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Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives
Collection processed by Peter Filardo and Elliot Silver, 2002
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Descriptive Summary Creator: Allen, James S. Title: James Allen Papers Dates: Bulk, 1945-1970 Dates: 1920-1986, (Bulk 1945-1970) Abstract: James S. Allen, born Sol Auerbach (1906-1986), was an organizer, Marxist scholar, writer and editor for the Communist Party, USA. He was a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and was in the first American student delegation to the Soviet Union. In 1928, he joined the Communist Party and began writing for the Daily Worker. He was a leading party organizer in the south in the early 1930s, and edited the Labor Defender and Southern Worker. In the late 1930's, he travelled to the Phillippines where he helped to arrange the merger of the socialist and Communist parties. His books include: The Negro Question in the United States (1936), Atomic Energy and Society (1949), and Organizing in the Depression South: A Communist's Memoir (2001). From 1962 to 1972, Allen also headed International Publishers, the CPUSA publishing house. The collection includes his correspondence, Communist Party documents, and scrapbooks. Quantity: 7.5 Linear feet (8 boxes) Call Phrase: TAM 142 Return to top
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library 70 Washington Square South New York, NY, 10012 (212) 998-2630 gail.malmgreen at nyu.edu
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