Reminiscences of Ben Davidson : oral history, 1978.

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Reminiscences of Ben Davidson : oral history, 1978.

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Childhood in Pittsburgh; education, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Columbia, 1921; early involvement with labor unions, 1920s-1930s; New Yok City public school teaching career; Director, Worker's School, 1925-29; political movements, 1920s-1940s; Director, American Labor Party, 1943-44; Executive Director, Liberal Party of New York State, 1944-77: founding convention, organizational development, fund raising, relationship of Democratic, Conservative and Liberal Parties in New York City and state; legal actions against Liberal Party; detailed chronological account of city, state, and national campaigns 1944-77. Impressions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, Herbert H. Lehman, Rudolph Halley, Alex Rose, John Lindsay, many others.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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