Guide to the Virginia Gardner Papers, 1913-1990

Garlin, Sender

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Sender Garlin (1902-1999), was an author and journalist, who wrote for the Socialist Party newspaper, Appeal to Reason, the Communist Party's Western Worker, helped form the John Reed Club in the early 1930s and was a founding editor of the Partisan Review before he moved on to write for the New Masses . From the guide to the Garlin, Sender: Letters to Gil Green, 1980-1987, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Williams, William Appleman

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William Appleman Williams, an American historian, was known as the father of the "revisionist school" of American diplomatic history. Born in Atlantic, Iowa in 1921, he attended the United States Naval Academy and spent fifteen months as a naval officer in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, he enrolled in the history department at the University of Wisconsin and received his doctorate in 1950. He taught at several schools before joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in ...

Unger, Nick.

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Tessitore, John

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Gardner, John C. (John Carey), 1856-1920

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John Gardner was an officer in the Chester County, Pa. militia during the Revolution and sheriff of the county from 1780 to 1783. From the description of Papers, 1785-1791. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122347631 ...

Spector, Frank.

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Sessions, Kay Hall.

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Hardesty, Corrine.

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Gardner, Virginia H. (Virginia Hartwell), 1918-

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Virginia Gardner (1904-1992) was a journalist, a communist, and biographer of Louise Bryant. She was raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1924, then worked at several Midwestern newspapers before joining the Chicago Tribune in 1930. Gardner gradually became a radical, joined the Communist Party c.1937, led the small Newspaper Guild group at the Tribune, and was fired for her union activism in March, 1940. Blacklisted i...

Citizens Committee for Harry Bridges.

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Bridges, Nikki.

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Allen, Bill, 1914-

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Hardesty, Corrine.

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Rosenberg, Ethel, 1915-1953

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New ...

Richmond, Al, 1913-1987

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Al Richmond is currently the historian/museum curator for the Grand Canyon Railway museum. He has a Master of Science Degree in Natural Resources Interpretation and Quaternary Studies from Northern Arizona University. From the guide to the Al Richmond Collection, 1975-1985., (Cline Library. Special Collections and Archives Department.) ...

Bryant, Louise, 1885-1936

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Louise Bryant was born on December 5, 1885, in San Francisco, California. After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1909, she began her career in journalism as an illustrator, and later the society editor, for the Spectator newspaper in Portland, Oregon. In 1916, Bryant moved to New York City and married the journalist John Reed. After reporting on the war in France for the Bell Syndicate in 1917, Bryant and Reed traveled to Russia and witnessed the revolution there. Her reporting on Rus...

People's world (San Francisco, Calif.).

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Hennacy, Ammon, 1893-1970

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Pacifist/anarchist. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154299795 Ammon Ashford Hennacy was born in 1893 in Negley, Ohio, to Benjamin and Lida Fitz-Randolph Hennacy. He married Selma Melms in 1919, they were divorced in 1964, and then he married Joan Thomas. Hennacy was a "Christian-anarchist-pacifist" (as he called himself) who never paid taxes or went to war. He was a conscientious objector in both world wars, and a lifelong anti-war activist. He...

Citizens' Committee for Harry Bridges.

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Masses & mainstream.

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Williams, William Appleman

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Epithet: Professor of History Wisconsin University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000066 William Appleman Williams was a historian known for his sharp critiques of American foreign policy. A graduate of Kemper Military Academy in Booneville, Missouri, and later of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, he served as an officer in the Pacific during World War II, receiving an honorable discharge a...

Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995

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John Reed (1887-1920) was an American journalist and revolutionary. He graduated from Harvard College in 1910, joined the staff of The Masses in 1913, was a war correspondent in Mexico and Europe for Metropolitan Magazine, publicist for the Russian Revolution, and head of the American Communist Labor Party. From the guide to the Corliss Lamont papers concerning John Reed, 1910-1967., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Reed (1887-1920) was an Amer...

Rosenberg, Julius, 1918-1953

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were American citizens who were convicted of spying on behalf of the Soviet Union. The couple were accused of providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and valuable nuclear weapon designs; at that time the United States was the only country in the world with nuclear weapons. Convicted of espionage in 1951, they were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 in the Sing Sing correctional facility in Ossining, New ...

Spector, Frank.

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Newspaper Guild

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Bridges, Nikki

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Bridges, Harry, 1901-1990

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Harry Renton Bridges, also known as Alfred Renton Byrant Bridges, came to the United States in 1920 from Australia where he had been a seaman and involved in union activities. Bridges continued to be active on the docks in fighting for labor rights and was instrumental in getting the International Longshore Association (ILA), an affiliate of the AF of L, recognized as the bargaining unit for the entire Pacific coast. He became president of ILA Local 34-36 and in 1936 its Pacific Coast preside...

Tessitore, John

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Unger, Nick

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Garlin, Sender A.

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Hilliard, Noel

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McGrath, Thomas, 1916-1990

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Thomas McGrath was born in 1916 near Sheldon, North Dakota. He first attended Moorhead State University and in 1939 earned a B.A. at the University of North Dakota. He studied at Louisiana State with Cleanth Brooks, was involved in radical political activity, wrote, and published his first book of poems. In the 1940-1941 academic year McGrath taught at Colby College in Maine then went to New York city where he wrote, did legal research for attorneys engaged in "political" cases, and worked at th...

Daily Worker (New York)

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American Council on Soviet Relations

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Chicago Tribune (Firm)

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Gardner, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 41804 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x000364 Epithet: innkeeper, of Croydon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x00035d Epithet: Curate of Barton, county Bedfordshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x00035c ...

Sessions, Kay Hall.

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Gardner, Virginia. Friend and lover.

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Virginia Gardner (1904-1992) was a journalist, a communist, and biographer of Louise Bryant. She was raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas graduated with a B.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1924, then worked at several Midwestern newspapers before joining the Chicago Tribune in 1930. Gardner gradually became a radical, joined the Communist Party c.1937, led the small Newspaper Guild group at the Tribune, and was fired for her union activism in March, 1940. B...