Records, 1900-1976.

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Records, 1900-1976.

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Papers containing files of the party's national office, 1896-1976, including correspondence of the national secretaries, supplemented by the correspondence, 1900-1910, of Carl Thompson, head of the information department; minutes; resolutions; speeches; articles; press releases; memoranda; files on socialist publications; reports of organizers; reports of state secretaries; correspondence with foreign societies; and papers of the national committee, the national action committee, and the national executive committee. Papers concern the organization of the party, World War I, party politics, finances, the party's attitudes toward women and blacks, national elections, relations with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, development of labor colleges, including Brookwood Labor College, Katonah, N.Y., the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, World War II, civil rights, international socialism, relations with labor unions, the union with the Social Democratic Federation, 1957, opposition to American involvement in Viet Nam, and the Young People's Socialist League and other youth groups.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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