Guide to the John Pittman Papers, circa 1880s-1987

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)

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Jackson, James P.

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Gallagher, Leonard J.

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Hall, Gus

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Sullivan, Noelle

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Gannett, Betty

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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...

Pittman, Margrit, 1919-2013

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Margrit Pittman was a working class journalist and lifelong advocate of world peace, equality, and socialism. Pittman served for many years on the staff of the Worker and its successor newspapers, the Daily World and the People’s Weekly World. Her lifelong partner in that endeavor was her journalist husband, John Pittman, an outstanding African American writer and editor. He was co-editor of the Daily World when it was launched in 1968. She served as editor of World Magazine and as editor of t...

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 1884-1958

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The best-selling novelist, Lion Feuchtwanger, fled Germany in 1933 with the rise of the National Socialists. Living first in exile in France (1933-1940), Feuchtwanger and his wife, Marta, ultimately emigrated to the United States in 1940, coming to Los Angeles in 1941. Lion Feuchtwanger is perhaps best known for his historical novel, Jud Süss (1925; Jew Suess), and his novel Erfolg (1930; Success), the first novel that predicts the reign of terror of National Socialism. Lion Feuchtwanger lived ...

Jackson, James

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Yergan, Max, 1892-1975

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Davis, Benjamin J. (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964

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A prominent black attorney, Davis graduated from Amherst College in 1925, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1929, and returned to Georgia to practice law. He gained notoriety for his defense of Angelo Herndon in 1933 who had been accused of insurrection. Davis became actively involved with the Communist Party and moved to New York City in 1935 to edit the Daily Worker. In 1948, he was arrested under the Smith Act and received a five-year sentence. He was arrested again in 1962 for his partici...

Winston, Henry, 1911-1986

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Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

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Poet, author, playwright, songwriter. From the guide to the Langston Hughes collection, [microform], 1926-1967, (The New York Public Library. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division.) From the description of Langston Hughes collection, 1926-1967. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 144652168 Langson Hughes: African-American poet and writer, author of Weary Blue (1926), The Big Sea (1940), and other works. ...

Harrington, Oliver W. (Oliver Wendell), 1912-

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The Daily Worker, the official organ of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), traces its origins back to the Communist Labor Party, founded in Chicago in 1919. The Communist Labor Party’s paper was known as the Toiler . When the Communist Labor Party and the Workers Party merged in 1921, the Toiler became the weekly paper The Worker . Two years later, the paper changed its name to the Daily Worker . As a daily newspaper, the Daily Worker covered the major stor...

Patterson, William L. (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980

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Noted political activist, lawyer, orator, organizer, writer, and Communist from San Franicsco, Calif.; also known as "Mr. Civil Rights." He also lived in New York from the mid-1950s to 1979. From the description of William Lorenzo Patterson papers, 1919-1979 (bulk, mid-1950s-1979). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 729372659 ...

KSAN (Radio station : San Francisco, Calif.)

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Hall, Gus

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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.) ...

Belfrage, Cedric, 1904-1990

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Cedric Belfrage, socialist, author, journalist, translator, and co-founder of the National Guardian, was born in London in 1904. His early career as a film critic began at Cambridge University, where he published his first article in Kinematograph Weekly (1924). In 1927 Belfrage went to Hollywood, where he was hired by the New York Sun and Film Weekly as a correspondent. Belfrage returned to London in 1930 as Sam Goldwyn's press agent. Lord Beaverbrook of the Sunday Express soon hir...

Wilkerson, Doxey Alphonso, 1905-1993

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An African-American educator, Doxey A. Wilkerson, made significant contributions to early childhood education and teacher education for secondary school, especially with regard to minority and disadvantaged students. Wilkerson was a professor of education at Howard University from 1935-1943 and served as a research associate for the Carnegie Corporation study of the Negro in America, 1939-1940. He served as national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers (...

Flory, Ishmael

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Smith, Jessica, 1895-1983

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Society of Friends relief worker in Russia, 1923. From the description of Jessica Smith reports, 1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867413 Biographical/Historical Note Society of Friends relief worker in Russia, 1923. From the guide to the Jessica Smith reports, 1923, (Hoover Institution Archives) ...

Gallagher, Leo

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Dennis, Eugene, 1905-1961

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Mays, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Elijah), 1894-1984

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Benjamin E. Mays : oral history, 1980. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527874 Benjamin E. Mays (1895- ), president of Morehouse College during the Atlanta 1960-1961 sit-ins. From the description of Benjamin Elijah Mays oral history interview, 1978 Nov. 29. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38727125 President of Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga., from 1940...

Field, Frederick V. (Frederick Vanderbilt), 1905-2000

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Sullivan, Noel

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Biography Noël Sullivan was born in San Francisco on December 25, 1890, the youngest child and only son of Frank J. and Alice Phelan Sullivan, the nephew of Senator James D. Phelan, and the grandson of John Sullivan who came west in 1844 with the "Sullivan-Murphy Party." The family was a wealthy and distinguished one. Young Sullivan attended the Jesuit colleges of St. Ignatius and Santa Clara, but his interests were musical, not academic. He ...

Gannett, Betty.

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Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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Civil rights leader and journalist; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1915-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605113 Roy Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins edited the KANSAS CITY CALL, a Black newspaper, from 1923 to 1931. Wilkins became Assistant Secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and became Executive Secretary in 1955. Under his leadership the NAACP grew to 350,000 members. ...

Pittman, John, 1906-1993

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John Pittman (1906-1993), an African-American communist journalist, was born in Atlanta, graduated from Morehouse College, and received an M.A. in Economics (1930) from the University of California at Berkeley, with a thesis titled "Railroads and Negro Labor." After a brief stint at Stanford Law School, and jobs as a waiter on the Southern Pacific Railroad and as secretary to art patron Noel Sullivan, in October, 1931 he founded and served as editor of the San Francisco Spokesman (a weekly newsp...

Jerome, V.J. (Victor Jeremy), 1896-1965

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Victor J. Jerome: American communist, writer, political activist; member of the American Communist Party (1924-1965), rising in the 1930s to Cultural Commissioner; editor of The Communist (later Political Affairs) from 1935-1955; co-defendant in the 1952 Foley Square Trials as a violator of the Smith Act (U.S. 1940); journalist and author. From the description of Victor Jeremy Jerome papers, 1923-1967 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702200823 Victor ...

Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

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American Marxist author, lecturer, and apologist. From the guide to the Herbert Aptheker letter to Mrs. Doares, 1970, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Noted Marxist scholar Dr. Herbert Aptheker was born in New York City in 1915. His more than thirty published books include such titles as THE ERA OF McCARTHYISM (1957), THE WORLD OF C. WRIGHT MILLS (1960), THE URGENCY OF MARXIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE (1970), but he is best known for hi...

Lochard, Metz T. B., 1896-1984.

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Childs, Morris, 1902-1991

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Federal Bureau of Investigation informant within the Communist Party of the United States. From the description of Morris Childs papers, 1924-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86130901 Biographical Note Federal Bureau of Investigation informant within the Communist Party of the United States. From the guide to the Morris Childs materials on loan from the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, 1924-1988, (Hoover Instit...

Burns, Ben

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Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997

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Communist Party organizer in Georgia and renowned African-American political prisoner in the 1930s. Angelo Herndon, who helped organized a protest march of Black and white unemployed workers in Atlanta in 1932, was found guilty of "inciting to insurrection" in a Fulton County court, under an 1861 slave stature, and condemned to 18 to 20 years on a Georgia chain gang. A petition drive for his release organized by the International Labor Defense collected two million signatures. Freed on bail in D...

Shields, Art, 1888-

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