Robert Reed : northwest volunteers research project records, 1930s and 1975-1995.

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Reed, Robert, 1914-. Robert Reed : northwest volunteers research project records, 1930s and 1975-1995.

Robert Reed : northwest volunteers research project records, 1930s and 1975-1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475324691

Series 1: Background and Biographical Files, consists of the materials obtained by Reed in the process of his research. They range from news clippings, interviews, and photographic reproductions, to the reminiscences of family members and colleagues of particular ALBA veterans (often other Northwest volunteers). Following the introductory material describing the organization of the collection, and the lists of all the known Northwest volunteers by category (described by Reed as the notebook), there are more detailed folders on 54 individual veterans. In addition to Reed and Halonen, noteworthy volunteers included here are the African-American poet Ramon Durem, Evelyn Hutchins (the sole female of this group), and the Chicago activist Milt Cohen. The collection concludes with a file of more general material from the 1930s and later, in which specific Northwest volunteers are mentioned. The materials cover a wide historical period, chronicling not just wartime activities, but the prior and subsequent lives of many volunteers. Many were involved in the Communist Party and/or other progressive organizations and trade unions, so a major recurring theme is the impact of McCarthyism and other anti-left campaigns on their subsequent careers. The involvement of many in later progressive causes (such as Reeds effort to obtain ambulances for the Sandinista government in Nicaragua) is also described. Reed divided up his subjects by 3 categories: 1st, volunteers who went to Spain from the Northwest, 2nd, those who lived in the Northwest at some other point in their lives, and finally, a maybe list of people whose possible association to the Northwest region was unclear. In the introductory and category folders, particular volunteers appear alphabetically under each rubric. The 54 more detailed biographical folders are in alphabetical order across the first two categories. Finally, the researcher should be aware of occasional discrepancies in names, spellings and birth dates of particular Northwest volunteers; in all such cases, he or she should refer to the third item in the introductory folder of Box 1, which represents Reeds final corrections of all such cases in which such discrepancies occur.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes).

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