Upton Sinclair campaign : scrapbooks, 1933-1935.

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

End Poverty in California (EPIC)

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Smith, Lorna D. (Lorna Dysart), 1897-1981.

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Lorna Dysart Smith was born in Centralia, Washington, 1897. She worked as a student nurse and as a researcher for novelist Theodore Dreiser (1938-1945), but is noted as a civil rights and social reform worker. She died in San Jose, California, January 11, 1981. From the description of Lorna D. Smith papers, 1930-1981 (inclusive), 1965-1975 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500024 Includes some items of correspondence to W. A. Swanberg from Bernice Smith, daughter-in-...