Lawrence Maxwell Papers undated

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Lawrence Maxwell Papers undated

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Lawrence Maxwell (1909-1991) was a Socialist activist and created and led the Harvard University Socialist Club from 1928-1930. He later became a Communist and then Trotskyist, and later in his life worked in the publishing industry. The collection mostly contains clippings about his work and arrests as a Socialist leader while at Harvard. Biographical material pertaining to Maxwell is also contained in the collection.

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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Maxwell, Lawrence, 1909-1991

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Lawrence Maxwell (born Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., October 20, 1909.) briefly attended Harvard University, where he founded the Harvard University Socialist Club in 1928. He became an atheist and changed his name to not be identified as Jewish. In the Socialist party, he went by Albert Robertson (which was his grandfather's name). During his sophmore year, he left Harvard and became a member of the Young Communist League (YCL), and later he became a Trotskyist for a short time. Maxwell ...

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