Records, 1920-1970.

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Records, 1920-1970.

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Correspondence, minutes, membership lists, financial reports, and other materials, relating to the administration of the organization and its liquidation. Includes case files concerning low interest loans granted by the organization to help striking workers and other workers needing money to pay for initiation fees and apprenticeship programs; and information on National Sharecroppers Fund, International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades (earlier name: Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America), and Joint Apprenticeship Program, which helped to place blacks in the trade industries. Correspondents include Roger Baldwin, John N. Beffel, Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Walter Frank, Adelaide Schulkind Frank, Nathan Marer, Harry Rappaport, Frank Schonfeld, and Roland Watts.

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Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades

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League for Mutual Aid (U.S.)

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Founded in 1920; liquidated in 1972. From the description of Records, 1920-1970. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28414588 ...

Frank, Adelaide Schulkind

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Adelaide Schulkind Frank was the Executive Secretary of the League for Mutual Aid for over thirty years. The League, founded in 1920, has helped individuals in the liberal and labor movements with loans and/or guidance, defraying the cost through annual memberships and other contributions. From the guide to the Papers, 1925-1972, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Frank was the Executive Secretary of the League for Mutual Aid for more than thirty years. The League, f...

Marer, Nathan

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Beffel, John Nicholas

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Journalist. From the description of John Nicholas Beffel papers, 1927-1949. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68796293 From the description of Papers, 1927-1949. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34366789 John Nicholas Beffel (1887 1973) Radical journalist, publicist, and editor. A prolific writer of articles, essays, and publicity dealing with leftist issues, many pertaining to the syndicalist labor organization the Industrial Workers of the...

Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators, and Paperhangers of America

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Watts, Roland

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Joint Apprentice Program (U.S.)

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Bromley, Dorothy Dunbar, 1896-1986

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Dorothy Dunbar Bromley (1897-1986), journalist and writer, was also known as Dorothy Dunbar Walker and used the pen name Stephen Ewing. She was born on a farm near Ottawa, Illinois, daughter of Helen Ewing Dunbar and Charles E. Dunbar, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1918. During her college years she served as a member of the Signal Corps. She moved to New York City, where she became a journalist; she did publicity and editorial work for Henry Holt and Company (1921-1...

Schonfeld, Frank

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Frank Schonfeld (1916- ) was a member, rank and file activist, and officer of the Painters District Council 9 (New York City) and his home Local 1011 (now merged in Local 19). He was secretary-treasurer of the District Council from 1967 to 1973. Throughout his long union career he struggled against corrupt labor practices, the administration of long-time DC 9 leader Martin Rarback, and for union democracy. From the description of Papers, 1909-1992 (bulk 1940s-1970s). (New York Univer...

National Sharecroppers' Fund (U.S.)

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The Southern Rural Training Project was sponsored by the Southern Sharecroppers' Fund and funded through the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity. The project was designed to assist in the development of community action, education, and job-training programs in the rural areas of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. From the description of Southern Rural Training Project records, 1967-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476694 ...

Frank, Walter Malte, 1893-

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Rappaport, Harry H.

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