League for Industrial Democracy Records
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Abstract
The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society by democratic socialist intellectuals to bring "education for the new social order" to the nation's campuses, but its name was changed in 1920 to broaden appeal and better reflect aims of social ownership and democratic control of industry. This collection contains the LID's records from the 1920s-1990s, including financial and membership records, correspondence, meeting minutes, conference and lecture materials, and other materials related to the activities and operation of the League for Industrial Democracy.
Historical/Biographical Note
The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was founded in 1905 as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society by democratic socialist intellectuals to bring "education for the new social order" to the nation's campuses, but its name was changed in 1920 to broaden appeal and better reflect aims of social ownership and democratic control of industry. In 1922, Norman Thomas (1884-1968; later the Socialist Party's head and presidential candidate) joined Harry W. Laidler as Co-Director. LID campaigned throughout 1920s and 1930s for public power development through the Committee on Coal and Giant Power, a spin off group established in conjunction with American Civil Liberties Union and chaired by H. S. Rauschenbush. The LID also sought to preserve civil liberties through the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief (chaired by John Herling) which aided strikers across the nation with direct relief, organization, and the formation of defense committees for persecutred activists. Laidler's retirement as Director in 1957 led to the succession of Sidney Hertzberg, who aimed to make LID a forum for liberal study. Later leader, Michael Harrington (1928-1989), sought to build constituency of labor, intellectuals, and Black civil rights activists. By the later 1970s, the LID had become politically associated with Social Democrats USA (a grouping of union officials and others with roots in the socialist and Trotskyist movements, whose posture is militantly anti-communist but also retains a commitment to aspects of liberalism), and although still extant as of 2010, it appears to be inactive.
The LID led the defense of Athos Terzani, Italian antifascist framed (in 1933) for murder by (pro-fascist group) Khaki Shirt leader Art Smith, which resulted in Smith's own indictment for perjury. During the Great Depression the LID sought to alleviate plight of unemployed by campaigning for national unemployment insurance, organizing unions of the unemployed by campaigning for national unemployment insurance, opening "recreation huts" (which resembled settlement houses), and publishing The Unemployed, a magazine to bring the socialist vision to the jobless. During Socialist Party schisms of 1930s, Norman Thomas used his LID position to secure leadership of the Militant faction to battle Old Guard. During World War II, the LID supported nation's war effort while defending the social advances of 1930s. Its post-war posture was anti communist.
Arrangement
The collection is organized into three series. Files in Series I: Processed Records arranged alphabetically by topic. Series II: Addendum has not been arranged by an archivist. Series III: Photographs is arranged alphabetically by name of featured individual and by subject. The series arrangement of the records is as follows:
Series I: Processed Records
Series II: Addendum
Series III: Photographs
Scope and Contents
The League for Industrial Democracy Records (dated 1920-1996) contain minutes, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets, financial documents, and membership records created by the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). The first portion of this collection is fully processed, and consists of meeting minutes of the Board of Directors, 1920-1970; committee correspondence, including the Committee on Coal and Giant Power and the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief; membership lists; schedules for lecture tours; information relating to the work of the Chicago Workers' Committee for the Unemployed Chairman Karl Borders; transcripts of annual conferences; press clippings; material on the defense of Athos Terzane; a scrapbook of photos from southern labor Chautauquas; funding requests; and a collection of labor songs.
The second portion of collection is partially processed and includes box-level descriptions. These materials contain administrative and financial records from the 1960s to the 1990s, which include articles, pamphlets, fundraising records, correspondence, research files, Board of Directors and Executive Committee minutes, and membership files. There is a significant amount of material documenting LID's annual conferences and institutes, including material related to their United States-wide Student-Labor Institutes.
Additionally, the collection contains black-and-white photographs of individuals and events between the 1950s and 1970s. Included among these materials are negatives and photographs from a disassembled scrapbook.
Subjects
Organizations
Genres
People
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the League for Industrial Democracy, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; League for Industrial Democracy Records; TAM 049; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Location of Materials
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records may have been initially donated by the League for Industrial Democracy in the early 1970s. Additional accessions were donated by the League for Industrial Democracy in 1993 and 2001. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2001.192, 2001.193, and NPA 2008.016
Separated Materials
In 1987, sound recordings were separated from the collection to OH 500.
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Processing Information
Photographs were separated from this collection during initial processing and were established as a separate collection, the League for Industrial Democracy Photographs (PHOTOS 253). In 2013, the photograph collection was reincorporated into the League for Industrial Democracy Records.
In 2013, the unprocessed portion of materials (Series II) were inventoried. Loose materials were foldered and labelled. In 2017 several materials in Series II: Addendum were rehoused and two boxes were added to the collection. Box numbers and extensts were updated to reflect the addition of these boxes.
Revisions to this Guide
Repository
Series I: Processed Records, 1921-1970, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series contains the records of the League for Industrial Democracy from the 1920s-1970s. This include correspondence with individuals, chapters, and other organizations; board of directors and other meeting minutes; financial records; annual conferences; membership files; materials from their lecture series; pamphlets; publications; materials generated by Harry Laidler; and other subject files.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically.
About LID, 1925-1957, inclusive
Activities, 1931-1932, inclusive
Activities, 1934
Activities, 1937, inclusive
Activities, 1938, inclusive
Activities, 1939, inclusive
Activities, 1940, inclusive
Activities, 1941, inclusive
Activities, 1942, inclusive
Activities, 1943, inclusive
Activities, 1945-1946, inclusive
Activities, 1947, inclusive
Activities, 1948, inclusive
Activities, 1949, inclusive
Activities, 1950, inclusive
Activities, 1951-1952, inclusive
Activities, 1953-1954, inclusive
Activities, 1955, inclusive
Activities, 1956-1957, inclusive
Activities, 1958-1960, inclusive
Activities, 1963, inclusive
Activities, 1964, inclusive
Activities, 1965, inclusive
Activities, 1966, inclusive
Activities, 1967, inclusive
Activities, 1968, inclusive
Activities, 1970, inclusive
Activities
Advertising, 1950-1951, inclusive
Advertising, 1956-1961, inclusive
Amalgamated Bank, 1927-1928, inclusive
American Appeal, 1927, inclusive
Articles, 1925, inclusive
Articles, 1947, inclusive
Articles, 1953, inclusive
Articles, 1954, inclusive
Articles, 1955, inclusive
Articles, 1956-1957, inclusive
Articles
Attacks on LID by Conservative Groups, 1920-1929, inclusive
Attacks on LID by Conservative Groups
Benedict, John K., 1949-1950, inclusive
Benedict, John K., 1951, inclusive
Benedict, John K., 1952, inclusive
Benedict, John K., 1953, inclusive
Bequests, 1957, inclusive
Biographical Material
Blanshard, Paul, 1924, inclusive
Blanshard, Paul, 1928, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1933, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1939, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1940, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1941, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1946, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1947, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1949, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1950, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1951, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1952, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1953, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1954, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1955, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1956, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1957, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1958, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1959, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1960, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1961, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1962, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1963, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1964, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1965, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1966, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1967, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1969, inclusive
Board of Directors, 1970, inclusive
Board of Directors
Brockton, 1927-1928, inclusive
Chapters
Chapters, NY, 1937, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1942-1945, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1950-1951, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1952, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1953, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1954, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1955, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1956, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1957, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1958, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1959, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1960, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1961, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1962, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1963, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1964, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1965, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1966, inclusive
Chapters, NY, 1969, inclusive
Chapters, NY
Chapters, Other Cities, 1942-1943, inclusive
Chapters, Other Cities, 1947, inclusive
Chapters, Other Cities, 1950, inclusive
Chapters, Other Cities, 1951, inclusive
Chapters, Other Cities, 1956-1961, inclusive
Chapters, Other Cities
Clippings
Committee, Administrative, 1957, inclusive
Committee, Administrative
Committee on Coal and Giant Power, 1924-1926, inclusive
Committee on Coal and Giant Power, 1927-1928, inclusive
Committee on Coal and Giant Power, 1927-1928, inclusive
Committee on Coal and Giant Power - Finances, 1927, inclusive
Committee on Coal and Giant Power - Finances, 1928, inclusive
Committee on Economic Policy
Committee, Fifty-Second Annual Conference, 1956, inclusive
Committee, Finance, 1927-1928, inclusive
Committee, Finance, 1950-1955, inclusive
Committee, Finance, 1956, inclusive
Committee, Finance, 1957, inclusive
Committee, Finance, 1958-1961, inclusive
Committee, International Affairs/Relations, 1957, inclusive
Committee, Labor Advisory, 1959, inclusive
Committee, Natural Resources, 1953, inclusive
Committee, Nominations
Committee, Pamphlet, 1952, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1953, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1954, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1955, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1956, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1957, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1958, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1959-1960, inclusive
Committee, Pamphlet, 1961, inclusive
Committee, Publications
Committee, Reorientation, 1955, inclusive
Committee, Reorientation, 1956-1957, inclusive
Committee, Research
Committee to Study Constitution & Bylaws, 1964, inclusive
Conference, Annual (20th), 1925, inclusive
Conference, Annual (30th), 1935, inclusive
Conference, Annual (32nd), 1937, inclusive
Conference, Annual (35th), 1940, inclusive
Conference, Annual (40th), 1945, inclusive
Conference, Annual (41st), 1946, inclusive
Conference, Annual (42nd), 1947, inclusive
Conference, Annual (43rd), 1948, inclusive
Conference, Annual (44th), 1949, inclusive
Conference, Annual (44th), 1949, inclusive
Conference, Annual (45th), 1950, inclusive
Conference, Annual (45th), 1950, inclusive
Conference, Annual (45th), 1950, inclusive
Conference, Annual (45th), 1950, inclusive
Conference, Annual (46th), 1951, inclusive
Conference, Annual (46th), 1951, inclusive
Conference, Annual (46th) - Press Releases and News Clippings, 1951, inclusive
Conference, Annual (46th) - Speakers, 1951, inclusive
Conference, Annual (47th), 1952, inclusive
Conference, Annual (48th), 1953, inclusive
Conference, Annual (49th), 1954, inclusive
Conference, Annual (50th), 1955, inclusive
Conference, Annual (50th), 1955, inclusive
Conference, Annual (50th) - Clippings and Press Releases, 1955, inclusive
Conference, Annual (50th) - Form Letters and Notices, 1955, inclusive
Conference, Annual (50th) - Speakers, 1955, inclusive
Conference, Annual (51st), 1956, inclusive
Conference, Annual (51st) - Form Letters and Notices, 1956, inclusive
Conference, Annual (51st) - Speakers, 1956, inclusive
Conference, Annual (52nd), 1957, inclusive
Conference, Annual (52nd) - Form Letters and Notices, 1957, inclusive
Conference, Annual (52nd) - Speakers, 1957, inclusive
Conference, Annual (53rd), 1958, inclusive
Conference, Annual (54th), 1959, inclusive
Conference, Annual (54th), 1959, inclusive
Conference, Annual (54th) - Journal, 1959
Conference, Annual (55th), 1960, inclusive
Conference, Annual (55th) - Journal, 1960, inclusive
Conference, Annual (55th) - Speakers, 1960, inclusive
Conference, Annual (56th), 1961, inclusive
Conference, Annual (56th) - Journal, 1961, inclusive
Conference, Annual (56th) - Speakers, 1961, inclusive
Conference, Annual (57th), 1962, inclusive
Conference, Annual (58th), 1963, inclusive
Conference, Annual (60th), 1965, inclusive
Conference, Annual (61st), 1966, inclusive
Conference, Annual (62nd), 1967, inclusive
Conference, Annual (64th), 1969, inclusive
Conference, Annual (65th), 1970, inclusive
Conference, Delinquency, 1959-1960, inclusive
Conference, June, 1922, inclusive
Conference, June (23rd), 1937, inclusive
Conference, June (24th), 1938, inclusive
Conference, June (25th), 1939, inclusive
Conference, June (26th), 1940, inclusive
Conference, June (27th), 1941, inclusive
Conferences, Regional, 1928-1929, inclusive
Conference, Summer (17th) - Proceedings, 1931, inclusive
Conference, Summer (18th), 1932, inclusive
Conference, Summer (19th), 1933, inclusive
Conference, Summer (20th), 1934, inclusive
Conference, Summer (21st), 1935, inclusive
Conference, Summer (22nd), 1936, inclusive
Conference, Winter, 1927, inclusive
Conference, Winter - Dinner, 1927, inclusive
Conference, Winter, 1928, inclusive
Conferences, Various
Contacts
Correspondence, 1924, inclusive
Correspondence, 1926, inclusive
Correspondence A-D, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence E-H, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence I-M, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence N-R, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence S-V, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence W-Z, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence, 1930, inclusive
Correspondence, 1937, inclusive
Correspondence, 1938, inclusive
Correspondence, 1939, inclusive
Correspondence, 1940, inclusive
Correspondence, 1941, inclusive
Correspondence, 1942, inclusive
Correspondence, 1943, inclusive
Correspondence, 1944, inclusive
Correspondence, 1945, inclusive
Correspondence, 1946, inclusive
Correspondence, 1947, inclusive
Correspondence, 1948, inclusive
Correspondence, 1949, inclusive
Correspondence, 1950-1951, inclusive
Correspondence, 1950-1951, inclusive
Correspondence, 1952, inclusive
Correspondence, 1953, inclusive
Correspondence, 1954, inclusive
Correspondence, 1955, inclusive
Correspondence, 1956, inclusive
Correspondence, 1957, inclusive
Correspondence, 1958, inclusive
Correspondence, 1959, inclusive
Correspondence, 1960, inclusive
Correspondence, 1961, inclusive
Correspondence, 1962, inclusive
Correspondence, 1963, inclusive
Correspondence, 1963-1964, inclusive
Correspondence, 1964, inclusive
Correspondence, 1965, inclusive
Correspondence, 1965, inclusive
Correspondence, 1965, inclusive
Correspondence, 1966, inclusive
Correspondence, 1966, inclusive
Correspondence, 1967, inclusive
Correspondence, 1967, inclusive
Correspondence, 1967, inclusive
Correspondence, 1968, inclusive
Correspondence, 1968, inclusive
Correspondence, 1968-1969, inclusive
Correspondence
Correspondence - Administration, 1956-1961, inclusive
Correspondence - Books and Manuscripts, 1957-1961, inclusive
Correspondence - Foreign, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence - Form Letters - Board and Committee Meetings, 1954, inclusive
Correspondence - Inquiries, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence - Letters of Introduction and Reccomendation, 1950-1951, inclusive
Correspondence - Letters of Introduction, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence - Literature, 1950-1951, inclusive
Correspondence - Literature, 1957-1958, inclusive
Correspondence - Literature, 1959-1961, inclusive
Correspondence - Post Office, 1928, inclusive
Correspondence - Post Office, 1950-1951, inclusive
Correspondence - Post Office, 1957-1960, inclusive
Correspondence - Power, 1927-1928, inclusive
Correspondence - Requests, 1927-1928, inclusive
Delegates, 1950-1951, inclusive
Delegates, 1957-1961, inclusive
Dinner for Abrams, Charles, 1953, inclusive
Dinner for Clapp, Gordon and Walter Frank, 1956, inclusive
Dinner for Coldwell, M.J., 1944, inclusive
Dinner for Counts, George and Abraham Lefkowitz, 1953, inclusive
Dinner for Dewey, John (90th Birthday), 1949, inclusive
Dinner for Dewey, John (90th Birthday), 1949, inclusive
Dinner for Dewey, John (90th Birthday), 1949, inclusive
Dinner for Humphrey, Hubert, 1948, inclusive
Dinner for Kilpatrick, William (85th Birthday), 1956, inclusive
Dinner for Kilpatrick, William (90th Birthday), 1961, inclusive
Dinner for Russell, Bertrand, 1927, inclusive
Dinner for Thomas, Norman, 1954, inclusive
Dinner for Thomas, Norman (75th Birthday), 1959, inclusive
Dissent Magazine
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Briggs Strike, Detroit, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Continental Congress of Workers & Farmers, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Doll & Toy Workers Strike, New York, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Dressmakers Strike, New York, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - General Defense Committee, Chicago, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - John Herling - Personal Correspondence, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Kentucky Miners, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Marine Workers' Defense Committee, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Massachusetts Shoe & Leather Workers, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Miscellaneous, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Mooney and Scotsboro Defense, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - North Carolina, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Pennsylvania Miners, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - Progressive Miners of America, 1932-1933, inclusive
Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief - West Virginia Miners, 1932-1933, inclusive
Employment, 1927-1928, inclusive
Events (non-LID)
Executive Director Search, 1956, inclusive
Farmer, James - Speaking Tour, 1952, inclusive
Farmer, James - Speaking Tour, 1953, inclusive
Finance, 1927-1928, inclusive
Finance, 1935, inclusive
Finance, 1939, inclusive
Finance, 1940, inclusive
Finance, 1943, inclusive
Finance, 1946, inclusive
Finance, 1947, inclusive
Finance, 1957-1958, inclusive
Finance
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1927-1928, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1950-1951, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1956, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1957, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1958, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1959, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1960, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds, 1961, inclusive
Finance - Appeal for Funds
Finance - Audit, 1959, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1949, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1950-1955, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1956-1957, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1958-1959, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1960, inclusive
Finance - Contributions, 1961, inclusive
Finance - Contributions
Finance - Expense Accounts, 1927-1928, inclusive
Finance - Form Letters, 1949, inclusive
Finance - Form Letters, 1950-1953, inclusive
Finance - Form Letters, 1954-1955, inclusive
Finance - Form Letters, 1956-1957, inclusive
Finance - Paid Bills, 1927-1928, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1927-1928, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1937, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1950-1951, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1955-1956, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1964, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1968, inclusive
Financial Reports, 1969, inclusive
Finance - Tax Exempt Status, 1930-1940, inclusive
Finance - Tax Exempt Status, 1954, inclusive
Flyers, 1922, 1953, inclusive
Fragments
Fund for the Republic, 1957-1959, inclusive
Gabler Case, East Germany, 1951, inclusive
Haynes, 1927-1928, inclusive
Hertzberg, Sidney - Personal, 1957-1958, inclusive
History of Socialist Thought, 1927-1928, inclusive
International Association of Machinists, 1958-1959, inclusive
Industrial Democracy Foundation, 1924-1926, inclusive
Industrial Democracy Foundation, 1927-1928, inclusive
Institutes, 1939, inclusive
Institutes
IWW Subversion Case, 1927-1959, inclusive
Knight, Ralph Case, 1958, inclusive
Labor Age, 1927-1928, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1922, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1927-1928, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1931, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1935, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1950-1952, inclusive
Laidler, Harry, 1955-1956, inclusive
Laidler, Harry
Laidler, Harry - Biographical Material, 1935, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Campaign for Alderman, 1935
Laidler, Harry - Correspondence, 1950-1951, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Personal, 1950-1951, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Personal, 1957-1961, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Personal - Books and Articles, 1950-1951, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Personal - Meetings and Lectures, 1950-1951, inclusive
Laidler, Harry - Personal - Speaking Tours, 1939, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1932-1933, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1934, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1935-1936, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1937, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1938, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1939, inclusive
Lecture Series, 1941-1944, inclusive
Lecture Series - Form Letters, 1947-1949, inclusive
Lecture Series - Form Letters, 1950-1955, inclusive
Lecture Series - Form Letters, 1956-1957, inclusive
Lecture Series - Rand School, 1927-1928, inclusive
Legal Documents, 1927-1928, inclusive
Legal Documents, 1927-1928, inclusive
L.I.D. Advances, 1951-1956, inclusive
Lucio, Filiberto (Anthony) USCG-NMU, 1957, inclusive
Membership, 1925, inclusive
Membership, 1927-1928, inclusive
Membership, 1938, inclusive
Membership, 1945-1949, inclusive
Membership, 1950-1951, inclusive
Membership, 1952, inclusive
Membership, 1957-1961, inclusive
Membership
Membership Lists
Membership Lists - Other Organizations
Memos, 1927-1928, inclusive
Memos, 1964, inclusive
Memos
Minutes - Administrative Committee, 1956-1957, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1924-1926, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1927-1928, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1929-1930, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1931-1932, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1933-1934, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1935-1936, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1937-1938, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1939-1940, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1941-1942, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1943-1944, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1945-1946, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1947-1948, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1949-1950, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1951-1952, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1953, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1954, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1955, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1956, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1957-1958, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1959, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1960, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1961, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1962, inclusive
Minutes - Board of Directors, 1964-1970, inclusive
Minutes - Executive Committee, 1958-1970, inclusive
Minutes - Labor Committee, 1952, inclusive
Minutes - Nominations Committee, 1964, inclusive
Minutes - Reorientation Committee, 1955-1956, inclusive
Modern Capitalism in the U.S., 1927-1928, inclusive
National Office Forum, 1927-1928, inclusive
New York Teachers Strike, 1968, inclusive
Notes, 1962, inclusive
Office Managment, 1950-1951, inclusive
Office Managment, 1957-1958, inclusive
Office Managment, 1959-1960, inclusive
Office Managment, 1961, inclusive
Office Managment, 1964, inclusive
Office Managment
Officers, 1927-1928, inclusive
Officers, 1950, inclusive
Officers, 1957, inclusive
Pamphlet, 1934, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation, 1927-1928, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation, 1950-1951, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation, 1952-1955, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation - Form Letters, 1948-1949, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation - Form Letters, 1950-1955, inclusive
Pamphlet Preparation - Form Letters, 1956-1957, inclusive
Patterson, Janet Case, 1960, inclusive
Pending Cases, 1957, inclusive
People's Lobby, The, 1928, inclusive
People's Lobby, The, 1950, inclusive
Perez-Varella, Juan and Manuel Alba Case - Clippings and Press Releases, 1960-1961, inclusive
Perez-Varella, Juan and Manuel Alba Case - Correspondence and Private Bill Decision, 1960-1961, inclusive
Perez-Varella, Juan and Manuel Alba Case - Senatorial Responses, 1961, inclusive
Planning, 1921, inclusive
Planning, 1927-1928, inclusive
Plasterers' Union Local 30, 1956-1958, inclusive
Press Releases, 1924, inclusive
Press Releases, 1941, inclusive
Press Releases, 1946, inclusive
Press Releases, 1947, inclusive
Press Releases, 1949, inclusive
Press Releases, 1950-1955, inclusive
Press Releases, 1956-1959, inclusive
Press Releases, 1964, inclusive
Press Releases
Printing, 1927-1928, inclusive
Programs, 1961, inclusive
Programs, 1962, inclusive
Programs
Proposed Study - Democratic Techniques Under Our Advancing Collectivism, 1943, inclusive
Publications, 1933, inclusive
Publications, 1937, inclusive
Publications, 1940, inclusive
Publications, 1942, inclusive
Publications, 1947, inclusive
Publications, 1953-1955, inclusive
Publications, 1964, inclusive
Publications
Radio Programs, 1955, inclusive
Radio Programs, 1956-1960, inclusive
Radio Programs
Rand School, 1950-1955, inclusive
Reid, Willie Extradition Case, 1959, inclusive
Report, 1953, inclusive
Research, 1927-1928, inclusive
Research, 1942, inclusive
Reservations, 1927-1928, inclusive
Resume, 1957, inclusive
Social Planning, 1931-1940, inclusive
Social Planning
Songs, 1921-1940, inclusive
Southern Textile Survey, 1927-1928, inclusive
Speakers, 1927-1929, inclusive
Speakers, 1946, inclusive
Speakers, 1950-1951, inclusive
Speakers, 1952, inclusive
Speakers, 1953, inclusive
Speakers, 1954, inclusive
Speakers, 1957-1961, inclusive
Speakers - Coldwell, M.J., 1950-1951, inclusive
Speakers - Form Letters, 1951-1952, inclusive
Speakers - Form Letters, 1957, inclusive
Speakers - MacKenzie, Norman, 1950, inclusive
Speech Summaries, 1927-1928, inclusive
Stable Money Association, 1927-1928, inclusive
Starr, Mark - Lecture Tour, 1959-1960, inclusive
Starr, Mark - Lecture Tour, 1959-1960, inclusive
Starr, Mark - Lecture Tour, 1959-1960, inclusive
Starr, Mark and Joseph Schlossberg Luncheon, 1959, inclusive
Students, 1922, inclusive
Students, 1959-1961, inclusive
Students
Students - Activities, 1929-1930, inclusive
Students - Activities, 1948, inclusive
Students - Activities, 1950-1955, inclusive
Students - Activities, 1956-1957, inclusive
Students - Colleges, 1931, inclusive
Students - Colleges, 1940, inclusive
Students - Colleges
Students - Colleges - Requests, 1927-1928, inclusive
Students - Summer Institute, 1956-1957, inclusive
Students - Summer School, 1935-1937, inclusive
Students - Summer School, 1940-1941, inclusive
Students - Summer School
Study Commissions, 1958, inclusive
Study Commissions, 1958, inclusive
Study Commissions, 1958, inclusive
Study Commissions - Replies to Questionaires, 1958, inclusive
Study Commissions - Replies to Questionaires, 1958, inclusive
Summer Institute for Social Progress, 1957, inclusive
Supplies, Orders, Contracts, 1927-1928, inclusive
Tangredi, Michael Case, 1958-1959, inclusive
Trip, Eastern, 1927-1928, inclusive
Trip, European, 1930-1938, inclusive
Trip, European, 1955-1957, inclusive
Trip, Middle Western, 1927-1928, inclusive
Trip, Middle Western (Return), 1927-1928, inclusive
Trip, New England, 1927-1928, inclusive
Trip, Pacific, 1927-1928, inclusive
Trip, Southern, 1927-1928, inclusive
Vanguard Press, 1927-1928, inclusive
Unemployment Insurance broadside, undated
Workers Defense League, 1959, inclusive
Workers Defense League, 1964, inclusive
Series II: Addendum, 1947-1996, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This series is made up of materials, the bulk of which dates from the 1960s to the 1990s, generated by the League for Industrial Democracy. It contains articles; pamphlets; administrative, financial, and fundraising records; correspondence; research files; board of directors and executive committee minutes; membership files, files documenting their activities; and photographs. There is a significant amount of material documenting their annual conferences and institutes, including material related to their United States-wide Student-Labor Institutes. Some material relate to their solidarity campaigns with various unions on strike, including the American Federation of Teachers.
Arrangement
This series has not been arranged by an archivist.
Box 38, 1969-1971, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials from the Citizens Committee to Support General Electric (GE) Strikers including National Committee Members listings; newspaper ads, fundraising newspaper advertisement response cards, reports, budgets, and finances; correspondence, including correspondence with sponsors; post settlement reports; publicity; and other planning materials. The box also includes League for Industrial Democracy Detroit chapter correspondence; plannning materials and correspondence and a budget for the March for a Million School Children, sponsored by the Emergency City-Wide Committee for the Public Schools. There are grant proposals, planning materials, and grant rejection letters for a planned conference, entitled "Working for Democratic Change in the Americas" with the United States Youth Council. LID held another conference called "Campus Crisis, held at the Arden House. Materials on the conference include planning materials, correspondence, notes, and conference literature. There is also correspondence related to the Academic Committee of Correspodence, materials related to the Black Builders Work/Joint Apprenticeship program, planning materials on the New School for Social Research Labor Relations Luncheon Lectures in Spring 1971; and LID's "State of the Student Movement-1970" report with related correspondence.
Box 39, 1960-1979, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains fundraising appeal correspondence, general correspondence, articles and other materials related to the League for Industrial Democracy in the 1960s and 1970s. Most notably, there is material from the Looking Forward article series. The issues in the series include, "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement (Bayard Rustin), "The Failure of Urban Renewal" (Herbert J. Gans), "The Roots of the Dominican Crisis" (Theodore Draper), and "The Watts Manifesto and the McCone Report (Rustin). Michael Harrington's "Politics of Poverty pamphlet" and related correspondence are contained in this box, which also includes New York City LID Chapter Forum series materials, US delegation materials related to the 1973 Europe-America Conference; Citizens Committee for Justice for Farah Workers correspondence, pamphlets, planning materials; "The Ghetto" forum planning materials; LID reorganization materials; 69th Annual conference materials (1974); the Conference on National Economic Planning planning materials (1965-1966), the Poor People's Campaign: National Mobilization on June 19th, 1968; an annual report from 1973; the Black Power Debate forum in 1968; "Labor and International Affairs in the 70s" forum planning materials in 1972; and their work with the Frontlash Issues Workshop.
Box 40, 1960-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains pamphlets, LID's Journal, and LID News and Views. This box also contains loose meeting minutes, circulars, reports, and bulletins by the LID and other organizations.
Box 41, 1963-1978, 1989-1999, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains loose materials, including board meeting and executive committee minutes, annual reports, circulars, luncheon materials, pamphlets, financial records, and other materials. The box also contains materials from the 1990s, including materials on the Bayard Rustin Fund; materials related to the Albanian Socialdemocratic Party deputy, Gaqo Apostoli; AFL-CIO donation to LID; International Participation Project materials; The Foreign Relations Bureau of the National Committee of the Independent Student Association (NZS) materials; materials documenting activities of LID from 1989-1990; Frontlash materials; Sandor Szilagyi fellowship; Daily News fundraiser; program summaries; campaign endorsements including to Yugoslavia demonstrations in 1992 and the arrest of Chakufwa Chihana; materials on the Child Labor Coalition; Romania training program; German Marshall Fund grant; United Mine Workers of America strike; Rustin Circle project; funding inquiries; circulars; and correspondence.
Box 42, 1965-1983, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains subject files on civil disobedience, voter registration, miners, Mobilization for the Youth campaign, Metropolitan Urban Service Training (MUST), National Committee for an Effective Congress, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing, National Conference on Human Rights, National Council on Crime and Delinquency, National Conference on Citizenship, National Project on Ethnic America, Newark Community Union Project, Newark Defense Committee, Negro Poverty, negro and politics, negro education, nonviolence, Northern Student Movement, nuclear disarmament, Ohio Steering Committee for Adequate Welfare, Open Society, Organization of Organizations, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Painters Union Project, Partners in Housing, Master Pax, Committee for Public education and Religious Liberty (PEARL), Pension Funds, planned communities, Planners for Equal Opportunity, political realignment, poltics and civil rights, polls and surveys, peace, poverty, poverty in cities, preferential treatment, progressive labor movement, race relations, radical right, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Regional Council, Citizens Coalition for an Adequate Education Budget, bombings, Block Development Project, the 20th Anniversary of the March on Washington, the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, poor people campaigns in Mississippi, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. The box also includes Harry Laider obituaries and eulogy and articles mentioning LID.
Box 43, 1964-1987, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains subject files on the Southern Student Organizing Committee, spring mobilization, student politics, teamsters rank and file, Syracuse poverty program, Teachers Freedom Party, Norman Thomas, Triple Revolution, United Farm Workers, US Commission on Civil Rights, United Student Alliance, Urban School Crisis, Vienna Residents Labor Union, Voter Education Project, Watts (California) Riot, William Winpisinger, West Germany, Harvey Wheeler, the Workers Defense League, Civil Rights Bill, Community Development Agency, the Draft, DuBois clubs, Eldridge Cleaver Defense Committee, Emergency City-wide Committee for the Public Schools, the Fund for Peace, "Causes and Cures of Stagflation: A Tract for the 1980s" by Robert J. Alexander, Bermuda Conference, Jules Bernstein, Black Panther Party, Black Power, and Citizens Crusade Against Poverty. The box also has materials related to the Harrington, Rustin, Kemble speaking tour in 1964, their voter registration project, general correspondence, an unpublished draft of A Defense of Radical Liberalism by Arnold S. Kaufman, annual award meeting materials from 1965, luncheons and other speaking tour materials, public works debate, other debates and events.
Box 44, 1964-1970, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials generated by the League of Industrial Democracy (LID). It includes Freedom Budget poverty campaign correspondence; Civil Rights Institute bills and materials; LID fund appeal bulletins; Board of Directors and Executive Committee meetings from 1968-1969; 1967 Annual Conference journal, speakers, and other materials; "American Power in the 20th Century" pamphlet by Michael Harrington and related materials; Dissent subscription materials; Student Institute on the Democratic Left; "Who Speaks for the Consumer" pamphlet by Ralph Nader and related materials; School Crisis Meeting; LID and United Federation of Teachers (UFT) meetings; "Background Paper on the National Economy" for the Looking Forward series; New York City Youth Neighborhood Corps materials; LID Task Force on School Decentralization; 1969 Annual Conference journal and speakers; Public Employees Unionism conference proposals and other materials; and 1968 Annual Conference journal, speakers and other materials.
Box 45, 1965-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains files generated by the League of Industrial Democracy, including materials on the Frontlash training institute, including discussion materials, Washington trip; New York chapter minutes; "Accidental Century" insert in the New American; Dissent promotional materials; funding appeals; UC Berkeley meeting with LID; 1973-1976 annual conferences; Abraham D. Beame speech; New School urban problems lectures; Italian Student Labor Project proposal; administrative committee notes, integration lectures; clippings; youth vote conference; youth project materials, including finances, fundraising; Harry W. Laidler fellowship; land use, corporate power and public policy prospectus; Harrington v. Chafee complaint; United Federation of Teachers "Another Oceanhill-Brownsville?" article; "Urban School Crisis pamphlet draft; pamphlet promotional materials; UAW strike; magazines; Push Comes to Shove, by Steven Kelman materials; materials on Victor Alba and John Roche; and New York City crisis pamphlet materials.
Box 46, 1964-1972, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials generated by LID, it includes materials on the conference on the Campus Crisis, including proposals, the continuation committee and steering committee materials; 1969, 1972 annual conference; LID's publication committee; Academic Committee of Correspondence; Lane Kirkland pamphlet and speech; discount book service; Student-Labor Institute Fund Appeal materials; University of Virginia Institute on Labor publicity, lectures, and press releases; publications committee materials; Ben Seligman and Aaron Levenstein materials on automation; and Steve Max reports; the Lenaghan report on on the Inter-American Organizing Conference; Dissent Conference; Brotherhood-In-Action conference; League of Industrial Democracy Manifesto; Congress of Racial Equality materials; Johnson-Humphrey-Kennedy Campaign Committee materials; Christman Youth Conference, "Issues for the Seventies: A Conference for Democratic Youth" materials; board meeting documentation; and membership drive materials.
Box 47, 1962-1969, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials generated by the LID, including a new Left bibliography; LID work with United Federation of Teachers, including materials on the 1968 teachers strike; Labor Journalism Intern Project; Southern Student Organizing Committee; Upton Sinclair fundraising efforts; Institute on the Democratic Left materials; Urban Training Center with the Harlem Neighborhood Association; New Politics accusation of LID of receiving funds from the CIA; Youth Committee Against Poverty materials; ; University of Virginia Institute on Labor fundraising, student applications; Housing for the Poor project; "Teacher Power" pamphlet; publications committee correspondence; "Urban School Crisis" pamphlet publication materials; 1966 annual conference; finance committee fundraising activities; board and executive committee notes and minutes; LID's Leadership Training Institute planning and publicity materials; Civil Rights Institute publicity and report; and an Arthur McDowell memo accusing the LID to providing cover to a Communist front group (Students for a Democratic Society) and ensuing controversy.
Box 48, 1947-1974, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains material generated by LID, including correspondence to gain support to right a protest letter against Staughton Lynd; post office permits; material on Irving Howe's paper, "On the Nature of Communism and Relations with Communists" from the Looking Forward series; 1967 annual conference; Attitudes Toward Communism, Anti-Communism, Anti-anti-Communism Forum; Civil Rights Training Institute faculty correspondence, curriculum; "Automation and the Future Society" by Ben Seligman drafts; Table of Contents for Poverty and Human Resources Abstracts by Joyce Kornbluh and Alan Haber; materials on potential merger of Dissent and LID; national high school debate on nuclear arms control; board of directors and executive committee notes and minutes; 1972-1974 annual conferences planning materials; March for a Million School Children; New Politics Conference; Student-Labor Institute program fundraising appeal; Recruitment and Training Program seminar series; Conference on Youth and Democratic Values; Congress of Racial Equality; International Affairs Conference packet; Tom Milstein generated materials; and their More Effective Schools campaign.
Box 49, 1970-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains 1972, 1974 annual conference planning materials; board of directors and executive committee notes and minutes; Farah Manufacturing Company Strike solidarity and boycott materials; Oneita Knitting Mills strike solidarity materials; "Black Builders" job program pamphlet; Meany award sponsors; Student Institute on the Trade Union (in West Virginia) movement planning materials; youth recruitment; CUNY for Hugh Carey campaign; Gary Student-Labor Institute planning materials; Topeka Student-Labor Institute planning materials; Boston Student-Labor Institute; South Carolina Student-Labor Institute; Youth Coalition; Osh-Kosh Student Labor Institute; Frontlash high school Voter Registration campaign planning materials; Youth Vote Project Art Poster Contest; and 1974 Frontlash conference.
Box 50, 1960s-1987, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Neighborhood Youth Corps. programs; Frontlash fundraising materials, Frontlash 1975 conference; Citizens Committee youth activities; Farah strike support; 1976 annual conference planning materials; Board of Directors and Executive committee minutes and other notes; League of Industrial Democracy History file; Clippings file on Black Unemployment; New Left articles; "Will Labor come in from the Cold War" article by David Woberg; Eastern European Democracy program; Ed Koch Meeting notes; Heritage Foundation correspondence; Social Democrats materials; Tamiment Library bulletins; Bayard Rustin birthday dinner; funder correspondence; and collective bargaining agreements.
Box 51, 1967-1992, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains a proposal to the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and Smith-Richardson on the study of communist systems; board and executive meeting minutes and notes; international affairs travel grants; bequests to the League of Industrial Democracy; lists; Ansonia Club materials; Theodore Roberts claim against LID; Looking Forward Issues 2, 4-11, 16-18; Correspondence files A-Z (missing L); campaign issues clippings; Henry M. Jackson presidential campaign materials and New York primary; Labor for Carey Committee materials; Washington DC forum series notices; opposition campaign clippings; Lincoln Square Community Council issues and action; support materials and fundraising for Bella Abzug, Samets cocktail party planning; correspondence with Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe;
Box 52, 1971-1992, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box includes materials including "Study on the Relationship between Social Democratic Political Parties and ICFTU [International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]-Affiliated Trade Unions: The Impact on Policy" Middle East, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, South Pacific, and Europe reports; campaign publications and research papers; and LID member and contributor card files (organized alphabetically and by state).
Membership and Contributor Cards, 1949-1993, inclusive
Box 55, 1951-1997, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials generated by the League for Industrial Democracy, including "Labor in the 90's" packet; International Labor Organization materials and correspondence; Malawi protest in response to the arrest of Frederick Chiluba; Coca Cola boycott; United Nations materials; German Marshall Fund correspondence; general correspondence files; Concerned Citizens of the Delaware Valley circular; Child Labor Coalition conference materials; "Women and Work" draft; Leadership Seminar correspondence; fundraising appeals and contributions; member lists; Jewish Labor Committee background materials, correspondence with the Attorney General's office; The Federationist subscriptions and other materials; LID Training Conference in May 1967 in New York City materials; "The Economics of Equality" preparation and promotional materials; 1962-1963 conference materials; poverty program; fundraising appeals, including a letter from Bayard Rustin; LID Institute for Civil Rights Activists; Northern Student Movement-Harlem Action Group Institute; South Jamaica Congress of Racial Equality Institute; League for Industrial Democracy-Workers Defense League Joint Finances; Bayard Rustin writings; Harrington Reception planning materials; and Harry W. Laidler 80th Birthday and 1964 conference materials.
Box 55, 1962-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials generated by LID, including 1962, 1965 annual conference; Bayard Rustin meeting and speaking materials; LID National Program materials; "Racism in Southern Labor Relations" study and correspondence; Urban Democracy committee materials; check requisitions; Labor Summer Schools correspondence; Frontlash Training Institute participant profiles; proposals and brochures; Washington Student Labor Institute student applications; Goddard Labor Institute student applications and correspondence; youth groups fliers and other materials; sample letters; thank you letters; Student-Labor Institute Program; labor union fundraising; conference time schedules; conference costs and housing arrangements; Leadership Training Institute in Front Royale, Virginia; Kentucky Youth-Labor Institute; and San Francisco Youth-Labor Institute; Gary, Indiana Youth-Labor Institute; Philadelphia Youth-Labor Institute; Columbus, and Ohio Youth-Labor Institute.
Box 57, 1954-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
Little Rock Youth-Labor Institute; Florida Institute; West Virginia Training Institute; Los Angeles Youth-Labor Institute; Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds correspondence; Student-Labor Institute evaluations; mailings to Institute participants; Student Labor Institute Committee reports; press releases; San Francisco Frontlash materials; fundraising letters and sources; press coverage; six folders of loose materials including meeting minutes, Student League for Industrial Democracy newsletters, circulars, news bulletins, and other materials; pamphlets; "Youth and Democratic Change in the Americas" pamphlet and drafts; Youth Project on Democratic Change materials, correspondence, AFL-CIO mailings, and California Office/David Jessup records.
Box 58, 1966-1975, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials on the Youth Project on Democratic Change survey materials, mailings, New York and Vermont conference materials, and expenses; Academic Committee of Correspondence materials; United Federation of Teachers 1968 strike literature, statement, and correspondence; Task Force on School Decentralization materials; meeting minutes; fund appeals; New School lecture series promotional materials; Housing for the Poor conference and project; LID institute on "The Trade Union Movement and the New South" at the University of Virginia follow-up materials; Youth Committee/Citizens' Committee to Support the G.E. Workers publicity; Poor People's campaign; 1975 annual conference tickets, journal, housing, speeches; and LID Booklet on Soviet Dissident Writings planning materials.
Box 59, 1967-1975, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials from the 1972, 1975 annual conference; board and executive committee meeting minutes; LID Booklet on Soviet Dissident Writings proposal; Academic Committee of Correspondence materials; WEVD program "Can Anyone Run a City?" planning materials; Farah Workers contact list and correspondence; Student Campaign in Support of Open Enrollment with Maintenance of Standards at the City University proposal and other materials; Labor-Social issues Luncheon planning materials; Leon Keyserling speech; Christmas Youth Conference; Educational Seminars for Prospective Local School Board Candidates; AFL-CIO Intern program; New Jersey Student Labor Committee evaluations and other materials; Youth Vote Project; luncheons for the South Vietnamese, New School for trade unionists, labor relations, group legal services; Black Builders program; Board of Education hearings; publications committee; and the Herbert Hill and Donald Slaiman debate.
Box 60, 1961-1971, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains board of directors and executive committee meeting minutes; Herbert Hill New School speech; "Labor Breakthrough in the Southern Classroom: University of Virginia" pamphlet; Working for Democratic Change in the Americas program; 1968-1969 annual conference materials; Washington DC chapter correspondence; Inter-American Youth Conference publications; Young People's Socialist League materials; Youth Project on Democratic Change materials; LID's 1963 national program; university workshops; "The State of the Student Movement-1970" report; Youth Committee/Citizens' Committee to Support the G.E. Workers correspondence; "Democratic Change" newsletters; report on the "Consultation on Youth and Democratic Change;" and the "Youth and the New York State Elections" project.
Box 61, 1968-1976, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials from New Jersey, Tennessee Democratic Change conferences; Youth Committee/Citizens' Committee to Support the G.E. Workers clippings; Latin America file; Working for Democratic Change in the Americas Conference planning materials; Latin America pamphlet draft materials; Board and Executive Committee meeting minutes; 1970-1971 annual conference materials; Apprenticeship program and course materials; Workmen's Circle and Circle Lodge lecture series; "A Study Program for the Elderly and Friends of the Elderly: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Help Make Democracy Work for Old People" packet by Hope Sabin Bagger; Voter registration project from the 1976 election; and the Europe-America Conference materials.
Box 62, 1963-1984, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains three reports, "Humanizing the Research Interview: A Posthumous Analysis of LeRoy Bowman's Approach to the Interview Process" by Barbara Bowman, Garda Bowman, and Ruth Resch, "Conference on the Campus Crisis," and "Consultation on Youth and Democratic Change;" Norman Thomas by Robert J. Alexander manuscript; "Harry W. Laidler and the Intercollegiate Socialist Society" by Carmela Ascolese Karnoutsos dissertation; California, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Amherst Student Labor Institutes; Democratic Change newsletters from 1970-1975; Norman Thomas 80th Birthday Committee; 1966 annual conference materials; discussion and debate in regards to the Thomas Brooks pamphlet, "To Build a New World;" Organizing the Poor: The Alinsky model vs. the New Careers model debate between Jay Schulman and Frank Reissman; Dissent discussion group materials; Shanker Forum; "The Problem of the New Left" by Tom Kahn from the Looking Forward series; Conference on Economic planning; board of directors and executive committee meeting minutes; Student Labor conference; "The Second Southern Revolution" by Vera Rony; Pat Sexton pamphlet on schools; Ad-Hoc Committee to Defend the Right to Teach; and G.E. Strikers literature.
Box 63, 1967-1996, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains correspondence on the United Federation of Teachers 1968 strike and Freedom to Teach Act; board of directors and executive committee meeting minutes; "Automation and Future Society" pamphlet by Seligman; Trade Unionists Luncheons; photographs; expenses from Student Labor Institutes; materials from the Eastern European Youth Exchange Study tour; European Union Youth Exchange Phase II, German Marshall Fund expenses; materials on Romania and the Student League from the Politechnical Institute of Bucharest and Affiliates; American Federation of Teachers promotional materials; "Romanian Campaign and Election Monitoring Training and Pre-Election Assessment Delegation" report; board and executive committee minutes; Youth Democracy Conference; and administrative, financial and membership files from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Box 64, 1989-1992, inclusive
Scope and Content Note
This box contains materials on the Eastern European Youth Exchange program proposals, agendas, finances; Student League of Romania trainings and team files; Education for Democracy project of the american Federation of Teachers, Educational Excellence Network, and Freedom House; photographs; Romania campaign; German Marshall Fund grant to the League for Industrial Democracy for Romania; Lane Kirkland trip to Poland; LID Young Socialist Democrats conferences, contributors; Eastern Europe Trip report and related files, photos, speakers, and conferences; and Romanian Election Monitoring.
Box 65, undated
Scope and Content Note
Oversize clippings and cuttings on unemployment.
Series III: Photographs, 1950s-1960s
Scope and Content Note
This series contains mostly black-and-white photographs of individuals and events, from the 1950s-1970s. This series also contains photographs from a disassembled scrapbook and negatives. There are also autographed photographs and graphic portraits which appear to be collected by Louise Adams Grant Floyd. These photographs depict Harriet Stanton Blatch, George W. Coleman, Alexander Devine, J.T. "Red" Doran, Jim Lrkin, James Johnson, S.K. Ratcliffe, Albert Rhys Williams, H.G. Wells, Jesse Lynch Williams, Art Young, and Charles Zueblin.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically, then by type of material.
