Grace Carlson papers. 1929-1986.

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Grace Carlson papers. 1929-1986.

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Biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings, speech transcripts, lecture notes, photographs, and miscellaneous materials relating largely to Carlson's activities in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) (1939-1949) and as a professor of psychology at St. Mary's Junior College, Minneapolis (1954-1986). Carlson resigned from the party in the early 1950s, and retired from St. Mary's in 1979, but remained on its faculty as a volunteer.

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Carlson, Grace, 1906-

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Grace Carlson, Socialist Workers Party activist and political contender, was born in St. Paul (Minn.) on November 14, 1906, the daughter of James A. and Mary (Nuebel) Holmes. She was educated in Catholic Schools in St. Paul, graduated from the College of St. Catherine in 1929, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1930 and 1933 respectively. From 1933 to 1940 she was a lecturer at the university and a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the ...

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Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was officially formed on April 15, 1944, the result of a merger of the existing Democratic Party and the Farmer-Labor Party. Although the two entities had competed vigorously throughout their pasts, they had been brought into closer harmony through their mutual support of New Deal programs, through Popular Front collaborations during World War II, and through a realistic acceptance of the fact that they were effectively splitting the s...

St. Mary's Junior College (Minneapolis, Minn.)

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Farmer-Labor Party (Minn.)

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Dunne, Vincent R. (Vincent Raymond), 1889-1970

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Dunne became active in the IWW while a migrant worker on the West Coast and in 1920 joined the Communist Party. He was a major organizer of the 1934 Truckers' Strike and an active Trotskyite throughout his life. From the description of Oral history interview with Vincent Raymond Dunne, 1969 April 27. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 45441450 ...

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Civil Rights Defense Committee

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United States. Federal Industrial Institution for Women, Alderson, W. Va.

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