Nels and Fair Taylor Ekroth Photograph Collection ca. 1945-1952

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Nels and Fair Taylor Ekroth Photograph Collection ca. 1945-1952

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Photographs of prominent Progressive Party members, including Henry Wallace, Vincent Hallinan, Charlotta Bass, and W.E.B. Dubois, and political rallies and protests in the 1940s and 1950s.

13 photographic prints; 1 box, 1 oversize folder

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University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6363808

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Ekroth, Nels S.

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Nels Ekroth and his wife, Fair Taylor Ekroth (1910-1990), were civil rights activists and supported various labor movements, political rallies, and protests during the 1940s and 1950s. Fair Taylor Ekroth was an officer of the Progressive Party in 1948 and the two met in Seattle in 1949, when both were working for the Progressive Party. Nels was investigated by the Committee for Un-American Activities and lost his job on Seattle's waterfront as a result. From the guide to...

Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

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Curtis MacDougall was born on February 11, 1903, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He started his career as a journalist there at the Fond du Lac Commonwealth-Reporter at the age of fifteen. He received a BA in English from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1923. He went on to obtain a Master's from Northwestern University in 1926 and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1933. After working at several newspapers, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1935. During the depress...

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Hallinan, Vincent

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Julius Lazarus

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Fred Carter

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Jo Banks

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Ekroth, Fair Taylor

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Carter, Fred, Jr.

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Standard Photo Service Co.

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Al Smith

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