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Description

1. 10 lin. ft.

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Mooney, Thomas J., 1882-1942
2. Parsons, Lucy
3. Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
4. United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
5. United States > Social conditions > 1918-1932
6. United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945
7. International Labor Defense
8. Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > United States
9. Labor > New Mexico > Gallup
10. Working class > New Mexico > Gallup
11. Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927
12. Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886
13. Parsons, Albert
14. Strikes and lockouts > New Mexico > Gallup
15. Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927
16. Unemployed Councils (U.S.)
17. African Americans > Political activity
18. Communist parties > United States
19. Labor movement > New Mexico > Gallup
20. Herndon, Angelo, 1913-
21. Trials > Massachusetts > Braintree
22. Labor unions > Miners > New Mexico
23. Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
24. Trials (Rape) > Alabama > Scottsboro
25. Trials (Political crimes and offenses) > Georgia > Atlanta
26. Working class > United States > Political activity
27. Gallup (N.M.) > Economic conditions
28. Communist Party of the United States of America
29. Anarchism > United States

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-981

Note

1. Sc MG 8
2. Photographs separated to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats (note)

1. Collection available on microfilm.

Source (note)

1. Patterson, William L.

Biography (note)

1. 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)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Recataloging UPA edition of microfilm

Author

1. International Labor Defense.

Title

1. International Labor Defense records, 1926-1946.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats

1. Collection available on microfilm. University Publications of America.

Biography

1. 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

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

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1. Finding Aid

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-981