Found 4 collections related to Daily worker

The Lorraine Hansberry Papers document Lorraine Hansberry's life as an award-winning playwright and activist, and chronicles her activities during the Civil Rights Movement. Virtually all of Hansberry's writings, autobiographical materials, journals, diaries, personal and professional correspondence are included here, as well as related materials generated by her late husband, Robert Nemiroff, and his third wife, Jewell Gresham-Nemiroff, as the executors of Hansberry's state. Significant correspondents include Daisy Bates, Louis Burnham, Julian Mayfield, Robert Nemiroff, and William Worthy. less

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. 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. less

The collection ranges from 1927 to 1972 and consists of correspondence, manuscripts and printed matter. Gordon's writings, the bulk of the collection, are organized into three categories: Autobiographical, Fiction and Nonfiction. The autobiographical narratives range from stories of growing up black in New Orleans and rural Georgia to an enemy encounter during World War I in France. There is also a detailed diary of a writing retreat in the New Hampshire White Mountains in 1933. His fiction work includes a compilation of short stories and a complete draft of his novel "Picnic in Court House Square." The nonfiction work ranges from his 1920s articles on the black press and a series of travel articles written in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, to later articles and essays on integration, the columnist George Schuyler and the civil rights movement. "Black Women's Long Tough Course: from 'dat gal' Carline to This Woman Angela," written in defense of Angela Davis in 1972 was his last major essay. less