Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman Research Files on African Americans and Communism Bulk, 1919-1939 1919-1993 , (Bulk 1919-1939)
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Huiswoud, Otto Eduard Gerardus Majella, 1893-1961
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Otto Huiswoud was the first black member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), as well as one of its founders. He was born in Paramaribo, Suriname (then the Dutch colony of Surinam), on October 23, 1893, to Rudolf Huiswoud, an ex-slave, and Jacqueline Bernard Huiswoud. In Surinam, Huiswoud worked as a printing apprentice until shipping out on a Dutch banana boat in 1910. In 1913 he jumped ship in Brooklyn, New York, to escape poor conditions on board and began working o...
Solomon, Mark I.
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Mark Solomon is the author of The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936, published in 1998. He taught U.S. history at Simmons College from 1967 to 1997. The late Robert Kaufman created and accumulated his portion of this collection during research at the University of California, Berkeley, on his incomplete doctoral thesis on African American labor and communism. From the description of Research files on African-Americans and communism, 1919-1993 (bulk 1919-1939)...
Kaufman, Robert
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