Research Catalog

Title

International Labor Defense records, 1926-1946.

Author

International Labor Defense.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Description

• 10 lin. ft.
• 22 microfilm reels.

Summary

Minutes, reports, and financial records of the national offfice of ILD. Case files for the Scottsboro case, the widely reported case of nine boys convicted of rape in Scottsboro, Ala., 1931-1936; the case of Angelo Herndon, a black communist convicted and sentenced to death for his activities as an Unemployed Council (a Communist front organization) organizer in Atlanta, 1932-1937; Tom Mooney, an Irish American labor organizer on the West Coast, 1931-1939; Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian American anarchists accused of armed robbery and murder, 1926-1930; Lucy Parsons, the mulatto wife of Albert Parsons, one of the Chicago Haymarket Square martyrs of 1886; and the case of the Gallup, N. Mex., coal mine workers, 1933-1938. Case files include correspondence, news clippings, leaflets, petitions, press releases, manuscripts for books and articles, legal documents and reports, and speeches.

Subjects

• United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945
• Parsons, Lucy
• African Americans > Political activity
• Labor movement > New Mexico > Gallup
• Working class > United States > Political activity
• Anarchism > United States
• Trials > Massachusetts > Braintree
• Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
• Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States
• Labor unions > Miners > New Mexico
• Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927
• Labor > New Mexico > Gallup
• Communist parties > United States
• Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro
• United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
• Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927
• Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
• Unemployed Councils (U.S.)
• United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
• Gallup (N.M.) > Economic conditions
• International Labor Defense
• Strikes and lockouts > New Mexico > Gallup
• Communist Party of the United States of America
• Working class > New Mexico > Gallup
• Herndon, Angelo, 1913-
• Parsons, Albert
• Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Georgia > Atlanta
• Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
• Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942

Note

• Sc MG 8
• Photographs separated to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats (note)

• Collection available on microfilm.

Source (note)

• Patterson, William L.

Biography (note)

• Established by the Communist Party of the United States of America as its legal defense arm in 1925 to aid labor, political prisoners, and victims of reactionary violence. Using mass demonstrations and publicity, the International Labor Defense (ILD) conducted national and worldwide campaigns to gather support for its cases. In 1946 the ILD merged with the Civil Rights Congress.

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Recataloging UPA edition of microfilm

Call Number

Sc Micro R-981

OCLC

NYPW89-A117

Author

International Labor Defense.

Title

International Labor Defense records, 1926-1946.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional Formats

Collection available on microfilm. University Publications of America.

Biography

Established by the Communist Party of the United States of America as its legal defense arm in 1925 to aid labor, political prisoners, and victims of reactionary violence. Using mass demonstrations and publicity, the International Labor Defense (ILD) conducted national and worldwide campaigns to gather support for its cases. In 1946 the ILD merged with the Civil Rights Congress.

Finding Aids

"Papers of the International Labor Defense; a guide compiled by Martin Schipper." Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1987.

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Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-981