Records, 1938-1976.

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Randolph, A. Philip, 1889-1979

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Asa Philip Randolph (born April 15, 1889, Cresent City, Florida-died May 16, 1979, New York City), African-American labor leader and early civil rights spokesman. Influenced by the socialism of Eugene Debs, Randolph began publishing his magazine The Messenger in 1917. He opposed U.S. entry into the first World War. In 1925 he organized the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. His associations with Bayard Rustin and James Farmer influenced his dedication to nonviolence. Randolph was a founder of ...

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977

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Lewis Blaine Hershey (September 12, 1893 – May 20, 1977) was the Director of the Selective Service System of the United States. An Indiana native, Hershey joined the National Guard in 1911. His unit served at the Mexican border in 1916. After World War I, he moved to the Army and became a captain in 1920. He also taught military science at Ohio State University and, as a active volunteer, earned several prestigious Scouting awards. In 1936, he was made secretary of the Joint Army and Navy Selec...

Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959

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Architect, designer; Illinois, Wisconsin and Arizona. From the description of Frank Lloyd Wright textile design studies, [ca. 1955]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86122971 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an American Architect internationally recognized for his distinctive Prairie Style houses, innovative building design, Taliesin school and fellowships, and philosophy of "organic architecture." From the guide to the Frank Lloyd Wright Miscel...

Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965

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Henry Agard Wallace (October 7, 1888 – November 18, 1965) was an American politician, journalist, and farmer who served as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, the 33rd vice president of the United States, and the 10th U.S. Secretary of Commerce. He was also the presidential nominee of the left-wing Progressive Party in the 1948 election. The oldest son of Henry C. Wallace, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1921 to 1924, Henry A. Wallace was born in Adair County, Iowa in...

Bradley, Omar Nelson, 1893-1981

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Omar Nelson Bradley (February 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, holding the rank of General of the Army. Bradley was the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War. Born in Randolph County, Missouri, Bradley worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenh...

McCarthy, Henry L., 1902-1979

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Public administrator. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry L. McCarthy: oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736314 ...

Jewish Theological Seminary of America

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Collecting area: Materials dealing with all aspects of Jewish life. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155524648 The Jewish Theological Seminary of America moved into its new campus at 3080 Broadway in the Morningside Heights section of New York City in 1930. The complex was designed by the architectural firm Gehron and Ross, with David Levy, Associate Architect. The construction of the buildings was funded by donations from Louis ...

Coffin, Henry Sloane, 1877-1954

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Institute for Interdenominational Studies.

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Dean, Gordon E., 1905-1958

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Lawyer. From the description of Reminiscences of Gordon Evans Dean : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309732498 ...

Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

Young, Andrew J. L. (Andrew John L.), 1954-

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Transcultural Seminar on Tradition and Change ( 1966-1969: New York).

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Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972

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Educator, sociologist, scholar, and author. From the description of Horace Mann Bond papers, 1830-1979 (bulk 1926-1972). (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 48383227 Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972), African American educator, sociologist, and author. Bond married Julia Agnes Washington (1908-2007), author and librarian, in 1930. The Bonds had three children: Marguerite Jane (1938-), Horace Julian (1940-), and James George (1944-). From the des...

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Reinhold Niebuhr and his wife, Ursula Niebuhr. From the description of Letters, 1935-1982, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873776 Theologian, philosopher, and author. From the description of Papers of Reinhold Niebuhr, 1907-1994 (bulk 1930-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063622 Theologian. From the description of Reminiscences of Reinhold Niebuhr...

MacIver, Robert M. (Robert Morrison), 1882-1970

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Morrison MacIver : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309736032 Lieber Professor of Political Philosophy and Sociology at Columbia University. MacIver was author of numerous works on sociology, political power, and juvenile delinquency. After he retired from Columbia in 1950, he served on the City of New York Juvenile Delinquency Evaluatio...

Tobias, Channing H.

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Institute for Religious and Social Studies. World Academy of Ethics.

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Baron, Salo W. (Salo Wittmayer), 1895-1989

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Biography Salo Wittmayer Baron was instrumental in establishing Jewish Studies as an academic discipline in the United States. An extraordinarily prolific historian, Baron also played an exceptional role in American Jewish organizational life. Baron was born in 1895 in Tarnow, now in Poland but then part of Austrian Galicia. His parents, Elias Baron and Minna Wittmayer Baron, were orthodox Jews, and Elias Baron was a banker and Jewish communi...

La Farge, John, 1880-1963

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La Farge was a Jesuit priest. From the description of Papers of John La Farge [manuscript], 1938-1939. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647836098 Jesuit priest and author of works on race relations and religion; son of American artist John La Farge (1835-1910). From the description of John La Farge papers, 1899-1952. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58780451 ...

Jernick, William.

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Bennett, John C., DOrth

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Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Institute for Religious and Social Studies

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The Institute for Religious and Social Studies, founded at the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1938 as the Institute for Interdenominational Studies (later the Institute for Religious Studies) was primarily an interfaith coninuing education program for members of the clergy. At its Tuesday lecture series at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, sessions in Chicago (begun 1944) and Boston (begun 1945), theological student programs, and other gatherings, participants discussed c...

Parsons, Talcott, 1902-1979

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Talcott Parsons : oral history, 1967. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122631875 Talcott Parsons (1902-1979) was an educator and scholar of sociology. He contributed to the field of sociological theory, particularly through his development of a "general theory of action." Parsons spent most of his professional career at Harvard University, where he was affiliated with the various incarnat...

Institute for Religious Studies.

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Gould, Beatrice Blackmar

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Albright, William Foxwell, 1891-1971

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Orientalist, Professor of Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University, 1929-1958. From the description of Papers, 1916-1972 (inclusive). (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 181964363 William Foxwell Albright was an Orientalist, archaeologist, and linguist. He received his Ph.D. from John Hopkins in 1916 and then took a professorship there in 1927, and was the W. W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, 1930-1958. Albright was the ...

Institute for Religious and Social Studies.

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Feingold, Jessica, 1910-

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Meany, George, 1894-1980

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Labor official; interviewee d.1980. From the description of Reminiscences of George Meany : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587289 President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1980. George Meany (1894-1980) was elected president of the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) in 1952. His efforts to unite his organization with its rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), was successful, and he was ...

Kennedy, Stephen Jay

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Bryson, Lyman

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Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Lyman Lloyd Bryson : oral history, 1951. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131513 Radio and television broadcaster, author, and educator. Full name: Lyman Lloyd Bryson. From the description of Lyman Bryson papers, 1893-1978 (bulk 1917-1959). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980008 Biographical Note ...

Bettelheim, Bruno

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Seminar On Enhancement of Civilization in New York City ( 1971-1973: New York).

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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978

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American anthropologist. From the description of Letter 1968 June 12. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38156541 Anthropologist. From the description of Collection re Margaret Mead, 1978-1979. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131863 Anthropologist, author, and educator. From the description of Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996 (bulk 1911-1978). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068917 M...

Starr, Mark, 1984-.

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Proskauer, Joseph M. (Joseph Meyer), 1877-1971

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Naumburg's brother-in-law; judge on New York State's Supreme Court. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1959-1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585596 Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph M. Proskauer : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723111 ...

Swope, Herbert Bayard, 1882-1958

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Epithet: of the River Club New York British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00016e Bernard Mannes Baruch was a financier and head of several war committees, including chairman of the War Industries Board, 1918-1919, and U.S. representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, 1946. From the guide to the Speech before the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946, 1946, (Amer...

MacDonald, David J.

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Cousins, Norman.

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American editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature" from 1940-1977. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1960 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868047 Editor, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376635 From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : lecture, 1959. (Colum...

Commager, Henry Steele, 1902-1998

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Historian. From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager : oral history, [196-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122619921 From the description of Reminiscences of Henry Steele Commager : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309728956 American historian. From the description of The price of Eire's neutrality : printed, 1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record i...

Institute for Religious and Social Studies. Institute on Ethics.

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Bokser, Ben Zion, 1907-1984

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Finkelstein, Louis, 1895-1991

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Chancellor, Jewish Theological Seminary of America. From the description of Correspondence to Chaim Potok, 1955-1981. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 700038813 ...