Helen Kruth Leiviska interview, 1973 June 26.

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Helen Kruth Leiviska interview, 1973 June 26.

Topics include her work writing for working class newspapers; the cooperative movement; Finnish Americans; ideals of the Työmies Society; conditions in the Soviet Union; labor organizing; the Communist Party; and the Ku Klux Klan.

Transcript : 17 p.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6921208

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Leiviska, Helen Kruth, 1907-1989

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Finnish American newspaper editor; married 1st: Mito Kruth (1899-1964), Communist Party organizer and member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; married 2nd: George Leiviska (1911-1981), also a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. From the description of Helen Kruth Leiviska interview, 1973 June 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173298732 ...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

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The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

Puotinen, Arthur Edwin

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