Guide to the Peter Martin and Roberta Bobba Materials on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1856-1964

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Guide to the Peter Martin and Roberta Bobba Materials on Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1856-1964

1856-1964

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Most of the materials in this collection concern Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World, a noted writer and orator, and a prominent functionary of the Communist Party USA. The collection is comprised primarily of correspondence between Carlo Tresca and Bina Flynn, obituaries of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, documents relating to the court case United States vs. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1954), Flynn's financial records and passports, and correspondence and documents related to the trial and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. This small collection was donated to the Tamiment Library by Roberta Bobba, half sister of Peter Martin. Peter Martin was the son of Carlo Tresca and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's sister Bina (who later married Romulo Bobba and became the mother of Roberta Bobba).

0.5 Linear Feet in one manuscript box.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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Bobba, Roberta

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Tresca, Carlo, 1879-1943

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Martin, Peter, 1923-

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Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939-2015

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