Reminiscences of Norman Mattoon Thomas : oral history, 1965.

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Reminiscences of Norman Mattoon Thomas : oral history, 1965.

Impressions of United States Presidents, 1912-65; activities in support of socialist and labor organizations; newspaper career; early political campaigns; work for civil liberties: freedom of speech in Jersey City, sharecropper protection, defense of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

Transcript: 152 leaves.

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Thomas Norman Mattoon, 1884-1968

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Norman Mattoon Thomas (1884-1968), was a leading American socialist, pacifist, author, and six-time presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket, between 1928 and 1948. Born in Marion, Ohio, he was a graduate of Princeton University, attended Union Theological Seminary, where he became a socialist, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1911. Thomas opposed the United States' entry into the First World War, a position that earned him the disapproval of many in his soci...

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