Guide to the Marvin Markman Papers, 1960s

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Guide to the Marvin Markman Papers, 1960s

1960s

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Marvin Markman (d. 2002) was a Communist Party member, and was also the Executive Vice President of Advance, a radical youth organization. Markman later became a public school teacher in New York City and a leader of the Party's rank and file activism in the United Federation of Teachers, via the Teachers Action Caucus, and in the American Federation of Teachers, via the United Action Caucus. The collection consists of subject files and correspondence relating to Advance, as well as court transcripts and documents relating to trials of Marvin Markman and his associates before the Subversive Activities Control Board in the 1960s.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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United States. Subversive Activities Control Board

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The United States Subversive Activities Control Board was created in 1950 in conjunction with enactment of the Internal Security Act of 1950. This act, known as the McCarran Act after its author Senator Pat McCarran, did not outlaw the Communist Party but sought to secure its control through regulation (or perhaps more likely, its dissolution rather than submit to such control). It required registration with the United States government of domestic "communist-action organizations" (defined as or...

Advance (Organization : United States).

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Markman, Susan

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Markman, Marvin, d. 2002

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Marvin Markman (d. 2002) was a Communist Party member, and was also the Executive Vice President of Advance, a radical youth organization. Markman later became a public school teacher in New York City and a leader of the Party's rank and file activism in the United Federation of Teachers, via the Teachers Action Caucus, and in the American Federation of Teachers, via the United Action Caucus. From the guide to the Marvin Markman Papers, 1960s, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...