Manny Harriman video oral history collection, 1985-1987.

Brown, Archie, 1911-1990.

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Archie Brown (1911-1990), San Francisco waterfront unionist, Communist Party organizer, and active member of the Bay Area Post of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain and participated in the Battle of the Bulge during WWII. He served on the Executive Board of the International Longshoremens and Warehousemens Union, Local 10, was prosecuted under the Landrum-Griffin Act barring Communists from serving as elected union officials, and won a S...

Roberts, Hilda Bell.

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Hilda Bell Roberts was born Hilda Bell in Philadelphia in 1915, graduating from the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing in 1937. She went to Spain in May of 1937 as a volunteer nurse with the Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy, sailing on the S.S. Normandie. In Spain she worked as a staff nurse in the operating room at the Universidad Hospital and the Cruz Roja Hospital in Murcia before transferring to the Aragon front. There she traveled with the autochir, a mobile hospital that set up surgi...

Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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Grell, LaVerne.

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Nelson, Steve, 1903-1993

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Steve Nelson was born Stjepan Mesaroš in Croatia, and emigrated to the United States with his family after World War I. He was a labor activist and organizer, Communist Party official, Political Commissar in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and National Commander of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (VALB). During his time in Spain he took part in the Brunete offensive, as well as the battles of Quinto and Belchite. He was wounded at Belchite, and then was recalled to the United States by...

Rappaport, Irving

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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Bay Area Post

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Shafran, Jack.

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Jacob Joseph (Jack) Shafran (1917- ) fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. A Communist and organizer for the Department Store Employees Union, Local 1250. he volunteered for the International Brigades with ten other members of Local 1250, including Harry Fisher, Gerald (Jerry) Cook, and Norman Berkowitz. On his arrival he trained as a new recruit with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion before transferring to the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. He served in Spain from July 1937 until October...

Love, Vaughn.

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Prago, Albert

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Albert Prago (1911-1993) was a scholar of Latin American history and Marxist economics, a college teacher and a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. After being wounded in Spain, he returned to the United States in 1938, and pursued a career in teaching and research. He published several books and articles on labor history, Latin-American history and the Spanish Civil War, earned a Ph.D. in history in 1976, and co-edited the 1987 anthology Our Fight with fellow Lincoln Brigade ve...

Dallet, Joe, 1907-1937

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Joseph Dallet, Jr., born into an affluent family on Long Island, became a labor organizer and Communist Party activist. He volunteered with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War, and served in Spain as Commissar in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, a unit made up of both American and Canadian volunteers. He was killed in action in October 1937. Dallet was married twice, first to Barbara Rand, then to Katherine (Kitty) Puening, who subsequently married J. Robert Oppenheimer. Most o...

Landis, Arthur H., 1917-1986

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Arthur H. Landis was born into a family of vaudeville performers in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1917, and spent most of his youth in Redondo Beach, California. Landis joined the 15th International Brigade in 1937 and fought with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion. He worked as a scout, a typographer, and an artillery spotter with the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, and fought in the battles of Aragon and Teruel, where he was injured. Landis also worked for a stint for an intelligence unit, and participa...

Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

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VALB was formed in December 1937 by U.S. volunteers returning from combat in the Spanish Civil War. VALB originally assisted wounded veterans and sought to awaken the U.S. public to the significance of the Spanish Civil War and the Loyalist cause. In later years, VALB began to address other political issues, including U.S. policy in World War II and later, Cuba, Nicaragua and Vietnam. In addition to their headquarters in New York City, VALB "Posts" developed in various cities including Los Angel...

Merriman, Marion, 1909-

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Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Historical Commission

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Fasanella, Ralph

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Ralph Fasanella, born September 7, 1914, was a self-taught painter whose large, detailed works depict urban working life. The child of Italian immigrants, Fasanella was born and raised in the Bronx and later became a member of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) Local 1227 while working as a machinist in Brooklyn. Fasanella also fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and after returning from the war began to work as a union organizer for the UE....

Bessie, Alvah Cecil, 1904-1985

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Alvah Bessie (1904-1985) was an author and screenwriter who fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, and was later blacklisted as one of the "Hollywood Ten" cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on the influence of the Communist Party in the motion-picture industry. From the description of Papers, 1937-1991 (bulk 1936-1939, 1967-1985). (New York University). WorldCat record id: 476413154 ...

Goff, Irving, 1911-1989

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Irving Goff (1911 - 17 May 1989) was a member of the Communist Party USA and the Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a unit that volunteered to fight during the Spanish Civil War for the Popular Front. During World War II, he was a member of the American Office of Strategic Services, and was instrumental in setting up guerrilla units working behind enemy lines in North Africa and Italy. His exploits as a guerrilla in Spain are considered to be the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bel...

Bailey, Bill

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Longshoremen activist. From the description of Bill Bailey oral history transcripts and related papers, [ca. 1970-1978]. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 233004149 ...

Steck, Robert

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Robert Steck was born in 1912 in Rock Island, Illinois. One of five brothers, he inherited a keen awareness of society's injustices from his father, a fruit and vegetable wholesaler and member of the Freethinking Society, leading Steck to a lifelong commitment to public service and political activism. While attending St. Ambrose College in Iowa, Steck discovered the theater and, after a stint as a truck driver for his father's business, landed in New York City, where he worked on the staff of Ne...

Duncan, Faiga.

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Harriman, Manny.

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Manny Harriman (1919-1997), born Samuel Nahman, was a veteran of both the Spanish Civil War and World War II who later pursued careers in tool and die making and publishing. During the McCarthy period he changed his name in an attempt to avoid harassment. He and a fellow Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran, Arthur H. Landis, ran a small publishing firm, the Camelot Publishing Company. Following his first return trip to Spain in 1977, Harriman became interested in the history of his fellow Spanish Ci...

Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy

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Merriman, Robert Hale

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Robert Hale Merriman (1908-1938) was a graduate student in economics at the University of California at Berkeley when he became interested in Russian economics. He had met his future wife Marion Stone when both were undergraduates at the University of Nevada; they married on their graduation day, May 9, 1932. The Merrimans moved to Moscow in January 1935. An excursion to Vienna gave Robert and Marion a firsthand view of Nazism and motivated Robert, who had received some basic milita...

Smorodin, Abe.

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Simon, Mildred Rackley, 1906-1992.

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Mildred Rackley Simon (1906-1992) was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico into a ranching family. After attending for one year at the University of Texas in Austin, Rackley received a teaching degree from the Las Vegas Normal School. In 1927, Rackley moved to Taos where she taught high school. She also began painting and drawing with the encouragement of Walter Ufer, prominent German painter and member of the Taos Society of Artists. Rackley became involved in the artists' colony, and the ...

Watt, George, 1913-1994

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From an early age, George Watt (b. 1913) was involved in Communist activities, serving as executive secretary of the Communist National Student League. From 1937-1939, he was a political commissar in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. Watt later served as a sergeant in the Army Air Force during World War II. After the war, Watt became an official of the American Communist Party. He was one of a group of party officers convicted of sedition in 1953 ...

Aalto, William.

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MacLeod, Xavier Donald, 1821-1865

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Cornelius Xavier Donald MacLeod was born in New York city on November 17, 1821, the son of Rev. Alexander McLeod (1774-1833), a Presbyterian clergyman, and Mary Ann Agnew (1778-1841). His father, Alexander MacLeod, immigrated from Scotland in 1792. Donald was one of eleven children, only four of whom survived into adulthood. Much to the regret of his family, he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1845, and was given charge of a parish in the country. MacLeod served as chaplain t...

Postek, Stanley, 1912-1991.

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Stanley Postek was born Ladislaus J. Szeliga on February 5, 1912, in Lowell, Massachusetts. Mr. Postek was a visible unionist throughout his life. He left school in the mid-thirties and went to the sea. He was a union organizer for the International Seamen's Union of America at the age of twenty-five, and as the rank and file broke away to form the National Maritime Union, so did he. Shortly thereafter, he volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade serving in Spain. In World War Tw...

Burns, Paul, 1906?-1996.

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Colodny, Robert Garland

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Robert Colodny (1915-1997) fought with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He returned to the U.S. in 1938 with a severe head injury. After his recovery Colodny served in the U.S. Army in Alaska during World War II. Colodny received his Ph.D. in history and philosophy in 1950 and joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1959. In 1961, a Pennsylvania State representative accused Colodny of being a Communist sympathizer, jeopardizing his faculty position at the Unive...