Papers of Frances Siegel, 1927-2008

Black Panther Party

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The Black Panther Party was founded in October 1966 by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale as an organization dedicated to protecting and uplifting the Black population of Oakland. As the organization grew this focus spread to the rest of the United States and even abroad. The armed militancy and Marxist rhetoric employed by the Black Panthers, along with their philosophy of Black self-government caught the attention of both local law enforcement authorities and the FBI. As a result, many in the Pant...

Century of Progress International Exhibition (1933-34 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The Century of Progress Exposition, the World's Fair, was held in Chicago, 1933-1934. From the description of Records, 1933-1934 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007613 A Century of Progress International Exposition was held in Chicago during the summers of 1933 and 1934. The fair celebrated the scientific and technological advances made in the century since the founding of Chicago in 1833. The main features of the fair included exhibits depicting th...

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Health

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St 1869, c 420 established the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, generally known as the State Board of Health. It was abolished by St 1879, c 291, which transferred its functions to the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. St 1886, c 101 renamed that body the State Board of Lunacy and Charity and reestablished the State Board of Health. The board was succeeded in turn by the State Department of Health (St 1914, c 792) amd the Department of Public Health (S...

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

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Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953, succeeding upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt after serving as the 34th vice president in early 1945. He implemented the Marshall Plan to rebuild the economy of Western Europe and established the Truman Doctrine and NATO to contain communist expansion. He proposed numerous liberal domestic reforms, but few were enacted by the Conservative Coalition that dominated Congres...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-2012

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George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 – October 21, 2012) was an American politician, historian, U.S. representative, U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he was a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country's entry into World War II and as a B-24 Liberator pilot flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals besto...

Brandeis University

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Private research university with liberal arts focus; located in Waltham, Mass. From the description of Brandeis University correspondence, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733080419 From the description of Brandeis University records, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733069438 Collection materials date from 1923-2009, with the bulk of the collection being published during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. These rich resources detail the politics, economics, ...

Paul Emerson

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Dirk Jan Struik

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Consumers' League of New York City

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The Consumer's League of New York City was formed in 1891 as a result of a report made in 1890 by Alice Woodbridge, secretary of the Working Women's Society, the forerunner of the Women's Trade Union League. This report enumerated the deplorable working conditions and long hours under which women engaged in the retail trade had to work. A small group of women proceeded to organize the league, whose first activity was to prepare a white list of shops paying minimum fair wages and hav...

Medard Bourgault

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Vinnedge, Dorothy

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Mehatā, Rameśa, 1923-

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Upendra Bhatt

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Henry Alper

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T. Y. Hu

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Bhatt, Upendra

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Jacobs, Fannie

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Communist Party

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Cecchini, Marcella

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Siegel, Frances, 1909-2006.

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Frances Siegel, labor activist, graduated from Radcliffe College (A.B. 1931), and held secretarial positions in Cambridge, Massachusetts at ISIS magazine (1934-1952) where she worked for George Sarton, and with Harvard chemistry professor Arthur Lamb. She later worked in the biochemistry department of Brandeis University. Her major interests and activities lay in the labor movement and in peace and social justice organizations. She was volunteer secretary for the Labor Research Association, 1934...

Alper, Lifcha

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The National Conference on Christians and Jews

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Abraham Lincoln Battalion

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Amigos de la Biblioteca

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Roth, Muriel

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Wendall L. Wilkie

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Green, Shiva

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May Sarton

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Replansky, Fannie

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Alaska Federation of Natives

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Cohen, I. Bernard

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Green, Celia

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Bill Sullivan

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Labor Research Association (U.S.)

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Son of an attorney, Robert Dunn (1895-1977) was born in Pennsylvania. After graduation from Yale in 1918, he worked in New England for the Amalgamated Textile Workers Unions as an organizer and economic researcher. In 1920 Dunn helped established the New England Civil Liberties Union. A close friend of Roger Baldwin’s he also served on the national American Civil Liberties Union’s Executive Committee from 1923-1941. In the 1920s Dunn focussed his attention on events in the Soviet Union, travelin...

Russak, Martin

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Anne Cameron

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Massachusetts Trade Union Educational League

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Carnegie Institute

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Warsaw, Harry

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Jackson, George

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Epithet: of the Scottish National Reform League British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000f6 Epithet: of Add MS 37682 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0x0000f5 Epithet: Under Secretary to the Admiralty British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000214.0...

Tsi Pei Hu

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Sullivan, Bill, 1942-2010

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Frances Cohen's

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Kollwitz, Kaethe

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Amigos de la Biblioteca/Lake Atitlan Libraries, Inc.

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Celia Green

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Europe

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National Student League (U.S.)

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Hugo Anderson

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Chase, Elba

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United States. National Recovery Administration

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Melyssa Bravemen

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Goding, Rose

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Sarton, George, 1884-1956

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Historian of science, George Alfred Leon Sarton was born on August 31, 1884, in Ghent, Belgium. He studied the natural sciences at the University of Ghent, and received his D.Sc. in 1911. Escaping to England before World War I, Sarton then came to the United States in 1915. After spending some time in lecturing positions, Sarton came to Harvard University in 1920, was made a full professor there in 1940 and retired in 1951 when he was made professor emeritus. He was founder of th...

Wolfson, Harry Austryn, 1887-1974

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Wolfson graduated from Harvard in 1912 and taught Hebrew literature and philosophy at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Harry Austryn Wolfson, 1915-1958 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973224 Wolfson earned his AB in three years. He graduated from Harvard in 1911 as a member of the Class of 1912. He earned his Harvard Ph.D. in 1915. He compiled this scrapbook while an undergraduate student at Harvard and added a few loose documents later. He...

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. January 15, 1929, Atlanta, Georgia –d. April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to M...

Balayan, Leo

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Ellsworth Vinnedge

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Pogo, Alexander, 1893-

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Alexander Pogo was an astronomer and classical scholar born in Russia in 1893. He served as the librarian for the Mount Wilson Observatory located in Pasadena, California. From the description of Papers of Alexander Pogo, 1952-1959. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 462997178 ...

Bourgault, Jean-Julien, 1910-

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Adolf Hitler

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Gordon, Hy

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Russak, Mary Siegel

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Rothschild, Joel, 1957-

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Tess Oliver

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Pandya, Anant (Anant Hiralal), 1909-1951.

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Ridemour, Maude

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Rubin, Ruth.

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Ruth Rubin was a folkorist and a noted performer of Yiddish folksong. Her performances in New York included recitals at Carnegie Hall and at Town Hall. She was born in Montreal in 1906. From the guide to the Ruth Rubin Collection of Yiddish folksong and folklore [sound recording] :, 1947-1966, (The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.) ...

Inma, Gladilina

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Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was the 40th President of the United States and served two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. He was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the second son of Nelle Wilson and John Edward ("Jack") Reagan. His father nicknamed him "Dutch" as a baby. In 1920 the family resettled in Dixon, Illinois. In 1928 Reagan graduated from Dixon High School, where he had been student body president, an actor in school plays, and a student athlete. He partici...

Fannie Siegel Jacobs

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Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Markin, Anne

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Confederacion General de Trabajadored del Peru

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Radcliffe College. Class of 1931

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Vannevar Bush

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Marcella Cecchini

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National Student League (U.S.)

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...