Frank J. Donner papers, 1897-1992 (inclusive).

Communist Party of the United States of America

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The Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Soviet Union, was founded in 1919 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution by the left wing members of the Socialist Party USA. These split into two groups, with each holding founding conventions in Chicago in September 1919: one which established the Communist Labor Party, and a second which established the Communist Party of America. In a 1920 Joint Unity Convention, a minority faction of t...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities (1934-1975)

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From 1934 to 1937 The U.S. House Committee on Un-American Activities began as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities and was also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee. The Dies Committee, was created on May 26, 1938, with the approval of House Resolution 282, which authorized the Speaker of the House to appoint a special committee of seven members to investigate un-American activities in the United States, domestic diffusion of propaganda, and all other questions relating thereto...

Lemmer, William.

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Bentley, Elizabeth Bradley

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Kornfeder, Joseph Zack

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Socialist Workers' Party (Great Britain)

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Members and supporters of the Socialist Workers Party have worked with the farm movement and have covered farm protests for the Party's newspaper, The militant, since the 1970s. The items in this collection were collected by various members who were active with the farm movement. From the description of Farm protests collection, 1954-1990, n.d. (Iowa State University). WorldCat record id: 221317319 American socialist political party. From the description of Socia...

Mosher, Thomas Edward, 1942-

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Cvetic, Matthew

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Matusow, Harvey, 1926-

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Harvey Marshall Matusow (1926-2002) was born in the Bronx, New York, where his father owned a cigar store. He dropped out of high school, to serve in the US Army in Europe during the Second World War. Joining the Communist Party in 1946, for several years he was an active member in New York. During 1950, until his expulsion from the party, he supplied information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the party's activities. Early in 1951 he volunteered to give evidence for th...

Jewish Defense League

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Mazzei, Joseph

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Douglas, Boyd Frederick.

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Donner, Frank J.

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Frank J. Donner was a lawyer, journalist, historian, and civil libertarian who was best known for his research and writings on government surveillance and the use of informers. Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, he received his undergraduate education and a master's degree in history (1934) from the University of Wisconsin. He obtained a law degree from Columbia University in 1937. Donner began his legal career as a staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board (1940-1943) and went on to serve as...

Vietnam veterans against the war

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The founders were former servicemen and servicewomen who served in Vietnam and who opposed the United States government's policy during the Vietnamese Conflict, sometimes in the face of public apathy, indifference and even hostility and harassment. They testified in the 1971 Winter Soldier Investigation as to the extent of atrocities against Viet Cong prisoners, civilians, and illegal border incursions into noncombatant countries. From the description of Collection, 1967-[ongoing]. (...

Grathwohl, Larry

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Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (U.S.)

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Legal Services Corporation

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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, ...

Johnson, Manning, 1907-

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Tongyai, Thomas.

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Movement Support Network (Center for Constitutional Rights)

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Philbrick, Herbert A. (Herbert Arthur), 1915-1993

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Anticommunist activist and counterspy. From the description of Herbert A. Philbrick papers, 1849-1997 (bulk 1940-1993). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984223 Biographical Note 1915, May 11 Born, Boston, Mass. 1938 Graduated, Lincoln Technical Institute of Northeastern University, Boston, Mass. ...

Campaign for Political Rights (U.S.)

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United States. Attorney General's Commission on Pornography

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American Civil Liberties Union. Project on Political Surveillance.

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Lautner, John, 1911-1994

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Honig, Nathaniel.

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Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972

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Communist and political activist; editor of The Daily Worker. From the description of Papers, 1953-1967. (Providence College, Phillips Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 70925266 Until 1945, Louis F. Budenz was a labor activist and prime supporter of the United States communist party. Returning to his early roots in Catholicism, he renounced the party and positioned himself as a strong anti-communist advocate. His role as a witness for the gover...

Seattle Liberation Front.

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Scott, Cecil

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American Indian Movement

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The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian advocacy group in the United States, founded in July 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota....

Cummings, William

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American Civil Liberties Union

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Founded in 1920 in New York City by Roger Baldwin and others; the ACLU was an outgrowth of the American Union Against Militarism's National Civil Liberties Bureau, which in 1920 changed its name to the American Civil Liberties Union. From the description of Collection, 1917- (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 42740878 The Southern Women's Rights Project (SWRP) located in Richmond is affiliated with the American Civil Liberties Union. The project deal...

Crouch, Paul, 1903-1955

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American communist leader; later anti-communist. From the description of Paul Crouch papers, 1925-1958. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754869843 ...

Burton, Joseph A.

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