Series I: Scrapbooks

Clippings re: African-Americans in the Spanish Civil War (SCW), general; Salaria Kee (a.k.a. Salaria Kea, later O'Reilly)
Typescript re: Oscar Hunter
Program: "Tribute to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," Avery Fisher Hall, Apr 7, 1986, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Typescript: " 'This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do': African-Americans and the Spanish Civil War," Robin D. G. Kelley (1990); also correspondence between Kelley and JB
Typescripts: "Modern Spain: A Factual Outline," Lowry Field (1944); Partial list of volunteers in Lincoln and Washington Battalions: Brunete, Jarama Front
Clippings re: Vaughan Love; Kenneth Frederick Nelson; Donald Rochon
Maps: Jarama offensive; Brunete offensive; Aragon offensive
Sheet music: "Tell It On and On!," Edith Segal (1974)
Pamphlet: The Negro People and the Soviet Union,Paul Robeson (1950), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Scrapbook titled "The Spanish People's Struggle" on spine]
Pamphlets: The Crime of Francisco Franco; 30 Caricaturas de la Guerra, Ministero de Propaganda de la República Española
Original photos (3, black and white): Spanish peasants; soldier with rifle, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Typescripts: "On the Threshold of Changes," Dolores Ibárruri (translation); "The Phantom Pilot of the Phantom Brigade," Joe Mizrahi; "The Black Volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: The Beginning of a Bibliography"
Pamphlet: ¡No Pasaran!: The 50th Anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Periodicals: Mundo ObreroVol. 12, no. 11 (1989), re: Dolores Ibárruri; Spanien Heute(1986), re: 50th Anniversary of ALB; Der antifaschistische Widerstandskämpfer,Vol. 7 (1986), re: 50th Anniversary of ALB
Programs: "Memories of Spain," concert given by returning veterans on RMS Aunsonia, Dec 16, 1938; "Tribute to the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade," Avery Fisher Hall, Apr 7 1986
Clippings re: Oliver Law; Jim Peck; Paul Williams, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters: Yo Kawanari with JB (1985) re: Japanese volunteer "Jack" (Yoshio?) Shirai; JB personal correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1985; 1987; 1992)
Program and materials: Westchester People's Action Coalition (WESPAC) Peace and Justice Award, Al Warren (1991)
Clippings re: ALB 50th Anniversary (1986-1987); ALB 45th Anniversary; Bill Bailey; Anthony DeMaio; Ralph Fasanella; John Field; Ralph Field; Moe Fishman; Sydney Harris; Charles Nusser; Paul Robeson; William Susman; Cesar Vallejo; Marion Wachtel, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Typescripts: "The Struggle for a Democratic Spain," JB and Al Kent; "Brief Resume on Veterans of the ALB," JB; "US Investments in Spain," Victor Perle (1961); "Origin and Cause of the People's War against Fascism in Spain…," two lectures given at People's School for Marxist Studies (1983); "The Revolt of the Fascist Military"; "Spain: End of the Franco Era?," JB (1963)
Franklin D. Roosevelt, copied excerpt from a statement on Spain (during WWII); various statements on U.S. relations with post-SCW Spain; VALB bulletins
Pamphlet: Speech given by Enrique Carlos de la Casa, Jul 19, 1937
Articles on U.S. and the Franco regime, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Periodicals and pamphlets: Le Volontaire de la Liberté,No. 8 (Jul 1937); Letters from the Trenches from Our Boys in Spain; Two Years of American Aid to Spain: The Story of the Medical Bureau and North American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy(1938?); Among Friends,Spring 1938
Map: Spain, notations in pen
Original photos (2, color): ALB veterans marching in parade; Charles Nusser at French memorial to volunteers of International Brigades, Fuencarel, Spain (1983)
Photocopied photographs of volunteers
Clippings: International Brigades, various; a group labeled "pictures cut out from a book from the Franco Fascist Regime", undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Typescripts: "Spain," Emmet J. Hughes (1955); copy of "The United States of America and the Cause of the Spanish Republic – 1936-1939," Arthur Landis
Announcement of course: "The Spanish Civil War and its International Impact," New School for Social Research, Fall 1981
Pamphlet: "These Americans Say, 'Lift the Embargo Against Republican Spain'" (1939)
Periodicals: World News and ViewsVol. 19, no. 27 (May 1939) re: Czechoslovakia; International Press CorrespondenceVol. 16 No. 20 (Apr 1936) re: Spain
Poster: "The Good Fight", undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs: "People's Unity Rally," welcoming returned veterans from Spain, Cleveland, OH, Jan 22, 1939; "Homenaje a los veteranos de la Brigada Lincoln," Casa de España, New York, NY, Nov 1986
Records: Communist Party assessments of returned Ohio SCW veterans (photocopies): 1939
Flyers: US Committee for a Democratic Spain(1978); "Return to Spain" trip organized by Center for International Studies and Estudios Historicos de la Guerra Civil Española(1983)
Clippings re: Communist Party of Ohio; Cuba; Ernest Hemingway; "Fascist propaganda"; William Herrick; Oliver Law; Monument to American Volunteers in Spain (Spanish Civil War Historical Society); Ronald Radosh; Francisco Garcia Salve; "Spain's Heroism – Lesson in the Fight Against Aggression," JB (1939); USSR press releases re: Spain (1977-1979), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Proclamations: "Captain Oliver Law and Nelson Mandela Day," Apr 24, 1988, Manhattan; "Oliver Law and ALB Day," Nov 21, 1987, Chicago
Typescripts: "The 25th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War"; "1979 Bibliography of the Spanish Civil War"
Flyers: "The Good Fight"; "Malraux-Hemingway: Embattled Spain," symposium, Boston College (1990)
Periodicals: Political Affairs(Aug 1986), re: "International Brigades against War and Fascism 1936-1986"
Copy of letter re: planning of VALB Dinner; dispute over invited speaker Dr. Goodlet's public remarks on Zionism, and protest again inviting him from Zionist members of VALB, 1979 [from Ruth Davidow?]
Clippings re: Bill Bailey; Alvah Bessie; Bill McCarthy; Spanish/Latin American poetry of Spanish Civil War (SCW) period; "To Die in Madrid," 1966 documentary; reviews of SCW-themed books, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Mostly material on prisoners of war in Spain]
Letters: Carl Geiser to JB re: Cuba; re: Prisoners of the Good Fight;Jacob K. Javits to JB; JB personal correspondence
Typescripts include: "Statement to the United Nations by Second Latin American Conference on Amnesty for Political Prisoners and Exiles of Spain and Portugal"; "A Report on Civil Rights and the Position of Political Offenders in Spain," compiled by group of international lawyers after 1960 visit to Madrid; "The Unknown Soldier as a Symbol of the Spanish Civil War," speech given by Charles Nusser at 47th Annual VALB Celebration; "Statement of the World Federation of Democratic Youth Bureau on the Murder of the Spanish Democrat and Patriot, Julian Grimau"; "International Volunteers/Former Members of the Spanish Republican Army Now in Concentration Camps," Felix Kusman, director of Campaign for International Volunteers
Records: Communist Party assessments of four released ALB prisoners: Fred Borer, Edward Johnson, Claude Pringle, Herman Carl Riffe
Pamphlets: Spanish Political and Religious Prisoners,Alfred G. Tucker; Mensaje a la Asemblea de las Naciones Unidas, Primera Conferencia Sudamericana Pro Amnistía para los Presos y Exilados Políticos de España y Portugal(1960), undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Typescripts: Speech given by Sister Benedicta, OSH (daughter of Ramon Sender) for 46th Anniversary of ALB; "Homage to the Lincoln Battalion," Casa de España, New York, NY, 50th Anniversary of ALB, Nov 8 1986; "Address to the 50th Anniversary Dinner of the ALB," speech given by John L. Hess, Apr 5, 1987
Letters: translations of letters to VALB from: A. Osipenko, Spanish Group of Soviet Veterans (1984); Boris Smirnov, Chairman of the Section of the Participants of Spanish Anti-fascist [sic] (1975)
House Resolution (Hawaii) honoring ALB on 50th anniversary of founding (1987); notes to JB from Moe Fishman, 1984 and Miguel Gascon, 1989
Articles: George Seldes, "Franco's Sixth Column ," The Fight,1938; New York Times Magazine, "The Fight for Peace and Democracy," Apr 1938
Clippings and publicity material re: "The Good Fight"; Guernica; Spanish Civil War 50th Anniversary
Pamphlet: ¡No Pasaran!: The 50th Anniversary of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters: "Report on Three Spanish Organizations," Moe Fishman to VALB; JB correspondence with: Alvah Bessie (1980); Ruth M. Decker (1973); Milt Felsen; Carl Geiser (1988); Boris Smirnov (1976?); A. L. Tanz (1986)
Periodical: Volunteer for Liberty(Nov 1946)
Flyer and speech re: Memorial meeting honoring City College students, alumni and teachers who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War, Apr 13, 1980
Clippings re: Chinese volunteers; Ralph Fasanella; Raleigh Frohman; Ben Goldring; George Kaye; Clement Markert; Saul Wellman, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters re: JB pamphlet Black Americans in the Spanish People's War against Fascism(Note hand-written letter from Pete Seeger)
Periodicals: Journal of the Lincoln Brigade (15th Annual; 10th Annual)
Flyers re: John Tisa; James Yates
Clippings re: African-American ALB veterans, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters: Fredericka Martin with JB (1979-1980); Carl Geiser to JB re: Cuba
Typescripts: "Heroines of the Good Fight," Frances Patai (1989); "Report by Charles Nusser and Steve Nelson" re: future role of VALB (n.d.); "Internationalism in Action: The Book Scene," Willi Weinert, Party CC Archives, Communist Party of Austria
Flyer re: Our Fight,ed. Alvah Bessie and Albert Prago
Periodicals: Historical Commission Bulletin; William Winter Comments(Jul 1986)
Clippings re: Nicaragua; "To Die in Madrid," 1966 documentary, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

[Scrapbook titled "Spain 1936-1939" on spine]
Covers of publications: Spain(Oct 1934); Internationella Brigaden,Lise Lindbæk; Prisoners of the Good Fight,Carl Geiser
Card: " Freiheit für Spaniens Patrioten"
Original photos (18, black and white): Soldiers (no battles); war victims; property damage; Spanish people and daily life
Clippings: Pictures from Spanish Civil War, undated, inclusive

Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)