Records, 1983-1996.

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Records, 1983-1996.

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Records, 1983-1996, of a committee formed to support the legal defense of Mark Curtis, an activist in the Socialist Workers Party in Des Moines, Iowa, who was involved in labor/political strife in the packinghouse industry and who was arrested and jailed on false charges to remove him from influence. The collection consists of the organizational records of the Committee as well as legal documentation of Curtis' defense.

4.0 c.f.,43 photographs, and3 videorecordings.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926388

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Curtis, Mark

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Mark Curtis Defense Committee.

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...