Nora Roberts Papers 1950s-1990s

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Nora Roberts Papers 1950s-1990s

Nora Ruth Roberts (b. ca. 1941) is an author of works on radical women writers, including Meridel Le Sueur, writings on gender, and several novels and short stories, some autobiographical in nature. She grew up as a Trotskyist and was a member of the Socialist Workers Party's affiliated youth organization, the Young Socialist Alliance. The collection contains typescripts of her fiction and non-fiction writings, poetry, reviews, a few letters, YSA internal documents, an anonymous book length typescript, "A Study of Capital," an autobiographical typescript by the late Trotskyist Daniel Rosenshine [1946-1993/4], and a small file on Eugene Dennett, a Seattle worker called before HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee).

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Young Socialist Alliance (U.S.)

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From the guide to the Young Socialist Alliance, 1976-1977, null, (University of Maryland) ...

Roberts, Nora Ruth

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Nora Ruth Roberts (b. ca. 1941) is an author of works on radical women writers, including Meridel Le Sueur, writings on gender, and several novels and short stories, some autobiographical in nature, describing Roberts' Trotskyist upbringing (her parents were members of the Socialist Workers Party) and her activity in the Young Socialist Alliance (founded in 1960), which was affiliated with the SWP. From the guide to the Nora Roberts Papers, 1950s-1990s, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Arc...

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883

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Author and philosopher. From the description of Letter of Karl Marx, 1873. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454371 Born 1818 in Trier, Prussia; studied at the University of Bonn, 1835-1836, and the University of Berlin, 1836-1841; contributor to and editor of the Cologne liberal democratic newspaper, the Rheinische Zeitung , 1842; following marriage to Jenny von Westphalen, moved to Paris, where he became a revolutionary and communist; co-editor, with Arnold Ruge, of a new r...

Trotsky School (Socialist Workers Party. New York City Branch).

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Rosenshine, Daniel, 1946-1993

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Le Sueur, Meridel

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Meridel Le Sueur was born February 22, 1900, in Murray, Iowa. She did not finish high school, dropping out before the First World War. She began writing at the age of fifteen. Largely self-taught, Miss Le Sueur attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She came to know John Reed and met Theodore Dreiser and Edna St. Vincent Millay at Mabel Dodge's literary salon. She won acclaim in 1927 for her story Persephone and again in 1934 for The Horse. She was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. S...

Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Dennett, Eugene

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