Israel and Sadie Amter Autobiographical Typescript

The collection contains an autobiographical typescript of some 250 pages, containing a biographical sketch of Israel and his wife Sadie, describing their respective youths, accounts of their labor and Communist activities, expositions of their ideology, and poems by Sadie and Israel. While originally written jointly by Israel and Sadie Amter, the typescript in the Library's possession was extensively re-written by Sadie Van Veen Amter, circa 1965, according to her note on the table of contents pages.

Table of Contents: Foreword--Introduction--Who we are: early recollections--How we came to the labor movement--Where we stand--Economic crises, why?-- New York, 1921--Ohio, 1925--"Work or wages," 1930--Jail--We are free agau--Cumberland, 1931-- The veterans march on Washington--The second hunger march--Convention of the unemployed--Work or relief--Uniting the unemployed--Trade union struggles--The organization of the unorganized--The communists and the CIO--Communism and union democracy--Schenectady, 1931--How Mooney and Billings were freed--Problems of the Negro people: concern of all the people--Struggle for Negro rights--Scottsboro--Cheltenham--Harlem: March, 1933--We are all descendants of immigrants--Frame-up and defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--Workers' defense--Puerto Rico could be our best friend--Youth: the worst sufferers--May Day: International workers day-- Student days in Leipzig--World War I--We organize the Communist Party--The Russian Revolution shook and still shakes the world--Lenin and Stalin--World War II--The Spanish waar--Death opf Roosevelt: Truman at the helm--Democracy in the U.S.--Is the U.S. imperialist?--The Chinese people liberate themselves--The U.S. prepares war on the Soviet Union--Some questions--The workers need international organization-- Social-democracy: aid of imperialism--Communists and a peoples' party--Progressive capitalism?--What conclusions we can draw--Twenty million communists--Who are the communists?