Democratic Socialists of America Records Bulk, 1972-1995 1940-2006 (bulk 1972-1995)

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Democratic Socialists of America Records Bulk, 1972-1995 1940-2006 (bulk 1972-1995)

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Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was founded in 1973 as the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee and led by Michael Harrington (1928-1989), best known as the author of (1962) and became DSA upon its merger with the New American Movement (a New Left organization) in 1982. The collection contains administrative records, including convention materials, minutes, correspondence (including that of Michael Harrington), state and local chapter files, including local publications, membership files, committee, project, and topical files; correspondence and some administrative records of DSA's Youth Section; reports and proceedings of the Socialist International, of which DSA is the U.S. affiliate. The collection also contains published and unpublished writings of Michael Harrington and files relating to his travel and speaking engagements. The Other America

141.25 linear feet; (147 boxes)

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Democratic Socialists of America. Youth Section

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Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (U.S.). Youth Section

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Institute for Democratic Socialism (U.S.)

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Phillips, Maxine

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Democratic Socialists of America. Democratic Agenda.

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Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (U.S.)

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Newsletter of the Democratic Left.

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Democratic National Convention |d (1980 : |c New York, N.Y.).

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Democratic Left

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Shier, Carl

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United Auto Workers (UAW) organizer. From the description of Carl Shier papers, 1949-1966. (Wayne State University, Archives of Labor & Urban). WorldCat record id: 32321192 ...

Democratic Socialists of America. Feminist Commission

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Democratic National Convention |d (1976 : |c New York, N.Y.).

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Clark, Jack, 1949-

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Socialist International (1951- )

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Successor of the Labour and Socialist International (LSI/SAI) 1923-1940, constituted at the Eighth International Socialist Conference in Frankfurt am Main in 1951; with the prospective member parties eager to ensure their autonomy it took six years of negotiations to found a new social democratic international; at first only an information bureau was established, the Socialist Information and Liaison Office (SILO) 1946-1947, later the Committee of the International Socialist Conferences (COMISCO...

Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation

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Democratic Party (U.S.)

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Democratic Socialists of America

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Ann Arbor local of the Democratic Socialists of America. From the description of Democratic Socialists of America/Ann Arbor records, 1980-1986. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 83950562 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was founded in 1973 as the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and led by Michael Harrington (1928-1989), best known as the author of The Other America (1962) and became the DSA upon its merger with the New American Movement (a ...

New American Movement (Organization)

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The New American Movement (NAM), a self-identified "new type" of socialist organization, held its founding convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1972. Established largely by veterans of the New Left, NAM wanted to move beyond the activism of the 1960s and rejected a Communist "vanguard party" approach to organizing. The group was opposed to the Vietnam War and called for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. NAM's overarching goal was to create a democratic socialist society, characte...

Harrington, Michael, 1928-1989?

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Michael Harrington (1928-1989), a U.S. socialist writer and political leader, best known as the author of The Other America: Poverty in the United States (1962), and as the founder and leader of Democratic Socialists of America, the U.S. affiliate to the Socialist International, was born in St. Louis, received a Jesuit secondary education, graduated from Holy Cross College in 1947 and, after a brief interval at Yale Law School, received a MA degree in English from the University of ...