1926) was an American lawyer and politician from New York City. A member of the Socialist Party, he represented New York's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1915 to 1919 and from 1921 to 1923. London was one of only two members of the Socialist Party of America elected to the United States Congress. Born in Kalvarija, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), he attended Cheder, a traditional Jewish primary schoo...

Fitzgerald, Roy

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London, Anna R.

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Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951

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Solomon, Charles, 1889-1963

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Charles Solomon (1889-1963), a socialist, was born on New York City's lower East side of immigrant Jewish parents. He practiced labor law, joined the Socialist Party in 1910, and was elected to the New York State Assembly on the Socialist Party line in 1919. He was one of five such assemblymen refused their seats by the New York State Legislature that year. In 1920 he was again elected, and seated. He later ran unsuccessfully as a Socialist candidate for governor, senator, and New York City mayo...

Hourwich, Isaac A. (Isaac Aaronovich), 1860-1924

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Rand School of Social Science. Meyer London Memorial Library.

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Meyer London School (New York, N.Y.)

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Panken, Jacob, 1879-

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Jacob Panken (1879-1968) was a socialist, labor leader and judge. Following early involvement in labor organizing, he was elected New York Municipal Court Judge on the Socialist ticket (1917). He was appointed to the court by Mayor La Guardia in 1934. He wrote about juvenile delinquency, laying major responsibility on parental neglect and media violence. He ran unsuccessfully for governor, senator and New York City mayor and was active in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT...