Morris and Eleanor Stamm papers, series II, 1937-1990.

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Morris and Eleanor Stamm papers, series II, 1937-1990.

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Primarily correspondence between Morris Stamm and other members of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives. Included are letters relating to the Committee for Black Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and the archives of the American Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, as well as issues of Volunteer for Liberty, organ of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and The Volunteer, organ of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Biographical material and newsclippings pertaining to the Stamms are also included, together with newsletters of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and correspondence with film makers re: film projects about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and radicals in the early labor movements. The collection is a good source of information on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War, and also reflects the ongoing involvement of the Stamms in civil rights and socialist activities.

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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Western Reserve Historical Society, Research Library

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