{"value"=>"<p>The Correspondence subseries consists of a response from William Z. Foster to Haywood's article refuting Doxey Wilkerson's article entitled, \"On the Negro Question\", and letters to and from Cyril Briggs, founder of the African Blood Brotherhood and fellow Communist. There are also two letters to Haywood's wife, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, written during Haywood's illness. Numerous letters are long theoretical discussions of current issues, such as Communist Party ideology, the struggle against revisionist leanings in the Party, the passive resistance movement, the NAACP, Black Muslims, and the Black Nationalist movement. Much of the correspondence was water damaged and has been photocopied. The National Question subseries, which refers to the CPUSA's position on the right of self-determination for African Americans, is a wide-ranging subgroup that contains copies of journal articles from the 1930s-1960s; two pieces by James E. Jackson, \"Stalin's Thought Illuminates Problems of the Negro Question\" (1953) and \"Features of the Negro Question in the U.S.\" (1958); a typescript of an article by Cyril Briggs refuting Jackson's theories, as well as resolutions in response to Jackson's theories; and several articles written by other people on white chauvinism, including one by Herbert Aptheker (1950). The Provisional Organizing Committee for a Communist Party (POC), formed in New York City in August 1958, was a largely Black and Puerto Rican group of dissatisfied Party members, who hoped to build a new Marxist-oriented party; Haywood was one of its founders. This subseries consists of correspondence; Haywood's report to the New York Steering Committee and the National Executive Committee (September 1958); New York Steering Committee meeting materials (1958); discussion circle files; and Haywood's resignation in November 1958. A large portion of the subseries is concerned with Haywood's internal party battles with the general secretary of the POC, Armando Roman. The General files subseries includes a draft resolution and clippings on the 16th National Convention (1958), and articles from <span class=\"title\">Political Affairs</span>, 1952-1962.</p>"}