Ben Fletcher collection, 1921-1922.

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Ben Fletcher collection, 1921-1922.

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Correspondence, memoranda, legal briefs, and petitions, relating to individual and group efforts to secure a presidential pardon for Ben Fletcher, a black unionist and member of Industrial Workers of the World, arrested and convicted by the federal government for interfering with the war effort in 1917.

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Wayne State University

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Herbert H. Lehman College

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Seraile, William, 1941-

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Professor of African American studies, Herbert H. Lehman College, New York, N.Y. From the description of Ben Fletcher collection, 1921-1922. (Wayne State University). WorldCat record id: 28417233 William Seraile was a professor of history with the Department of Black Studies at Herbert H. Lehman College, CUNY. He is the author of several books including: "Bruce Grit: The Black Nationalist Writings of John Edward Bruce" (2003), "New York's Black Regiment During t...

Fletcher, Ben, 1890-1949

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