Eugene P. Link papers, 1907-1993.

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Eugene P. Link papers, 1907-1993.

Correspondence with Herbert Aptheker, Lee H. Ball, Merle Curti, Buell Gallagher, Corliss Lamont, and others, 1941-91; lecture notes and course papers, 1951-1977; and research files on Harry F. Ward (1873-1966), American medical history, and other subjects, n.d. Link retained the records of the Religious Freedom Committee for the years 1955-64, including minutes of its Administrative Committee, financial and membership records, its newsletter "Religious Freedom News", and occasional publications. The Religious Freedom Committee was an interfaith, interracial group founded in New York City to work for the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment.

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Historian and activist. Link studied at the College of Emporia, Kansas; the University of Chicago; and Union Theological Seminary. During the time documented by the bulk of these papers he was professor of history at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh. From the description of Eugene P. Link papers, 1945-1992 (bulk 1970-1972). (Columbia University in the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 312368695 Biographical note: American historian. ...

Lamont, Corliss, 1902-1995

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Religious Freedom Committee.

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Ball, Lee H.

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Gallagher, Buell G. (Buell Gordon), 1904-

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Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

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American Marxist author, lecturer, and apologist. From the guide to the Herbert Aptheker letter to Mrs. Doares, 1970, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Noted Marxist scholar Dr. Herbert Aptheker was born in New York City in 1915. His more than thirty published books include such titles as THE ERA OF McCARTHYISM (1957), THE WORLD OF C. WRIGHT MILLS (1960), THE URGENCY OF MARXIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE (1970), but he is best known for hi...