Frances Nacke Noel/Job Harriman papers, 1889-1986 (bulk 1940-1980).

Berger, Victor L. (Victor Luitpold), 1860-1929

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Victor Luitpold Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America. Born in the Austrian Empire, Berger immigrated to the United States as a young man and became an important and influential socialist journalist in Wisconsin. He helped establish the so-called Sewer Socialist movement. Also a politician, in 1910, he was elected...

Darrow, Clarence S. (Clarence Seward), 1857-1938

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Clarence Seward Darrow, prominent Chicago trial lawyer, was born in Kinsman, Ohio on April 18, 1857. He attended Allegheny College, after which he studied one year at the University of Michigan Law School. He then worked as a lawyer in Youngstown, and was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1878. He practiced in Ohio for nine years, before moving to Chicago, where he practiced privately before being appointed assistant corporation counsel for the City of Chicago. For four years he served as Chi...

Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926

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Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. Early in his political career, Debs...

Wage Earners' Suffrage League (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Mellon, Knox, 1925-

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Holliday, J. S

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Jaquelin Smith Holliday II was born on June 10, 1924 in Indianapolis, and served in the United States Navy during World War II. He graduated from Yale University in 1948 with a degree in history and was prepared to enter his family's steel business when noted rare book dealer Ed Eberstadt showed Holliday William Swain's 1849 diary of his journey to California, suggesting that it could be the basis of an important book. Holliday took Eberstadt's advice and began work on what was originally titled...

Shaffer, Ralph E.

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Socialist Labor Party (U.S.)

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Harriman, Job.

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Pickett, George T., 1876-1959.

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George T. Pickett was a socialist, a member, and later a leader of the Llano Colony, a cooperative society which was organized in California in 1914. In 1918, part of the colony migrated to Newllano (sometimes called New Llano), Louisiana, near Leesville in Vernon Parish. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505666 ...

Turner, Ethel Duffy, 1885-1969

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Park, Alice, 1861-1961

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Alice Locke Park, feminist, reformer, and pacifist, was born in Boston in 1861 but lived most of her life in California. She was active in both national and international organizations for the improvement of prison conditions, labor laws, humane education, wild life conservation, and the preservation of natural resources. Her primary interest, however, was in women's rights, and she was assistant director of the Susan B. Anthony Memorial Committee of California. From the description ...

Sanford, Marvin.

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Marvin Sanford, labor supporter and socialist, was the son of DeForest Sanford, another notable socialist. In the 1890s, the Sanford family moved to Washington State where DeForest Sanford established the "Peoples Advocate," a newspaper for the Social Democratic party; he also edited the official paper of the Knights of the Labor Advocate. The Sanfords later moved to Santa Cruz, California. The Sanford family also spent many years living at the Llano del Rio Colony in Antelope Valley, California...

Los Angeles Times (Firm)

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Biography The Times building at First and Broadway, Los Angeles, was dynamited by union terrorists on Oct. 1, 1910; 20 employees were killed, many injured, and the building destroyed; James B. McNamara and John J. McNamara signed a confession admitting their guilt for the bombing, Dec. 2, 1911. From the guide to the Collection of photographs related to the Los Angeles Times bombing, ca. 1912, (University of California, Los Angeles...

Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Whitnall, Gordon

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Hillquit, Morris, 1869-1933

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American socialist leader. From the description of Morris Hillquit miscellanea, 1924-1934. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871697 Morris Hillquit (1896-1933) was a socialist leader, lawyer, author and prominent theoretician of the Socialist Pary. He ran twice for mayor of New York City and five times for the House of Representatives, always unsuccessfully. From the guide to the Morris Hillquit Papers, 1906-1959, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

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Charles F. Lummis (1859-1928) was born in Lynn, Massachusettts. He became an editor for the Los Angeles Times on February 1, 1884, working for Harrison Gray Otis. He promoted interest in the American Southwest with his photography and articles. Lummis helped found the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles and the School of American Research in Santa Fe. The items from librarian Mary Sarber concern her research of Mr. Lummis' writings. From the guide to the Charles F. Lummis Collection, S27...

Otis, Harrison Gray, 1837-1917

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Younger, Maud, 1870-1936

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Maud Younger was born Jan. 10, 1870 to a wealthy family in San Francisco, CA. She began her activism work after visiting New York College Settlement House. While in New York City, she joined the New York Waitresses' Union. Younger later worked as a waitress in San Francisco and organized the city's first Waitresses' Union, serving as first president. In 1908 she helped found the San Francisco Wage Earners' Suffrage League. She is well known for giving the memorial keynote at the funeral of Inez ...

Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance

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Ghent, William J. (William James), 1866-1942

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Author and journalist. From the description of Papers of William J. Ghent, 1876-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063264 Biographical Note 1866, Apr. 29 Born, Frankfort, Ind. 1894 Founder, Social Reform Club, New York, N.Y. 1...

Hill, Joe, 1879-1915

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McNamara, John J.

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London, Jack, 1876-1916

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Jack London was born in San Francisco January 12, 1876. He led an adventurous life, only beginning his career as an author in the 1890s. He wrote short stories, serials, essays, articles, verse and novels. He died November 22, 1916 in Sonoma County, CA. From the description of Jack London papers, 1897-1916. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122387554 American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Chronometer method [navigational documents] [1907?]...

Millsap, Walter, 1886-1971

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Walter Millsap was from 1916 to 1919 an active member of the utopian Llano colony, a socialist community which moved from its original location in California to Louisiana in 1917. Millsap was trustee of United Co-Operative Industries and head of the Llano Co-Operative Association. Keikichi Akana Imamura was a salesman for Millsap's United Co-Operative Industries before World War II and an adjunct professor in Oriental languages at Yale University in the fall of 1945. ...

De Leon, Daniel, 1852-1914

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Hine, Robert V., 1921-....

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Robert V. Hine is a prominent historian of the American West. Hine earned his Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1952 and spent a year as a fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California before accepting a faculty position at the University of California, Riverside in 1954. Hine remained a member of the History Department at UC Riverside for most of his long career. A prolific writer, Hine authored numerous historical monographs and edited volumes, several textbooks, two person...

Flores Magón, Ricardo, 1873-1922

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McNamara, James B. (James Barnabas), 1882-1941

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James B. NcNamara and his brother were tried and convicted of bombing the Los Angeles Times Building. James H. Maurer was president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. A.J. Muste was chairman faculty at Brookwood, Inc., Katonah, N.Y. From the description of James B. McNamara correspondence from prison with James H. Maurer and Philip Grosser, 1923-1929. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 53865489 John J. and James B. McNamara were...

Miller, Sally M., 1937-....

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Interviews with 65 immigrant women of Stockton, Calif. (1981). Most came to United States between 1920 and 1950. 27 ethnic origins range from Argentine to Vietnamese. Many of these women worked, some on farms, some in food processing, some as teachers, some as dressmakers and some as restaurateurs. From the description of Stockton immigrant women, 1980-1986. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 35336167 ...

Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Noel, Frances Nacke, 1873-1963.

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Social-Democratic Party of America

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The Social Democratic Party was established in 1898 as a result of a split in the Social Democracy of America (SDA). Organized by Eugene V. Debs on 15 June 1897, the SDA consisted of members from the American Railway Union and the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth. Shortly after its inception, SDA split between the 'colonizationalists' who supported DEbs' scheme to form a socialist sate in one of the states of the union; and the 'political wing' which emphasized a concrete...