A Collection of material about the Communist Party in the United States and Southern California, 1952-1971.

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A Collection of material about the Communist Party in the United States and Southern California, 1952-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38942494

Collection consists of notes, documents, publications, and ephemera of the Communist Party of the United States and its Southern California district, the Southern California and national W.E.B. Du Bois clubs, and the new politics movement of the late 1960s. Also includes materials from the Communist Party of Mexico, 2nd Congress (1967), the new politics convention in Chicago (1967), and 6 posters and 4 drawings.

4 boxes (2 linear ft.)1 oversize box.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409260

University of California, Los Angeles

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