Series V: Subject Files, 1914-1962, inclusive

This series contains a wide variety of materials touching on Hendley's professional, political and cultural interests. Examples include federal aid to education, the Spanish Civil War, anti-communism and red-baiting, civil rights and the segregation of schools, separation of church and state, reading retardation and education during wartime. Hendley's involvement in Socialism and in the Communist Party is reflected, including his association with The Worker. Organizations such as the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Labor Party (ALP) and the National Education Association (NEA) are represented, along with smaller teacher associations and teacher unions outside the New York area. Files are included on individuals such as Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Morris Schappes and the Rosenbergs. There are many newpaper clippings, collected over thirty years, that document educational, political and labor issues. The series contains examples of many serials as well as pamphlets and other publications, including several of particular interest -- The Flivver King by Upton Sinclair, On Scabs by Jack London, a small book of anti-Nazi humor, and The Challenger, a comic with liberal superheroes published by the Interfaith Committee of the Protestant Digest in the mid-1940s.