Political materials, 1929-1963.

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Political materials, 1929-1963.

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Posters, photographs, circulars, periodicals, and some correspondence that originated with Puerto Rican civic, social, and political organizations. Organizations represented include Club Hijas del Caribe; Luchadores del Porvenir Puertorriqueno; Liga Puertorriquena e Hispana; Mutualista Hispano-Americana; American Labor Party, Kings County; Club Pasionaria, Communist Party; Vanguardia Puertorriquena; International Workers Order (IWO); Sociedad Fraternal Cervantes; Puerto Rican Hurricane Welfare Committee of Brooklyn; and Democratic Party groups.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Liga Puertorriqueña e Hispana.

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Vanguardia Puertorriqueña.

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Puerto Rican Hurricane Welfare Committee of Brooklyn.

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Mutualista Hispano-Americana.

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American Labor Party (Kings County, N.Y.)

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International Workers Order

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The International Workers Order (IWO), a Communist-affiliated, ethnically organized fraternal order, was founded in 1930 following a split from the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish labor fraternal order. Max Bedacht, the IWO general secretary from 1932-1946, also served on the Communist Party's Political Bureau. At its peak, shortly after World War II, the IWO had almost 200,000 members, including 50,000 in the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order. The IWO provided low-cost health and life insurance, medi...

Sociedad Fraternal Cervantes.

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Club Pasionaria, Communist Party.

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Luchadores del Porvenir Puertorriqueño.

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Democratic Party (N.Y.)

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Club Hijas del Caribe.

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Colon, Emilia.

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Colón, Jesús, 1901-

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Writer, activist and organizer. Colón was born in Puerto Rico in 1901 and arrived in New York in 1917. He was a founder of the first Puerto Rican organizations in New York such as the Alianza Obrera Puertorriqueña and La Liga Puertorriqueña e Hispana. He was also head of the Spanish section of the International Workers Order (IWO), the Sociedad Fraternal Cervantes. Colón was a prolific writer and published one of the first books on the Puerto Rican migration experience in the English languag...