Sidney Lens papers, 1910-1986.

Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994

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Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, Nixon previously served as the 36th vice president from 1953 to 1961, having risen to national prominence as a representative and senator from California. After five years in the White House that saw the conclusion to the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, détente with the Soviet Union and China, and the establishment of the Environm...

United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), principal foreign intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the U.S. government. Formally created under the provisions of the National Security Act of 1947, approved July 26, 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) grew out of the World War II Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Previous U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence efforts had been conducted by the military and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and suffered from duplication, compe...

People's Party

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Communist League of America

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Kutcher, James.

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Goldblatt Bros.

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New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

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Known informally as the "New Mobe", the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam was the successor to the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. The group's primary activity was organizing and staging massive demonstrations against United States participation in the Vietnam War. During 1970, the committee was reborn as the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. From the description of Collection, 1969-1970. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). Wo...

Revolutionary Workers League

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The Revolutionary Workers League (RWL) was a radical left group in the United States formed in 1935 and active until about 1947. The League was formed by Hugo Oehler in November 1935 following a split from the Workers Party (WP), a split precipitated by the party's decision to merge the WP with the Socialist Party of America. In 1937 the League renounced Trotskyism altogether, although disputes arose within the League as to precisely when Trotsky abandoned Marxism. In the Spanish Civil War the R...

Cannon, James P.

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Caldwell, Max L.

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Okun, Sid.

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National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam

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Wieboldt's (Department store chain : Chicago, Ill.)

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Waller, Odell

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Department Store Employees Union. Local 291.

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Worker's Party.

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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...

Hickman, James Willis, 1907-1981.

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United Grocery and Produce Employees Union. Local 329.

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Kissinger, Charles C. (Charles Clark)

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Impeach Nixon Committee.

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Hayden, Tom.

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Green, Gil, 1906-1997

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Gil Green (1906-1997), born Gilbert Greenberg in Chicago, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was a Communist youth leader in the 1930s, a member of the Communist Party's Politburo, a Smith Act defendant, and the chief (albeit unofficial) figure of a reformist current in the CPUSA through 1991. He joined the Young Workers League (later the Young Communist League) in 1924, and shortly thereafter, the CPUSA, and in 1932 became national secretary of the YCL, a position he held throughout the deca...

Hillman's (Chicago, Ill.)

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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, ...

Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union

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Lens, Shirley

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Shirley Lens died Oct. 24, 2005. From the description of Shirley Lens papers, ca. 1965-1980. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 713907926 ...

United States Bureau of Investigation

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Citizens Party.

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Voters for Peace.

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Lens, Sidney

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Sidney Lens, 1912-1986 (his birthname was Sidney Okun). From the description of Sidney Lens papers, 1910-1986. (Chicago History Museum). WorldCat record id: 717289504 ...

Building Service Employees' International Union

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United Service Employees Union. Local 329.

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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Lynd, Staughton.

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Civil rights, labor, and peace activist; Quaker; b. 1929. From the description of Staughton and Alice Lynd papers, 1965-1971. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 122457376 ...