General information by and about the Harvard Committee to Free Browder, 1942.
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Harvard University
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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...
Citizens's Committee to Free Earl Browder. Harvard Chapter.
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Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party, was imprisoned in 1940 for a passport violation. A Harvard chapter of the Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder sponsored a talk by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn in March 1942. From the description of General information by and about the Harvard Committee to Free Browder, 1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 270753549 ...
Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1890-1964
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a Communist Party (CP) official. Flynn was an organizer in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey. She saw labor court trials as important extensions of organizing, and participated in trials in Missoula, Montana (1908), and Spokane, Washington (1909-1910). As part of her defense work she created the Workers’ Defense League, an organization to fight for th...
Browder, Earl, 1891-1973
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Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was General Secretary of the Communist party of the United States during the height of its popularity, in the 1930s and 1940s and twice represented the Party as its candidate for President. Earl Browder was born on May 20, 1891, in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of William Browder and Martha Jane Hankins Browder. His father was a teacher and farmer who was avidly Populist. Earl Browder had little formal education and went to work to help support the family. At t...
