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Series III: Defense Activities, 1917-1927, inclusive

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, handbills, leaflets, telegrams, and posters having to do with Flynn's involvement in the Workers Defense Fund, Garland Fund, International Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union form the larger part of this series. Materials from the Sacco and Vanzetti case are also included, as well as letters and telegrams from the 1926 testimonial dinner in her honor.

Misc. correspondence to EGF--Workers Defense
Reel 2, 1917-1927

Box: 1, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letters from Wm. Z. Foster
Reel 2, 1919, 1922

Box: 1, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Der Kommunist, June 1920
Reel 2, 1920

Box: 1, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notes on Fascism
Reel 2, [1920]

Box: 1, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Notebook/review of TV Powderly's 30 Years of Labor
Reel 2, 1924

Box: 1, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills, etc.
Reel 2, 1924

Box: 1, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings, broadsides, Socialist Party
Reel 2, 1907-1922

Box: 1, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Page from The Labor Herald, July 1922
Reel 2, 1922

Box: 1, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Palmer Raids, Oakland, Ca
Reel 2, 1920-1922

Box: 1, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Defense Council pamphlet
Reel 2, 1922

Box: 1, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Political Persecution Today, 2 copies, International Labor Defense C'tee
Reel 2, 1925

Box: 1, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

writings--"Radical Tales"
Reel 3, 1927

Box: 1, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings on Fascism
Reel 3, 1920-1928

Box: 1, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Programs from EGF speaking engagements
Reel 3, 1922-1924

Box: 1, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

NJ textile strike pamphlet
Reel 3, 1926

Box: 1, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Passaic textile, poor condition
Reel 3, 1926

Box: 1, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Passaic, misc
Reel 3, 1926

Box: 1, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scrapbook, souveniers from 20 yr. testimonial dinner, Sacco & Vanzetti letter, telegrams. 2/14/26
Reel 3, 1926

Box: 1, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

2 programs from 20 yr. testimonial dinner
Reel 3, 1926

Box: 1, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

5 postcards advertising Flynn speaking engagements
Reel 3, [1910, 1924], undated

Box: 1, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Speaking itinerary, clippings, notes--ILD
Reel 3, 1925-1926

Box: 1, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ILD correspondence to EGF, pamphlets
Reel 3, 1924-1936

Box: 1, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pamphlet--Spies in Steel, by Frank L. Palmer
Reel 3, 1928

Box: 1, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Labor Defender, May 1928
Reel 3, 1928

Box: 1, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Pamphlet--Eight Prisoners in the Kingston Cells, by Canadian Labor Defense League
Reel 3, 1932

Box: 1, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Clippings--Labor Defender
Reel 3, 1937

Box: 1, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Letter to EGF from John Haynes Holmes re Sacco & Vanzetti Defense
Reel 3, 1928

Box: 1, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Miscellaneous material on Sacco & Vanzetti--clippings, notes, defense
Reel 3, 1920-1959

Box: 1, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Sacco-Vanzetti clippings
Reel 3, 1920-1929

Box: 1, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

ILD clippings
Reel 3, [1920]-1939

Box: 1, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Misc Ms. notes
Reel 3, [1917]-1939

Box: 1, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

EGF on Sacco & Vanzetti, notes & MS
Reel 3, [1920]-1941

Box: 1, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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