Reminiscences of Ernest Rice McKinney : oral history, 1961.

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Reminiscences of Ernest Rice McKinney : oral history, 1961.

Development of the National Unemployed League, Depression days; organizing steel workers for Congress of Industrial Organizations, and as a member of the Workers' Socialist Party; upgrading Negroes in industry; Working Men's Welfare Committees; Workers Party of the United States (Trotskyist Group) and its relationship to Communist and Socialist Parties; resignation from Workers Party.

Transcript: 116 leaves.Tape: 1 reel.

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