Guide to the Edith Chevat Papers, 1930-1952

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Guide to the Edith Chevat Papers, 1930-1952

1930-1952

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/tamwag/tam_247/tam_247.html

This unprocessed collection contains printed ephemera (including ephemeral serials), and internal documents of Communist Party USA and Communist Party led organizations, including the Young Communist League (YCL), the American Student Union and American Youth for Democracy. The collection documents Communist activity at Brooklyn College, particularly anti-war activity of the period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact (1939-1941), and campus free speech issues. There is also some YCL material from Brooklyn's New Utrecht neighborhood and high school.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6331493

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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Brooklyn College. Theatre Research Data Center

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Chevat, Edith

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American Youth for Democracy

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Chevat, Isadore

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Young Communist League of the U.S.

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New Utrecht High School

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American Student Union

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The American Student Union was founded in 1935 in Columbus, Ohio. It was a left-leaning organization of high school and college students stressing pacifism, human rights, unionism, anti-fascism, and support for the Spanish Republic. From the description of American Student Union papers, 1936-1941 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702167250 From the guide to the American Student Union papers, 1936-1941, (Manuscripts and Archives) ...