Victor Jeremy Jerome papers, 1923-1967 (inclusive).

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

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...

American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born

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The American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (1933-1982), based in New York City, was founded for the purpose of defending the rights of the foreign born, especially radicals and Communist Party members, thereby filling a void left by other civil rights defense groups. The Committee's formation was initiated by Roger Baldwin of the American Civil Liberties Union. The Committee pursued its aims through litigation, legislation and public education. In its early years, the Committee's acti...

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

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Lucy Stone (b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, MA–d. Oct. 18, 1893, Boston, MA) was born to parents Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools always earning far less money than men. In 1847, she became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree from Oberlin College. After college, Stone began her career with the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and began giving public speeches on women's rights. In the fall of 1847, with...

Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Maltz, Albert, 1908-1985

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Author; interviewee d. 1985. From the description of Reminiscences of Albert Maltz : oral history, 1982. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597732 Albert Maltz (1908-1985) was a movie screenwriter, playwright, and novelist during the twentieth century. Born in Brooklyn, New York and educated at Columbia University and Yale University, Maltz started his show business career as a playwright and wrote several plays during the 1930s, including ...

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Rockwell Kent interview, 1957 Sept. 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80242441 Painter, illustrator, writer, lecturer; Ausable Forks, New York. From the description of Rockwell Kent letters to Robert T. Hatt, 1935-1936. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553040 In addition to being a successful painter, printmaker, illustrator, designer, and commercial artist, Kent pursued careers as a writer, professional ...

Reynolds, Bertha Capen, 1885-

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Betsy Estey Talbot Capen was a resident of Stoughton, Mass. Reynolds was her great-granddaughter. From the description of Papers, 1838-1956 (inclusive), 1838-1954 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506633 Social worker; Professor, social work; Author. From the description of Papers 1907-1979 bulk 1925-1979. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 46465318 by Rachel A. Levine Literary Executor Bertha Capen Reynolds,...

Baum, Kurt

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Lohr, George

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Kreymborg, Alfred, 1883-1966

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Alfred Kreymborg was born in New York, grew up on the Lower East Side and later lived in Greenwich Village. He was a frequent contributor to "little" magazines and had frequent collections of his poetry published between 1916 and 1950. He also wrote plays, radio dramas, several novels, and an autobiography. From the description of Alfred Kreymborg letter and poem to Dear old Harry, 1928. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 64582069 ...

Bjöekman, Lucy.

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McKown, Robin

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Robin McKown (1907-1975) was born in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She published over forty works for young adults from the late 1950s through the 1970s. Much of her work includes biographies of famous citizens such as Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, Thomas Paine, Eleanor Roosevelt and others. She co-authored A Mongo homecoming with CU alumna, Mary Elting Folsom. From the description of Robin McKown papers, 1960-1968. (Denver Public Libra...

Jerome, V.J. (Victor Jeremy), 1896-1965

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Victor J. Jerome: American communist, writer, political activist; member of the American Communist Party (1924-1965), rising in the 1930s to Cultural Commissioner; editor of The Communist (later Political Affairs) from 1935-1955; co-defendant in the 1952 Foley Square Trials as a violator of the Smith Act (U.S. 1940); journalist and author. From the description of Victor Jeremy Jerome papers, 1923-1967 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702200823 Victor ...

North, Joseph

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North was the author of No Men Are Strangers, which Brooks had praised. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1958. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 182786666 ...

Mayer, Herschel D.

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Stokes, Rose Pastor, 1879-1933

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Rose Pastor Stokes was a Communist and an editor, lecturer, and author. From the description of Letter, 1914. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007901 Social worker, reformer, and author. From the description of Playscripts of Rose Pastor Stokes, 1913-1915. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71068623 Rose Pastor Stokes was a factory worker from 1890-1902, and a journalist from 1903-1905. In 1917-1918, she opposed the entry of the United States int...

Waserman, Luba.

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Nath, Kedar

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Warwin, Francis.

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Fur and Leather Workers Union.

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Brand, Millen, 1906-1980

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A novelist, screenwriter, and poet. From the description of [Papers] / Millen Brand. 1969. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 13872584 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Author, poet, Hollywood screenwriter, editor at Crown Publishers, Inc., teacher of writing at New York University. Brand was active in the Left during the 1930s and in the Civil Rights movement. From the guide to the Millen Brand Papers, 1919-1976., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscrip...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Ward, Theodore, 1902-1983

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Big white fog was originally written in 1938. The Guthrie Theater's production marked the first full-scale staging of the play since 1940. From the description of Big white fog / by Theodore Ward, 1995. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 709903450 Theodore Ward (1902-1983), African American playwright. From the description of Theodore Ward collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 706098627 Writer. From the description of Papers,...

Bloor, Ella Reeve, 1862-1951

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Radical, labor organizer, socialist, and communist; b. Ella Reeve; married 1st: Lucien Ware; 2nd: Louis Cohen; and 3rd: Andrew Omholt; also known as "Mother Bloor", of Arden, Del. From the description of Papers, 1890-1973. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122404940 "Mother Bloor [Ella Reeve Bloor] speaking at a picnic in Akron, Ohio, 1942" Ella Reeve Bloor, popularly known as "Mother Bloor," was noted for her energetic organizing work on behalf of lab...

Garlin, Sender

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Sender Garlin (1902-1999), was an author and journalist, who wrote for the Socialist Party newspaper, Appeal to Reason, the Communist Party's Western Worker, helped form the John Reed Club in the early 1930s and was a founding editor of the Partisan Review before he moved on to write for the New Masses . From the guide to the Garlin, Sender: Letters to Gil Green, 1980-1987, undated, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives) ...

Evans, Gladys Woods.

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Lieber, Maxim.

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Lowenfels, Walter, 1897-1976

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Walter Lowenfels began working on New jazz poets in 1962 to collect a group of poems written in a "modern rhythm influenced by street sounds and other non-literary sounds of the 1960s" that would be anthologized and a select few recorded for an album. Released in 1967, the album contained readings by twenty-one poets. The anthology containing the works of over seventy poets was published in 1970 as In a time of revolution, poems from our third world. From the description of New jazz ...

Shtern, Sholem

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Toller, Ernst, 1893-1939

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Ernst Toller was born in Germany, and studied in France and Germany. Toller was prominent in the German revolutionary government in 1918, and later was imprisoned for this activity. During his time in prison he wrote many plays. Toller fled to England in 1933 and continued writing. In 1936 he moved to the United States and wrote film scripts. In 1938 Toller travelled to Spain and began organizing relief efforts. From the description of Ernst Toller papers, 1922-1976 (inclusive), 1934...

Aĭzman, Garri.

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Cruz, Manuel de la

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Bjöekman, Edwin August, 1866-

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Wright, Richard, 1908-1960

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was born September 4, 1908 near Natchez, Mississippi, to Ella Wilson Wright, a schoolteacher, and Nathan Wright, a sharecropper. The story of Richard Wright's childhood, with its harrowing episodes of abandonment by his father, his temporary consignment to an orphanage after his mother became ill, and his short-lived schooling under the harsh guardianship of his grandmother have been detailed in his autobiography, Black Boy (published in 1945 by Harper & Row)....

Winwar, Frances, 1900-1985

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American author, biographer, novelist, critic, translator, and professor; b. in Sicily Francesca Vinciguerra; d. in Florida, 1985; emigrated to U.S., 1907; naturalized in 1929. From the description of Frances Winwar collection, 1927-1961. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969557 ...

Labor-Progressive Party

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Whitcomb, John Merral, 1907-

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Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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American novelist and short story writer. From the description of Dashiell Hammett Papers, 1923-1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 85058436 Samuel Dashiell Hammett was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland on May 27, 1894 to a family long in the county. After working as a youth to help support his family, he left home in 1914 and worked as a detective before enlisting in the U.S. Army during Wo...

Kazakevich, Emily Grace.

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Geismar, Maxwell David, 1909-

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Epithet: writer on American literature British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000561.0x000097 ...

Strykover Relief Committee.

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Gilkes, Lillian B. (Lillian Barnard), 1902-1977

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American author, educator, biographer of Cora Crane. From the guide to the Lillian B. Gilkes Papers, 1900-1976, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Cauhāna, Śivadāna Siṃha.

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Flores, Raymond Johnson

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Klotz, Günther.

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Střʹibrnʹy, Zdeněk.

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Cooper, Viola Irene, 1894-1951

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Preece, Harold, 1906-

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Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1916

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Sholem Aleichem (b. Solomon Rabinovich, Feb. 18, 1859, Pereyaslav, Russian Empire–d. May 13, 1916, New York, NY), was a leading Yiddish author and playwright. The musical Fiddler on the Roof was based on his stories about Tevye the Dairyman....

Gilden, K. B

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Fast, Howard, 1914-2003

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Popular and prolific novelist Howard Fast was born in New York City. His parents were poor immigrants, and he worked odd jobs as a youth, crediting his love of reading to a job as a page at the New York Public Library. He published his first novel at eighteen, and found early success writing adventures set in America's past. He worked for the Office of War Information during World War II, writing for the radio program Voice of America. A Communist from about 1944-1956, Fast appeared before the H...

Winston, Henry, 1911-1986

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Škvorecký, Josef.

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Lawson, John Howard, 1894-1977

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John Howard Lawson (1894-1977) was a writer, and head of the Hollywood division of the American Communist Party. Lawson was born in New York City, New York in 1894. After studying at Williams College, he became a successful playwright. In 1928, Lawson moved to Hollywood where he wrote scripts for films such as The Ship for Shanghai, Bachelor Apartment, and Goodbye Love. In 1933, Lawson joined with Lester Cole and Samuel Ornitz to establish the Screen Writers Guild and was the organization's firs...

Roberts, Holland D. (Holland De Witte), 1895-1976

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Johnson, Oakley C., 1890-....

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University of Michigan student, and later, instructor (1920-1928)who acted as faculty advisor to the Negro-Caucasian Club. Also taught at the City College of New York (1930-32), though dismissed in part for involvement in the radical student Liberal Club. From 1940 to 1944, Johnson worked on the staff of the Daily Worker. From the description of Oakley Johnson papers, 1926-1934, 1966-1969. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 244064958 Scholar; civil rights advocate...

Dayan, Anthony D.

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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 ...

Weber, Max, 1881-1961

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Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Max Weber : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309727971 Max Weber (1881-1961) was a painter and sculptor in New York, N.Y. Weber was the National Chairman for the American Artists Congress in 1937. From the description of Max Weber papers, 1904-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756821036 Painter; New York, N.Y. ...

Plotkin, Norman A.

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Mette, Alexander

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Freedman, Blanch

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Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-2003

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American Marxist author, lecturer, and apologist. From the guide to the Herbert Aptheker letter to Mrs. Doares, 1970, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Noted Marxist scholar Dr. Herbert Aptheker was born in New York City in 1915. His more than thirty published books include such titles as THE ERA OF McCARTHYISM (1957), THE WORLD OF C. WRIGHT MILLS (1960), THE URGENCY OF MARXIST-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE (1970), but he is best known for hi...

Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950

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Samuel Putnam was born in Illinois in 1892 and was educated at the universities of Illinois and Chicago. He served as a reporter on the Chicago Tribune, Evening Post, and other papers during the blooming of the Chicago Renaissance, when meeting, interviewing, and working with such notables as Harriet Monroe, Harold Stearns, H.L. Mencken, and Thorstein Veblen. Friendship with Pascal Covici led to his undertaking a translation of the works of Aretino and to joining many of the Chicago literary fig...

Dargan, Olive Tilford, 1869-1968

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American poet, dramatist, and novelist. From the description of Letters to Miss Brown, 1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689947 Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968), was an Appalachian poet and novelist, who lived in North Carolina from 1906 until her death. Under the pseudonym Fielding Burke, she wrote two novels about the Gastonia, North Carolina textile workers' strike of 1929, Call Home the Heart (1932) and A Stone Came Rolling (1935). Rose Pastor Stokes ...

Weiskopf, Grete, 1905-1966

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Bransten, Richard, 1906-1955

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Evergood, Philip, 1901-1973

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Painter; New York, N.Y. From the description of Philip Evergood interview, 1959 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78587895 Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Philip Evergood interview, 1968 Dec. 3 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84162936 Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Philip Evergood and his wife, Julia Evergood. From the description of Letters, 1937-1965, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania...

White, Eliot.

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