Jack and Sue Kling papers, 1926-1991 (bulk 1978-1991).

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Jack and Sue Kling papers, 1926-1991 (bulk 1978-1991).

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Correspondence, Community Party membership cards and certificates, autograph book (1926-1928), and other papers of Jack Kling (1911-1990), an active member of the Young Communist League, representative to the World Youth Congress in 1936, and national treasurer of the Community Party USA. Included are letters of condolence, a manuscript of Kling's autobiography: Where the Action Is, and 2 scrapbooks (1986, 1982-1991) consisting of photographs, letters, and programs relating to Kling. Also present is a folder of correspondence and writings of Samuel Hammersmark, who was also a labor organizer from Chicago.

1.5 linear ft. (2 boxes and 2 vol.)

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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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...

Hammersmark, Samuel.

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Kling, Jack, 1911-1990.

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Kling, Susan 1912-

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Hamzik, Joseph, 1918-1998

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