Series III: Political Activities
Scope and Content Note
This series (arranged alphabetically, bulk 1960-) contains Communist Party internal documents primarily re: the "Negro Question" (1930s-1980s), notes taken at several 1983 meetings of the Party's Political Bureau, Central Committee, and African-American Commission, a notebook from a 1961 trip to the USSR, materials related to a course taught at the Jefferson School of Social Science, a file of Democratic Party of California documents re the 1932 mobilization of African American voters (Pittman was an advocate of realigning the African American vote from its traditional Republican Party orientation), and clippings and ephemera relating to various events and topics.
ABU Membership List [Bay Area Black University students??], undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
African Liberation Struggles Today (Course Outline) - Jefferson School of Social Science, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The African Peoples and their Struggle for Liberation (Course Evaluation) - Jefferson School of Social Science, 1954, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American - European March, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Asian - African Liberation Struggles (Winter Term Syllabus) - Jefferson School of Social Science, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
China, Trip to - Journal, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
CIO - Texas, 1952, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Clipping File - Scheme of Classification, 1972, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party Internal Documents (Negro Question), 1930s-1960s, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party Internal Documents, 1979-1983, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party Meeting Notes (Central Committee, Political Bureau, African-American Commission), 1983, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party - Twenty-first National Convention, 1975, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union - Twenty-fifth Congress, 1974, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Daily World- Job Applications , 1968, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Democratic Party of California - Internal Documents re: Mobilization of Negroes, ca.1932, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hall, Gus, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hinds, Lennox - Speech by (International Conference of Solidarity with the Struggle of African and Arab Peoples against Imperialism and Reaction), 1978, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Hymn to the Rising Sun - A Short Play about an African-American Soldier," by Paul Green, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International Commission of Inquiry into US Crimes in Indochina, 1971, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International Contacts List, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Jackson, Maurice - Afro-American Peoples Struggles (Seminar - Havana, Cuba), 1981, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Leon, Gilbert (First Lieutenant) vs. United States (Brief Amicus Curiae) - Korean War, 1950, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Maran, Rene M. - Interview with, 1946, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
May Day: Rallies and Speech, 1953, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
McCarran Act Protests Reported in Press, ca.1962, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Murdock, Steve - Death of, 1976, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Lawyer's Conference, 1981, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Question - Jefferson School Typescripts, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nationalities Question - Worldwide, 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Negro Candidates for Election on New Party Ticket, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Negro Press Circulation Figures, 1943, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nikolai Miklukho-Maclay: Fighter Against Racism - By Y.Y. Roginsky, 1971, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
North Korea, Trip To, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Philip Alexander Bell and the San Francisco Elevator,By John H. Telfer (San Francisco Negro and Cultural Society, California History Series, Monograph # 9) , 1966, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pittman, John and Margarit - List of Articles Approved for The Daily Workerand People's World, 1959-1962, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pittman, John - Work Record of (1974-1979), undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pittman's Books - Prague to New York, 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Polan, Lou: Statement Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Prague / World Marxist Review- Activities, 1974, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Racism and Racial Discrimination, World Conference for Education of, 1978, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Racism - World Marxist Review- Symposium, 1976, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Railroad Workers Link, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Real Estate Career, 1954-1958, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Record of Work Done - Time Copy, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Republican Convention - By Richard Walker, 1952, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rubin, Daniel - "On the Life of Henry Winston, National Chairman, C.P.U.S.A.", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
San Francisco Workers School, 1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Soviet Discussion - Letter to the Editor ( People's World), undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Soviet Press Agency Translations, 1970-1978, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Soviet Union, Trip to - Notebook / Journal, 1961, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Speaking Engagements, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Spokesman :Articles of Co-Partnership, etc. , 1931 , 1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
United Nations Correspondents Association (Application for Membership), 1953, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
United Nations Founding Conference - San Francisco, 1945, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Western Negro Statesman, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
