Series V: EGF's "Second Life", 1937-1952, inclusive
Scope and Contents
Flynn's activities form the largest series of her personal papers and are broken down into four subseries: A. ACLU Case, 1938-1940, Documents and clippings; B. Fred Flynn, 1910-1940, Papers and Correspondence; C. Tresca's Death, 1943, Mostly Clippings; D. CPUSA Activities, Scrapbooks, itineraries, drafts of speeches, notes and correspondence from "Life of the Party" (Flynn's Daily Worker column, notes from classes in Labor History taught at the Workers School, invitations and clippings relating to CP functions. This subseries also includes: Election campaigns on the Party ticket: Representative at Large, 1942, Congress, 1954, Manhattan City Council, 1957; and Trips to Europe: France, 1945, France and England, 1950.
General
Biographical, Flynn speaking itinerary for ILD
Reel 3, 1936-1937, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
3 copies of Equal Justice, Journal of ILD
Reel 3, 1939-1940, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of articles and speeches
Reel 4, 1936-1937, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Certificate of literacy issued to EGF, SUNY
Reel 4, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS--Recollections of Frame-Ups" for Masses & Mainstream. Fragile
Reel 4, [1927, 1937]
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspaper, handbills, etc.
Reel 4, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook of poetry and autobiographical notes, mostly poetry
Reel 4, 1938-1939, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Article in NM on coal mines
Reel 4, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
programs for testimonial dinners EGF participated in
Reel 4, 1936-1947, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
DW clippings, autobiographical or about family members
Reel 4, 1930-1969, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clipping, NY Times ad, protesting HR 2122 intro by J. Parnell Thomas, March
Reel 4, 1946
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, DW on Lincoln Brigade, EGF addresses large group as CP member
Reel 4, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Programs from mass protests
Reel 4, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speaking itinerary ILD, some dated, some undated
Reel 4, 1936-1940
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry, drafts, notes, clippings
Reel 4, 1938-1945
Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Drafts for recruiting pamphlets CPUSA
Reel 4, 1930-1940
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
I have no regrets--from Women Today
Reel 4, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspaper, handbills etc
Reel 4, 1938
Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Text of radio speech, May Day, Pittsburgh
Reel 4, 1938
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Outlines for classes on labor history taught at Workers' School NYC
Reel 4, 1938-1939
Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Course notes from the Workers School
Reel 4, 1938
Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Women in American Socialist Struggles, data & MS copies
Reel 4, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Invitation for EGF to speak at Labor Day celebrations
Reel 4, 1938-1939
Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement re classes taught at Nat'l Training School
Reel 4, 1938-1939
Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Course notes, American Labor History
Reel 4, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lecture notes, American Labor History
Reel 4, 1938-1939
Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Class notes, American Labor History, Workers School, Nat'l Training School
Reel 5, 1938-1939
Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Outlines for classes on American Labor History, Workers School
Reel 5, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 26A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Copies of protest letters from incident at Flynn speech, Adena Ohio, Oct 1938
Reel 5, 1938
Box: 2, Folder: 26B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Letter, Margaret De Silver re Carlo Tresca, Oct 1939
Reel 5, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Course Outline, the Workers School. IWW and its forerunners
Reel 5, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Attacks on Labor and labor's rights ILD??, lists of prisoners, other cases
Reel 5, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills, etc
Reel 5, 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills, etc
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Personal correspondence cards
Reel 5, 1931-1940
Box: 2, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Visitor Button (not microfilmed), 1939
Box: 2, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biographical file, undated
Box: 5, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries A: ACLU Case, 1938-1940, inclusive
ACLU pamphlets
Reel 5, 1924-1925, 1937
Box: 2, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Report on the Dies committee, ACLU (copy)
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Defense committee for Civil Rights for Communists
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU case, Legal correspondence & copies (Feb-March, 1940)
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pamphlets and other printed materials from ACLU case
Reel 5, undated
Box: 2, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU case, EGF reply to charges at Board mtg, 3 copies, March 4, 1940
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Reprints of 2 articles--New Masses 3/19/40 and DW 3/17/40, protesting ACLU ouster
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conference on civil rights, April 10, 1940
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence protesting ouster of EGF from ACLU, response to article in
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 41-42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU, correspondence Corliss LaMont/EGF, May 1940
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence and copies, ACLU case, Rev. J.H. Holmes, R. Baldwin,
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Minutes of extraordinary meeting, May 7, 1940, ACLU
Reel 5, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU, EGF's notes. Feb-May
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU, other correspondence to EGF
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU, press releases, minutes, bulletins to membership
Reel 6, 1939-1940
Box: 2, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence and working copy of summary of meeting, 5/7/40
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communists and Civil Liberties Survey Graphic, May
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU meeting summary, May 7, 1940
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press releases from EGF re ACLU, May 1940
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU, EGF copies and correspondence with Board, May 1939-June 1940
Reel 6, 1939-1940
Box: 2, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bylaws and Board of Directors, ACLU
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
EGF correspondence, ACLU case, returns from national Committee
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS--critical of ACLU, found among papers, and report on prosecutions
Reel 6, [1940]
Box: 2, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
ACLU carbon of proposed statement by Board
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, ACLU
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, ACLU, Flynn case
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 2, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries B: Fred Flynn, 1910-40
Fred Flynn, school composition
Reel 6, 1920-1929, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fred Flynn, papers, mementos
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence on death of son, Fred
Reel 6, 1940
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry after Fred's death
Reel 6, [1940]
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fred Flynn, mementos
Reel 6, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries C: Tresca's Death, 1943
Clippings, death of Tresca
Reel 6, 1943
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings, Tresca murder, The Call, New Leader, bad condition, January 1943
Reel 6, 1943
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings on Tresca, fragile, deteriorated and unprocessed
Reel 6, 1943-1945
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pamphlets, clippings on Tresca, Tresca Memorial Committee
Reel 7, [1945]
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D: CPUSA Activities
Clippings, "They have just begun to fight" Monongahela railroad strike, historical contracts
Reel 7, 1940
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook materials
Reel 7, 1940-1949
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties, June-July
Reel 7, 1940
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement of Committee on Election Rights, National Federation for Constitutional Liberties
Reel 7, 1940
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clipping re Dill Pickle Club, founded by Jack Jones
Reel 7, [1940-1949]
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills, etc
Reel 7, 1941
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Letter to EGF from Helen Keller
Reel 7, 1942
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Honorable withdrawal from American Newspaper Guild
Reel 7, 1942
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills
Reel 7, 1943
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS, a history of the IWW
Reel 7, 1943
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Obituary, Art Young, Dec 31, 1943
Reel 7, 1943
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CP history, consitutions of the CPU, marked for change by EGF
Reel 7, 1944-1945
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Vandenburg Speech, notes on the NY Times article by EGF
Reel 7, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes on destruction of Fascism
Reel 7, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Proof of legal advertisement, notice of dissolution of the Defense Committeefor Civil Rights of Communists, January 10, 1944
Reel 7, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills etc
Reel 7, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pages from diary, "Notes on People"
Reel 7, 1944
Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, misc
Reel 7, 1945
Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills etc
Reel 7, 1945
Box: 3, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Autobiographical notes for period, 1919-46
Reel 7, 1946
Box: 3, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes on Homestead Strike and clipping by R. Baldwin
Reel 7, [1946]
Box: 3, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills etc
Reel 7, 1946
Box: 3, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biographical sketch--Press release? 12/10/46
Reel 7, 1946
Box: 3, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS on Mother Bloor, pamphlet on Bloor
Reel 7, 1937-1947
Box: 3, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS reviewing CPUS history
Reel 7, 1940-1949, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Texts of radio speeches, on behalf of CPUSA candidates
Reel 7, 1944-1950
Box: 3, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Excerpts from books or articles mentioning EGF and IWW
Reel 7, 1940-1959
Box: 3, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Autobiographical notes on trips
Reel 7, 1940-1959
Box: 3, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebook of autobiographical events, diary?
Reel 7, 1937-1948
Box: 3, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
MS--A Trade Unionist Should be a Communist
Reel 7, undated
Box: 3, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes on Public Speaking. Pamphlets on defense activities, notes
Reel 8, 1942-1949
Box: 3, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, Part I
Reel 8, 1944-1945
Box: 3, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, Part II
Reel 8, 1946-1947
Box: 3, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
DW Clippings, mostly historical
Reel 8, 1946, 1958
Box: 3, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pamphlets--Meet the Communists, Women's Place
Reel 8, 1946, 1947
Box: 3, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
List of articles for 1947, handwritten
Reel 8, 1947
Box: 3, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fragments of the Miami News, 2/17/48
Reel 8, 1948
Box: 3, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Program and Text for speech, CPUSA 14th Nat'l Convention
Reel 8, 1948
Box: 3, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Text of Program for CPUSA 14th Nat'l Convention, 8/2/48
Reel 8, 1948
Box: 3, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills etc
Reel 8, 1948
Box: 3, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Personal account/date book, backdated 1925-27
Reel 8, 1948-1957
Box: 3, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills, etc
Reel 8, 1949
Box: 3, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement opposing confirmation of Tom Clark as Associate Justice
Reel 8, 1949
Box: 3, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Outline for autobiography
Reel 8, 1940-1949
Box: 3, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Statement by EGF against Supreme Court appointment
Reel 8, 1949
Box: 3, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D-1: Election Campaigns on the Party Ticket
Election campaign, EGF for Representative-at Large
Reel 8, 1942
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
EGF for Congress, clippings, invitation
Reel 8, 1942
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook material--Bronx campaign
Reel 8, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Publicity campaign for City Council
Reel 8, 1957
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speeces, campaign for City Council
Reel 9, 1957
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings used in campaign for City Council
Reel 9, 1957
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scrapbook--newspapers, handbills
Reel 9, 1942
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radio script--women in the elections, press release and pamphlet
Reel 9, 1942-1944
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subseries D-2: Trips to France
EGF's notes while attending International des Femmes in Frances, Nov-Jan
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Souvenirs from France
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Congres International des Femmes, Paris, scrapbook material, 11/26/45
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes from International Women's Conference, Paris
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International Women's Conference, December 1945
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
DW clippings on trips to France
Reel 9, 1945, 1949
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Souvenirs from trips to England, mostly CP, pamphlets and publications
Reel 9, 1945-1950
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clippings from newspapers mentioning Flynn's visit
Reel 9, 1949
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International Congress of Women
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Souvenirs from trip to France, 1949
Reel 9, 1949
Box: 4, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Women's Conference, France
Reel 9, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Report on the problems & status of women in England, France
Reel 10, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Souvenir of Women's Conference, Paris. Report on the participation of women in the struggle against Fascism
Reel 10, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draft of speech to French Communists
Reel 10, 1945
Box: 4, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Documents adopted by the 3d session of the Councl, Women's International Democratic Federation
Reel 10, 1951
Box: 4, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lists of EGF articles, women in Paris and other subjects
Reel 10, 1945-1950
Box: 4, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
