Papers, 1901-1974; bulk: 1920-1970.

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Papers, 1901-1974; bulk: 1920-1970.

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Collection contains correspondence with his wife Concha and political activists in Puerto Rico such as Juan Saéz Corales and César Andreu Iglesias; minutes, reports, programs, flyers, souvenir journals; writings including typescripts of sketches and notes for articles and lectures, clippings, photographs. Richly documents Puerto Rican organizations and Puerto Rican politics, with subject files on the IWO and CPUSA.

18.55 cubic ft.

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Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

Sociedad Fraternal Cervantes.

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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...

Colón, Concha.

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Colón, Clara.

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Colón, Joaquiń.

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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...

Liga Puertorriqueña e Hispana.

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