Reformers and radicals.

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

United States. Dept. of Labor. Women's Bureau

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The United States Women's Bureau (WB) is an agency of the United States government within the United States Department of Labor. The Women's Bureau works to create parity for women in the labor force by conducting research and policy analysis, to inform and promote policy change, and to increase public awareness and education. The Director is appointed by the President. Prior to the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011, the position required confirmation by advice ...

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Organizational History and List of Officers Organizational History 1909 Issued the “Call,” a statement calling for a conference to protest discrimination and violence against African Americans Convened the National Negro Conference on May 31 and June 1, New York, N.Y. E...

Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980

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Helen Gahagan Douglas (November 25, 1900 – June 28, 1980) was an American actress and politician. Her career included success on Broadway, as a touring opera singer, and the starring role in the 1935 movie She, in which her portrayal of the villain inspired Disney's Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Born Helen Mary Gahagan in Boonton, New Jersey and raised in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York, she graduated from the prestigious Berkeley School for Girls and at the ...

National Council of Negro Women

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The National Council of Negro Women (NANW) was founded December 5, 1935 by Mary McLeod Bethune. It grew out of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW). Bethune was an educator and the daughter of former slaves. She branched off the ideas of the NACW and began the start of the NCNW to help African American women and their families. Women on the council fought more towards political and economic successes of black women to uplift them in society. NCNW fulfills this mission through researc...

First Congregational Church (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006

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Healey was born Dorothy Rosenblum in 1914 in Denver, CO; her mother was a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States; her parents moved to CA in 1921, and Dorothy grew up in Oakland; joined Young Communist League in 1928, and was arrested during the May Day unemployment demonstrations there in 1930; left high school in 1931 to work in a cannery in San Jose; joined the Communist Party when she turned 18; became organizer of migrant farm workers, and in 1940 was appointed a deputy...

Industrial League for Democracy.

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Robertson, Anne S.

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California Democratic Council

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The California Democratic Council (CDC), a federation of local volunteer clubs, was established in 1953; under the direction of founding president Alan Cranston, the CDC was able to balance its electoral and legislative goals; CDC endorsements and campaign support led to the first full statewide slate of Democrats in 40 years (1954) and also figured prominently in the election of Edmund G. "Pat" Brown as CA governor in 1958; as the CDC's focus became increasingly ideological, tensions led to a s...

O'Hare, Kathleen.

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Millikan, Gertrude.

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Holloway, Mary.

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Salvation Army

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Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Salvation Army</a>. From the guide to the Salvation Army Combined Corps Roll and Ledger, 1926-1980, 1928-1969, (Special Collections Research Center) ...

Young Communist League of the U.S.A.

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Letwin, Bessie.

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Keyser, Dora Stoller.

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Bertolini, Ethel Shapiro.

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Communist Labor Party of America

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Tax, Meredith

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Meredith Tax was born in Wisconsin on September 18, 1942. She was educated in the Milwaukee public school system and at Brandeis University, where she graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright fellowships. She then studied at the University of London where she became involved in the anti-war movement. Returning to the U.S. in 1968, she continued her anti-war activism and was one of the founding members of Boston's Bread and Roses collective, a s...

Todes, Charlotte, 1897-1996

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Fischer, Jan

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Browder, Earl, 1891-1973

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Earl Russell Browder (1891-1973) was General Secretary of the Communist party of the United States during the height of its popularity, in the 1930s and 1940s and twice represented the Party as its candidate for President. Earl Browder was born on May 20, 1891, in Wichita, Kansas. He was the son of William Browder and Martha Jane Hankins Browder. His father was a teacher and farmer who was avidly Populist. Earl Browder had little formal education and went to work to help support the family. At t...

Gibson, Nellie.

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Connelly, Philip

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Communist party of America

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McDonald, Grace

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Erickson, Ethel

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Pack, Della.

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Nestor, Barbara.

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Baxandall, Rosalyn Fraad, 1939-2015

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Rosalyn Fraad "Ros" Baxandall was an American historian of women's activism and an active New York City feminist....

Healey, Richard

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American League Against War and Fascism

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O'Hare, Kate Richards, 1877-1948

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Kate Richards O'Hare was born on Mar. 26, 1876 to Andrew and Lucy Richards, Kansas farmers devastated by the depression of the 1870s. In 1895, Kate was introduced to socialism by Eugene Debs, and later met Mother Jones and other socialists in Kansas City, where she lived. Kate joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1899, which she left in 1901 to help found the Socialist Party of America. She married fellow socialist Frank P. O'Hare in 1902. A socialist leader, she spoke across America against WWI ...

Bright, Sue

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Industrial Workers of the World

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The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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The FBI established this classification when it assumed responsibility for ascertaining the protection capabilities and weaknesses of defense plants. Each plant survey was a separate case file, with the survey, supplemental surveys, and all communications dealing with a plant insofar as plant protection was concerned, filed together. On June 1, 1941, and January 5, 1942, the Navy and Army, respectively, assumed responsibility for surveying defense plants in which they had interests. Thereafter, ...

Emery, Louise.

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Pidgeon, Mary Elizabeth

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Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon, 1890-1979; Quaker, suffragette, educator, political activist, and research economist. From the description of Oral history interview of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1976 November 12, 1977 March 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647913110 From the description of Papers of Mary Elizabeth Pidgeon [manuscript], 1926-1927. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647913079 From the description of Oral history interview...

Remley, Zita Donegan.

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Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Gluck, Sherna Berger

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Land, Yetta.

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Ebell Club.

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Voorhees, Jerry.

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Democratic Party.

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Hutchinson, Mildred.

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Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A.

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Records of the YWCA's programs and activities among blacks began in 1907. From the description of Records, 1920. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007201 The YWCA of the Mid-Peninsula opened in 1948 as a recreation center for business women. It expanded to provide recreational and social services for women that met the organization's mission of "empowering women and eliminating racism." The organization was based in Palo Alto until its closing in 2003. ...

Ferrer Colony (Stelton, N.J.)

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Kushner, Florence.

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United Methodist Church (U.S.)

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Although this collection contains records primarily from the N.C. and Western N.C. Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), and national records from both the MECS and the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), this chronology is provided as an aid to understanding the context of the records contained in this collection. 1772 First Methodist preaching in North Carolina at Currituck Court House in northea...