Sandra Gordon Patrinos Papers undated

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...

Communist Party of the United States of America (Ill.)

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Patrinos, Sandra Gordon, 1941-2000

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Patrinos (1941-2000) was a peace and social justice activist in Chicago. Born in Philadelphia, as a youth the worked with Youth Marches for Integrated School and with "Teens Ahead," which sponsored interracial dances at the YWCA, and later, she became the Communist Party USA's District Organizer for its Eastern Pennsylvania / Delaware district. Patrinos also served on the Party's National Committee. In 1991, the year of the fall of the Soviet Union, she joined the Committees of Correspondence, f...