Socialism
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Arthur W. Calhoun Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000503
Abstract
Arthur Calhoun was an author of many published books, a scholar, and a teacher at a large number of American universities, focusing largely on economics and sociology. His papers reflect both his personal and professional interests and are mainly comprised of manuscripts of his writings on subjects as diverse as religion, history, workers education, gerontology, and the humanities.
Dates:
1899 - 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Arthur W. Calhoun Papers
Carl Haessler Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000031
Abstract
Carl Haessler (1888-1972) was managing editor of the Federated Press (1922-1956), editor of "The United Auto Worker" and many local union papers, a member of the public relations staff of the United Rubber Workers, and was responsible for public relations and publicity for various groups and organizations. This collection is comprised of pamphlets, leaflets, handbills, clippings, articles, radio scripts and union newspapers collected by Haessler. Subjects include civil rights, social reform,...
Dates:
1908 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1961
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Carl Haessler Papers
Charles Ashleigh Papers
Collection — Box Small Processed Collections: A - Bo, Box 1, Folder: 6
Identifier: LP001110
Abstract
This collection consists of transcripts of interviews with Charles Ashleigh (born in 1892) conducted by the Sussex Society for the Study of Labor History in 1973 and 1975. Ashleigh describes his personal experiences with the Industrial Workers of the World and other radical groups in the years prior to and during World War I and the early 1920s.
Dates:
1973; 1975
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Charles Ashleigh Papers
Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC): John Mecartney Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002692
Abstract
John Mecartney (1922-2004) was a lifelong activist with civil rights, peace and nonviolent defense and farm worker issues. He graduated from Garrett Theological Seminary and served as a United Methodist minister in Wisconsin. After receiving his Ph.D. from Northwestern University he taught sociology and peace studies at Wayne State University, University of Detroit Mercy, Bluffton College, and Albion College. He was on the board of Methodists United for Peace with Justice, as well as an active...
Dates:
1943 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1980
Don Binkowski Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000796
Abstract
Don Binkowski spent his career serving the people of Michigan as a Warren councilman, delegate of the Michigan Constitutional Convention, and judge in the 37th District Court. Privately, Binkowski, a passionate historian, copiously researched and wrote extensively on Polish and Polish-American history and interests, and on North Detroit. This collection is mainly comprised of Binkowski’s research collected in the pursuit of publication, specifically his three books: Col. P.W. Norris –...
Dates:
1920 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1980
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Don Binkowski Papers
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000022
Abstract
Shmarya Kleinman was born in Russia around 1891 and studied medicine in Russia and Poland before emigrating to the United States in 1923. In 1927, he established his medical practice in Detroit. Dr. Kleinman and his wife, Rose, were active in the affairs of the Jewish Community Council of Detroit, a local civil and human rights advocacy group. The papers of Dr. Kleinman consist of personal correspondence with socialist Angelica Balabanoff, who participated in the Bolshevik revolution and was...
Dates:
1944 - 1962
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Dr. Shmarya Kleinman Papers
Ed Spira Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001370
Abstract
Ed Spira was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), in particular the San Francisco Bay Area Branch. His collection includes a variety of IWW and San Francisco Bay Area Branch documents including General Organization Bulletins, financial statements, correspondence, and some writings by Spira.
Dates:
1950 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Ed Spira Papers
Edward Levinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000085
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, research notes, and other materials collected by Mr. Levinson, author of Break Strikes, and Labor on the March, and director of publicity for the UAW. Subjects include strikebreaking in the National Maritime Union, early unions in the auto industry, the Black Legion, the Socialist Party, war production, and wage and price ceilings. Among the correspondents are Victor Reuther, Franklin Roosevelt, and R. J. Thomas.
Dates:
1910 - 1945
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Edward Levinson Papers
Elizabeth Morgan Papers
Collection — Box Small Processed Collections, Box 16, Folder: 10
Identifier: LP001646
Abstract
Elizabeth Morgan was a Quaker and social activist. Elizabeth collected music and shared it as a method of teaching others about suppression and exploitation. Elizabeth and her husband, Ernest Morgan, founded the Arthur Morgan School that focused on creating a safe, loving environment for young teenagers in a rural setting to help students prosper and inspire them to make positive social and ecological changes in the world.This collection consists of a book of 1930s-1940s era labor...
Dates:
circa 1964
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Elizabeth Morgan Papers
Enid Eckstein Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001194
Abstract
Enid Eckstein was a member of the Detroit District of the International Socialists and worked as an inspector at Chrysler’s Lynch Road Assembly plant. Represented by UAW Local 51, she served as a chief steward and on the local’s Community Services, Women’s and Resolutions Committees. In 1973 she helped form the United Coalition, one of many militant, rank-and-file groups that sprang up in Detroit auto plants in the 1970s, on whose slate she ran unsuccessfully for Trustee in 1975 and for...
Dates:
1969 - 1981
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Enid Eckstein Papers
Finnish Socialist Oral Histories
Collection
Identifier: LOH002217
Abstract
In 1976, an oral history project was conducted, likely spearheaded by Elvera Kanerva, who was the primary interviewer, to document the politics and lives of Finnish-American socialists. Collection consists of eight interviews with Finnish-American socialists on their political views, community, and lives. Recordings exist for all interviews. Transcripts exist for the following interviews: Ida Bjorkquist, Charles Jay, James Jukela, Elvera Kanerva, and Ilma Reynolds. The James Jukela interview...
Dates:
1976-07 - 1976-10
Genora and Sol Dollinger Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000633
Abstract
A highly active union advocate, Genora Dollinger was a charter member of the Flint Socialist Party and organized Flint Women's Auxiliary #10 and the Women's Emergency Brigade, which played a crucial role in the success of the Flint Sit-down Strike of 1937. Her husband, Sole Dollinger was an organizer for the Socialist Workers Party. The papers of Genora and Sol Dollinger relate largely to Ms. Dollinger's involvement in the Flint Sit-down Strike, and to a lesser extent, the Dollinger's...
Dates:
1914 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1989
George C. Edwards, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: UP000238
Abstract
George Edwards, Sr. began his professional career as an educator before he turned to law where he gained a reputation as a pro-labor, pro-ACLU, pro-NAACP lawyer. Politically an active Socialist for over 50 years, he continued throughout his career to champion the downtrodden, specializing in cases involving discrimination or usury. Outside of law practice, he took great personal interest in human rights, fighting segregation and child labor, and supporting women’s suffrage. His papers cover...
Dates:
1863 - 1960
George Lavan Weissman Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001347
Abstract
A founding member of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the Fourth International, George Lavan Weissman served as a branch organizer, as director and editor of Pioneer Publishing and Pathfinder Press, as manager of Mountain Spring Camp and as the editor and writer of various SWP publications. Following his expulsion from the SWP, Mr. Weissman helped to form the Fourth Internationalist Tendency and served on the editorial board of the Bulletin in Defense of Marxism. Mr. Weissman’s papers...
Dates:
1935 - 1985
George Shenkar Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001430
Abstract
George Shenkar was an engineer with the Detroit Water Board from 1947-1950, whose controversial dismissal led to a city charter amendment requiring all city employees to take a loyalty oath to the U.S. His papers reflect his interest in socialism and document the circumstances surrounding his dismissal from the Board.
Dates:
1947 - 1981; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1968
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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George Shenkar Papers
Guy Stern Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001681
Abstract
Guy Stern was born in 1922 in Germany. He moved to the United States before the commencement of World War II, joined the U.S. military. After the war Stern earned his PhD from Columbia University and served as a Professor at various colleges in the U.S. and Germany over the course of his life focusing on German literature.Stern retired in 2003 from Wayne State University as a Distinguished Professor, but stays active in lecturing and academia.The Guy Stern Papers contain...
Dates:
1939 - 1985
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Guy Stern Papers
Harry Riseman Papers
Collection — Box Small Processed Collections: O-R, Box 12, Folder: 13
Identifier: LP001076
Abstract
Attorney Harry Riseman was active in various socialist and labor organizations, including the Detroit Labor College, the Socialist Party of Wayne County, Michigan, and the Michigan Old-Age Pension League. Mr. Riseman’s papers primarily concern the issue of pensions for senior citizens, and also include materials related to socialist labor organizations in Detroit.
Dates:
1930 - 1936
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Harry Riseman Papers
Helen Schiff Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001172
Abstract
The Helen Schiff Collection consists of materials documenting the 1940 split in the
Socialist Workers Party and the founding of the Young Socialist Alliance and the Young
Socialists (Canada) in the early 1960's. In addition, it contains miscellaneous reports,
bulletins, and newsletters of the Socialist Workers Party and the Fourth International.
Dates:
1940 - 1967
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Helen Schiff Papers
Herman Wolf Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000167
Abstract
Herman Wolf became an active member of the Socialist Party while in college and subsequently embarked on a career as a labor newspaper editor and publicity agent with several labor unions and city newspapers. He applied his background in working for the U.S. government during WWII, a mass housing production organization, and local political groups. His papers cover these facets of his professional career. Part II specifically addresses Wolf’s activities at the U.S. Treasury Department working...
Dates:
1924 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1933 - 1958
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Herman Wolf Papers
Hy Fish Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001156
Abstract
Hy Fish was born June 11, 1913. He lived in Chicago and earned his MBA from the University
of Chicago in 1960. Hy was a Socialist who was active in the Young Peoples Socialist League
where he was the business manager of their monthly newspaper, “The Challenge.” After the Flint sit-down strike began in 1936, Hy was sent to Flint to act as an organizer for the Socialist Party. Awhile later he became a labor education teacher at Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL., and traveled to India and...
Dates:
1909 - 1966; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Hy Fish Papers
International Socialists Records
Collection
Identifier: LR001225
Abstract
The International Socialists existed from 1968 -1986 in the U.S. with national headquarters in Detroit, and branches in 14 other cities. It was preceded by the Independent Socialist Club, established in Berkley in 1964, which then formed an International Socialist Committee. The International Socialist Club appealed to radical student and Maoist groups. Kim Moody, contributor of several pivotal writings to the socialist cause, helped to establish a branch of the Independent Socialist Club in...
Dates:
1943 - 1985; Majority of material found within 1970 - 1980
Irving Pokempner Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000132
Abstract
Various socialist, radical, left-wing, and miscellaneous periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and leaflets collected by Mr. Pokempner, a Detroit businessman with a life-long interest in movements of social and economic reform. Periodicals include New Masses (1931-41), International Press Correspondence (1932-37), American Socialist Monthly (1936). and International Review (1936-38).
Dates:
1937 - 1959
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Irving Pokempner Papers
Jack Barbash Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001237
Abstract
Jack Barbash held positions in the federal government, the labor movement, and academia, serving in departments such as the U.S. Office of Education, the Department of Labor, and the National Labor Relations Board. Mr. Barbash served as Research and Education Director for the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union and for the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) Industrial Union, and served a term as president of the American Association of University Professors...
Dates:
1920 - 1989
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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Jack Barbash Papers
James Lindahl Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP001061
Abstract
James Lindahl served as Recording Secretary for the United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (UAW-CIO) Local 190 (Packard Motor Car Plant). Mr. Lindahl’s papers document his work for Local 190 and also include publications reflecting his interest in union membership and organizing, U.S. politics, the American worker, dissident groups, civil rights, and socio-economics, among other related subjects.
Dates:
1930 - 1959
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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James Lindahl Papers
John and Phyllis Collier Photographs
Collection
Identifier: LAV000141
Abstract
John Collier (1874-1947) was interested in various socialist, radical, liberal, and anarchist causes, and was a life-long student of philosophy, theology, mysticism, and psychic phenomena. Phyllis Feningston Collier was John Collier's secretary and life-long companion who was active in the labor movement. Collection consists of images collected by Phyllis Collier. Emphasis is on John Collier and his activities, such as his brief acting career, but also included are photographs of friends and...
Dates:
1911 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1925