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{"value"=>"1926-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1926/1975"}
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{"value"=>"Organizations"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The following organizations have substantive files in this series: the International Labor Defense, Pathway Press, the West Indies National Council, the Frederick Douglass Book Center and the Afro-American Institute. The ILD files document Moore's public speaking and organizational efforts as a Communist Party official in the legal defense of the \"Scottboro Boys\". Included are two letters from Olin Montgomery, brother of one of the defendants, and a handwritten letter from Daisy Bates, one of the two women allegedly raped who later joined in the legal defense of the accused. The files for Pathway Press and the Frederick Douglass Book Center relate mainly to Moore's financial difficulties as an independent publisher and book distributor. The files of the West Indies National Council document Moore's campaign, as official representative of that organization at the 1945 United Nations Conference on Independent Organizations in San Francisco, in favor of self-government for the non-independent territories of the Caribbean. Additional information on the U. N. Conference can be found in the printed matter series.</p> <p>The 1937 sit-down strike in Trinidad and the ensuing violent clashes between black workers and British colonial forces throughout the region are documented in the file Other Caribbean Organizations and Activities.</p>"}
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1926
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1926
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1975
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1926
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1975