[Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder : correspondence and pamphlet]. 1942.

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[Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder : correspondence and pamphlet]. 1942.

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Contains a pamphlet by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and two letters from the Professional and Cultural Division of the Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder concerning the letter-writing campaign for Browder's release.

3 items : ill. ; 24-28 cm.

HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library

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HCL Technical Services, Harvard College Library

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Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder (N.Y.)

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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...

Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley, 1890-1964

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and a Communist Party (CP) official. Flynn was an organizer in major strikes in Lawrence, Massachusetts and Paterson and Passaic, New Jersey. She saw labor court trials as important extensions of organizing, and participated in trials in Missoula, Montana (1908), and Spokane, Washington (1909-1910). As part of her defense work she created the Workers’ Defense League, an organization to fight for th...