Guide to the Investigation Files of the Rapp-Coudert Committee, 1919-1953

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...

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) ...

Spain. Ejército Popular de la República. Brigada Internacional, XV

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Brooklyn College. Theatre Research Data Center

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Curator's Office was renamed Bursar's Office. From the description of Curator's reports, 1934-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155451274 The Ditmas House was a Dutch style wooden frame house built in 1827 and occupied by the Ditmas family. A century later, Charles Ditmas, the founder of Kings County Historical Society, helped to make way for Brooklyn's Ditmas farmhouse to become the site for part of the Brooklyn College campus. In 1935, the Ditmas House passed into the c...

Schappes, Morris U. (Morris Urman), 1907-

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Born Moishe Shapshilevich in 1907 in Kamenetz-Podolsk, Ukraine, Schappes was raised in Brazil and moved with his parents to New York in 1914. Earning his Bachelor of Arts at City College and his Master of Arts at Columbia University, he joined the faculty of City College as an English lecturer in 1928. As a scholar, Schappes first achieved prominence for his work on the poetry and letters of Emma Lazarus, published in a series of books and monographs between 1944 and 1987. His broader historical...

Foner, Moe, 1915-

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Labor union organizer. From the description of Reminiscences of Moe Foner: oral history, 1986. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737252 ...

Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994

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Philip Foner, a prominent and prolific historian of the American labor movement, was born in 1910. Radicalized by the Great Depression, he has been politically close to the Communist Party, and taught courses at several of its schools for workers. While he is best known for his multi-volume History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Foner is the author and editor of dozens of books, pamphlets and articles. For many years, Foner taught at Lincoln College, in Pennsylvania. Fro...

Dodd, Bella Visono, 1904-

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Gideonse, Harry David, 1901-1985

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Educator, author, President of Brooklyn College, 1939-1966. From the description of Papers, 1925-1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155453746 Educator, College president. From the description of Reminiscences of Harry David Gideonse : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734431 ...

College of the City of New York (1926-1961). City College

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Foner, Jack D.

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Historian and pioneer in black studies. From the description of Jack D. Foner papers, 1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 698184234 ...

Young Communist League of the U.S.

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Hendley, Charles J.

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Charles James Hendley (1881-1962) was a teacher, education reform advocate, political activist and union leader. A member of the Teachers Union of the City of New York (Teachers Union of NYC) from 1921 until his death, he served as its president from 1935-1945.Born in North Carolina on June 4, 1881, Hendley was the son of Alvis Francis Hendley, a section foreman on the Southern Railway who was a pioneer in organizing the maintenance-of-way men on the southern railroads. After attending local sch...

New York (State). Legislature. Joint Legislative Committee to Investigate the Educational System of the State of New York

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The Joint Legislative Committee of the State Education System, chaired by Assemblyman Herbert A. Rapp, was created by concurrent resolution of the New York State Senate and Assembly on March 29, 1940. The Committee was given broad authority to investigate the administration and financing of education in the state, and to study "the extent, if any, to which subversive activities may have been permitted to exist in the schools and colleges of the public educational system of the City ...

College Teachers Union of New York City.

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Foner, Henry

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Henry J. Foner (1919- ), longtime activist leader of the Joint Board, Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union (FLM), grew up in New York, in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. His father had a seltzer delivery route, and later owned a garage. In high school, Foner started playing saxophone with a band at hotels in the Catskills. He also started composing comic verses, played to the tunes of popular songs. By the late 1930s, Foner had acquired an interest in history and politics fr...