Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950.

Baldwin, Roger N. (Roger Nash), 1884-1981

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Roger Nash Baldwin (January 21, 1884 – August 26, 1981) was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950. Many of the ACLU's original landmark cases took place under his direction, including the Scopes Trial, the Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial, and its challenge to the ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. Baldwin was a well-known pacifist and author. Baldwin was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the son of Lucy Cushing (...

Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968

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Upton Sinclair was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1878. Sinclair was an American author, novelist, journalist, and political activist who wrote many books in several genres. He is most well-known for his exposé, The Jungle regarding conditions in Chicago's meat packing plants, which influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906. Much of Sinclair's writing was related to the economic and social conditions of the early twentieth century. He was heavily in...

Brout, Morris.

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Rocker, Rudolf, 1873-1958

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Born in Mainz, 1873; confined to an orphanage in Mainz, 1883; transferred to a reformatory; bookbinder's apprentice; joined the Fachverein für Buchbinder and was inducted into the local German Social Democratic Party (SPD), 1890; became a member of the young left-wing oppositionists, the Jungen, and with them, was expelled from the SPD, 1891; joined the underground movement led by the German anarchist Johann Most; German police discovered that Rocker had been smuggling illegal pr...

Pettipiece, R. Parmater (Richard Parmater), 1875-1960

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Brout, R. (Robert)

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Rocker Publications Committee

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Capes, Ben.

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Mann, Heinrich, 1871-1950

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Heinrich Mann, one of the foremost German writers of the twentieth century, lived almost penniless and seemingly forgotten in Los Angeles for nearly a decade before his death in 1950. Heinrich Mann was the elder brother of Nobel Prize winning novelist Thomas Mann. Despite his name and literary stature, Heinrich Mann remained virtually unknown in this country. By contrast, in pre-Hitler Germany, Heinrich had been both respected by fellow writers and popular with readers, perhaps even more so than...

Capes, Ida.

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De Casseres, Benjamin, 1873-1945

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American author. From the description of Letter [manuscript]: New York, N.Y., Benjamin De Casseres to Erskine Caldwell, Mount Vernon, Maine, 1926 August 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844445 Author. From the description of Papers, 1904-1943. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456230 Benjamin De Casseres (1873-1945), a journalist and author, worked for various New York City newspapers writing columns and editorials. He also wrote poetr...

Nolan, Edward D.

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Utopian Society of America

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Young, J. E.

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Merchant who operated a general store at Ford, a village on the Norfolk and Western Railroad in northern Dinwiddie Co., Va. In the 1890s, he had been a partner in the general store of Vaiden & Young whose papers are also in this repository. From the description of Papers, 1901-1912. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 38754501 ...

Cook, Eugene F., d. 1915.

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Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942

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Thomas J. Mooney was born on December 8, 1882 in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Indiana and Massachusetts. A molder by trade, Mooney first came to California in 1908, permanently settling in San Francisco in 1910. There he became involved in the work of the Socialist party and various labor organizing activites. In 1916, Mooney and Warren K. Billings were wrongfully convicted of the Preparedness Day bombing of July 22. Mooney's plight became a cause amongst labor until his eventual release and ...

Olerich, Henry, 1851-1927

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Cook, Sadie (Berntsen), 1893-

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Bell, Bob.

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Pinchon, Edgcumb, 1883-

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Bell, T. H. (Thomas H.), 1867-1942

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Thomas Hastie Bell (1867-1942) was an American author and anarchist. His works include: Edward Carpenter, the English Tolstoi (1932), and Oscar Wilde without whitewash. His work on Wilde was never published in English but was published in Buenos Aires under the title Oscar Wilde: sus amigos, sus adversaries, sus ideas (1946). From the description of Papers of Thomas Hastie Bell, 1922-1942. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499689 ...

Deutelbaum, Julius.

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Schurlberg, Selig.

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Hopkins, Pryns, 1885-

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Taylor, George W.

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Johnson, Bertha F., 1880-

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Debs, Theodore, 1864-1945

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Rocker, Milly Witkop, 1877-1955.

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Conaway, Roscoe.

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Twentieth century fund

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Bell, Thomas H., Mrs.

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MacDonald, Pearl J.

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Mooney Molders Defense Committee

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Foster, William Z., 1881-1961

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Chairman, United States Communist Party. From the description of Papers, 1922-1961. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853708 ...

Truth Seeker.

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Brout, Ralph.

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Cook, Margaret G. (Margaret Gerry), 1903-

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McBride, Richard, 1870-1917

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Bell, T. H. (Thomas H.), 1867-1942

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Thomas Hastie Bell (1867-1942) was an American author and anarchist. His works include: Edward Carpenter, the English Tolstoi (1932), and Oscar Wilde without whitewash. His work on Wilde was never published in English but was published in Buenos Aires under the title Oscar Wilde: sus amigos, sus adversaries, sus ideas (1946). From the description of Papers of Thomas Hastie Bell, 1922-1942. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122499689 ...

Walker, Edwin C., 1849-1931

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Rodriguez, William E.

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Craig, Nell Terry.

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Boquet, Dominick.

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Lang, Lucy (Fox) Robins.

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Stoppel, Francis.

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Roman, Frederick W. (Frederick William), 1876-1948

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Epithet: Dr. writer on education British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x00002d ...

Budwalda, William.

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Ettor, Iva.

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Cook, Clyde Wilson.

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Sercombe, Parker H.

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Townsend, Francis E.

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WEBER, WALTER E.

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Durant, Will, 1885-1981

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Also contains correspondence from Ariel Durant, wife of Will Durant. From the description of Correspondence : with W.A. Swanberg, 1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155896493 American historian. From the description of Typewritten letter signed : Los Angeles, to Mrs. W.L. Graves, 1945 Apr. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270742337 ...

Weinberger, Harry, 1888-

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Harry Weinberger was born in New York City in 1888. He attended New York University and was admitted to the bar in 1908. A staunch believer in civil liberties, Weinberger defended many aliens, immigrants, anarchists, and other radicals, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, whom he believed had been deprived of their rights. He also developed an expertise in copyright law, representing many writers, including Eugene O'Neill. Weinberger died in 1944. From the description of Ha...

Jordan-Smith, Paul, 1885-1971

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Reitman, Ben L. (Ben Lewis), 1879-1942

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Hobo, physician and anarchist, Ben Reitman (1879-1942) was an advocate for the disadvantaged in Chicago and throughout the country. Reitman left school at age ten to become a hobo. He tramped around the U.S., panhandling and riding the rails until he returned to Chicago and took a job as a laboratory boy. In 1900, he was admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reitman started a private practice on Chicago's South Side in 1904. He continued to champion the causes of hobos and the unem...

Parsons, Lucy E. (Lucy Eldine), 1853-1942

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Epithet: wife of A R Parsons, the anarchist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001300.0x00004b ...

Gosden, Robert, 1882-1961

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Sprading, Charles T.

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Garcia, R. B.

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Anderson, Margaret C.

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Margaret Caroline Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on 24 November 1886 to a wealthy family. She dropped out of college after three years to work for Continent, a religious magazine in Chicago. In 1914 she started The Little review, a magazine forum for new ideas where Chicago writers and poets could publish their work. She left the U.S. to live in France in 1924 and died 19 October 1973 from emphysema. From the description of Margaret C. Anderson correspondence with Ben an...

Cook, Cassius V., 1879-1950

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Anarchist, writer, and publisher. From the description of Papers, 1908-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364143 From the description of Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 66895332 ...

Brout, Bess.

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Commins, Saxe -1958

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Patterson, W. D.

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Bobsieu, O.

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Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

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Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist, feminist, author, editor, and lecturer on politics, literature and the arts. She was born in Lithuania and died in Canada. Her lectures and publications attracted attention throughout the U.S. and Europe. She was associated with the anarchist journal Mother Earth from 1906 to 1917 and was imprisoned for publicly advocating birth control in 1916 and pacifism in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia but had to leave because of her criticism of the Bols...

Carney, Jack, 1929-

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