Intercollegiate Socialist Society Records 1900-1921

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911

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Higginson was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on December 22, 1823. He was a descendant of Francis Higginson, a Puritan minister and immigrant to the colony of Massachusetts Bay. His father, Stephen Higginson (born in Salem, Massachusetts, November 20, 1770; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 20, 1834), was a merchant and philanthropist in Boston and steward of Harvard University from 1818 until 1834. His grandfather, also named Stephen Higginson, was a member of the Continental Congre...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Ghent, William J. (William James), 1866-1942

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of William J. Ghent, 1876-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063264 Biographical Note 1866, Apr. 29 Born, Frankfort, Ind. 1894 Founder, Social Reform Club, New York, N.Y. 1...

Feigenbaum, William M., 1886-1949

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Laidler, Harry W. (Harry Wellington), 1884-1970

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Economist. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry Wellington Laidler : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451940 Harry Laidler, economist, author, educator and socialist activist, was born in Brooklyn, New York, February 18, 1884. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University (1907) where he was one of the founders of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. He received a LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1910 and ...

Holbrook, M. R.

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Stokes, James Graham Phelps, 1872-1960

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James Graham Phelps Stokes was born in New York City in 1872. He graduated from Yale University in 1892. Upon graduation from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia in 1896 he entered the family business and became increasingly active in settlement house work and various other movements for social reform. Later Stokes became interested in politics and socialism. In 1908 he was elected to the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party. In 1904 Stokes married Rose Harriet Past...

Walling, William English, 1877-1936

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League for Industrial Democracy.

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The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society by democratic socialist intellectuals to bring "education for the new social order" to the nation's campuses, but its name was changed in 1920 to broaden appeal and better reflect aims of social ownership and democratic control of industry. In 1922 Norman Thomas (1884-1968; later the Socialist Party's head and presidential candidate) joined Harry W. Laidler as Co-Director. LID campaigned throug...

Intercollegiate Socialist Society (U.S.)

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The Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS), an on-campus student and faculty organization, was established by a group of prominent socialists in New York in 1905. Among the founding members of the ISS were James Graham Phelps Stokes, jCharlotte Perkins Gilman, William English Walling, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, leonard and Oscar Lovell Triggs. The ISS established numerous study and reading groups, sponsored rallies and lecture engagements for prominent socialists, published book lists and phmp...

Spargo, John, 1876-1966

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British socialist, author. From the description of Reminiscences of John Spargo : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309739101 John Spargo was an author and social activist, perhaps best known for his exposé, The Bitter Cry of Children. Born in Cornwall, he apprenticed with a stonecutter and became a lay Methodist minister; he was also an active Socialist in England before emigrating to the United States in 1901, where he ...