Progressive Party papers, 1948-1953.

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Progressive Party papers, 1948-1953.

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The first series contains material created by Helen MacMartin and correspondence sent to her. The correspondence concerns meetings and brief references to the unending daily work she and other committed persons were doing for the Progressive Party in Vermont. Often she seems frustrated by a lack of committed co-workers. Letters contain names of people who worked for the party and demonstrate the locations in the state in which the party was active. The second series contains records related to the operation of the Vermont Progressive Party and to national meetings, including platform materials from the 1952 convention. The link between Vermont's fledgling party and the National Party is well documented here. A petition against the Korean War to Vermont Senators Flanders and Aiken contains over fifty signatures collected from Vermonters in Randolph, White River, Bethel, and Norwich, Vermont. The third series includes printed materials received and kept by Mrs. MacMartin. It includes a wide variety of newsletters, including In Fact, A Daily Antidote For Falsehood of the Press and publications by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship. There are flyers as well for various causes such as the treatment of Black singer Paul Robeson, the Korean War, banning the atomic bomb, and other peace issues. Other issues represented in the collection include the presidential campaign of Henry Wallace in 1948, assistance to those citizens attacked by the House Un-American Activities Committee, and world peace.

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