Papers, 1921-1996 (bulk 1943-1994).

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Papers, 1921-1996 (bulk 1943-1994).

The brief Biographical series includes clippings, memorabilia, and other personal materials. The Correspondence series includes: Paul Avrich, Giovanni Baldelli, George Benello, Clif Bennett, Murray Bookchin, Holley Cantine, Dave Dellinger, Eliot Deutsch, Daniel DeWees, Audrey Goodfriend, David Koven, Laurance Labadie, Ian and Meda Lind, Jackson Mac Low, Lowell Naeve, Ruth Perry, Dachine Rainer, Taylor Stoehr, Ralph Stone, Vera and Paul Williams. There are also some prison letters (see Related Materials, below). The Diaries and Journals cover the years 1932-1993. Series IV, Writings, contains manuscripts, typescripts and notes, principally for unpublished works by Wieck and others. There are numerous philosophical writings, and an unpublished typescript by Wieck: The United Mineworkers of America: A Study in Centralization.

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Labadie, Laurance, 1896-1975

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Anarchist writer and theorist, son of Joseph Labadie. From the description of Laurance Labadie papers, 1882-1973. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68796380 From the description of Papers, 1882-1973. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369109 ...

Avrich, Paul

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Avrich was a professor of history at Queens College in 1980. He is the author of books about anarchists and the Russian Revolution. From the description of Essay, 1980. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007502 ...

Wieck, David Thoreau, 1921-

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David Wieck was born in Illinois, attended Columbia University, and was a member of the American Student Union, and the Young Communist League (1935), which he resigned from due to his objection to undemocratic functions of the group. He was imprisoned after failing to obtain conscientious objector status from his draft board. Wieck participated in hunger strikes and the "Jim Crow" Strike of 1943, protesting unequal treatment of African-American conscientious objectors. He later protested the Ko...

Lind, Meda.

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DeWees, Daniel.

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Mac Low, Jackson

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A performance artist and the author of more than two dozen books of experimental verse, Mac Low was born in Chicago in 1922 and educated at the University of Chicago (1939-1943) and Brooklyn College (1955-1958). He has worked as a music teacher, an English teacher, a translator, and an editor. From the description of Papers, 1923-1995. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32539702 BIOGRAPHY Born in ...

Koven, David.

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Born in Brownsville, Brooklyn, USA 1918; railroad worker, sailor and electrician; painter and photographer; in his youth a member of the Young Communist League; broke with communism and became a pacifist in 1936; turned to anarchism during the Spanish Civil War, when he got involved with the anarchist Vanguard Group; with Audrey Goodfriend one of the founders of Why? (1942-1947), continued as Resistance (1947-1954); moved to San Francisco in the late 1940s, where he became active in Kenneth Rexr...

Dellinger, David T., 1915-2004

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Cantine, Holley R.

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Perry, Ruth, 1943-....

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Civil rights activist, librarian. Secretary (1950-1956) and vice president (1957-1963) of the Miami branch of the NAACP; wrote a weekly column, "Along freedom's road," for the Miami Herald newspaper; testified before the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee (the Johns Committee). From the description of Ruth Perry papers, 1951-1968. (University of South Florida). WorldCat record id: 50658003 ...

Stone, Ralph W. (Ralph Walter), 1876-1964

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Benello, C. George

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Williams, Vera B

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Vera Williams was born on January 28, 1927 in Hollywood, California. She earned her B.A. from Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina, in 1949. She has been a writer of children's books since 1975. She has also been an educator and teacher, including co-founding the Collaberg School in Stony Point, New York, an alternative school for children. Her books have been awarded the Caldecott Honor Book, Notable Book by the American Library Association and the Best Illustrated Book of the...

Naeve, Lowell

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Stoehr, Taylor, 1931-....

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Baldelli, Giovanni

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Rainer, Dachine

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Dachine Rainer: b. January 13, 1921, d. August 19, 2000. British writer and anarchist. From the description of Dachine Rainer interview, 1997. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 81302978 ...

Lind, Ian Y.

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Deutsch, Eliot.

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Bookchin, Murray, 1921-2006

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Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was an American anarchist and social ecologist. Formerly a Communist and Trotskyist, he later became an anarchist and a founder of the social ecology movement, which seeks to combine insights from anarchism (and from the Marxian Left) with ecological concerns. From the guide to the Bookchin, Murray. Free Cities: Communalism and the Left / Edited by Eirik Eiglad., 2008, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 July 30,...

Williams, Paul

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Bennett, Clifford T.

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Goodfriend, Audrey.

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