Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman Research Files on African Americans and Communism
Call Number
TAM.218
Dates
1919-2017, inclusive
; 1919-1939, bulk
Creator
Solomon, Mark I. (Role: Donor)
Extent
4.75 Linear Feet in 4 record cartons, 1 manuscript box and 1 half manuscript box.
Language of Materials
Materials written in English.
Abstract
The collection is comprised of research materials regarding African Americans and communism accumulated by two scholars: Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman. It contains clippings, articles, printed ephemera, internal documents, published documents (principally from radical organizations), research notes, and government surveillance documents.
Biographical Note
Mark Solomon is the author of The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936(1988). He taught U.S. history at Simmons College from 1967 to 1997. The Robert Kaufman created/accumulated his portion of this collection during research at the University of California, Berkeley on his (never completed) doctoral thesis on African American labor and communism.
Arrangement
The files are grouped into two series: I, Mark Solomon Research Files; II, Robert Kaufman Research Files. Folders in original donation are arranged alphabetically. Materials from the 2019 accretion were added into Series I boxes five and six and have not been arranged by an archivist. The materials in the 2019 accretion are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of research materials regarding African Americans and communism accumulated by two scholars: Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman. In 1998, Solomon wrote The Cry Was Unity: Communists and African Americans, 1917-1936 and his research files for this book are included in this collection. Research files from Robert Kaufman's dissertation are also included in this collection. Materials include clippings, printed ephemera, internal and published documents, principally from radical organizations, research notes, and some government documents (surveillance of radicals).
Additionally, there are well-documented notes and correspondence between Mark Solomon and committee members of the Organization of American Historians such as Nell Painter.
Subjects
Organizations
Genres
People
Donors
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date; Mark Solomon and Robert Kaufman Research Files on African Americans and Communism; TAM 218; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Mark Solomon in 2000; an additional accession was donated by Mark Solomon in 2018. The accession numbers associated with these gifts are 2000.008 and 2019.042.
About this Guide
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Language: Finding aid written in English
Processing Information
Decisions regarding arrangement, description, and physical interventions for this collection prior to 2019 have not yet been recorded. In 2019, materials were placed in new acid-free boxes. Original folder titles were maintained when given, and loose materials were assigned titles by the archivist. Materials are in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Revisions to this Guide
March 2019:
Updated and edited by Jasmine Sykes-Kunk for compliance with DACS and ACM Required Elements for Archival Description and to include materials integrated from accession number 2019.042.
Edition of this Guide
This version was derived from Solomon-kaufman Guide.doc
Repository
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Series I. Mark Solomon Research Files
African Blood Brotherhood, undated, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
African-American Press - notes & clippings, undated, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
African-American Press - notes & clippings, undated, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Allen, James S. - Negro Liberation, 1933-1938, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American Negro Labor Committee, 1924-1930s, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anti-lynch movement and activities, 1933-1938, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles, undated, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles, 1966-1996, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biographies-Bibliographies, undated , 1990, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black nationalism (& CP), 1931-1934, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black response to Communism, 1921-1973, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black organizations, 1934-1938, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Blacks and Soviet Russia, 1922-1988, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bonus March veterans, 1932, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Business ideologies (co-ops), 1931-1966, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Briggs correspondence - Intelligence File, 1958-1961, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chicago - unemployment and eviction, 1931-1944, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Comintern, 1920s-1993, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party, 1929-1931, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party, 1931-1933, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party, 1933-1936, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party and black organizations, 1936, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party - gestation, 1918-1974, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party - South, 1932-1967, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conference: Rosenwal conference on the economic situation of the Negro, 1933, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, 1974-1976, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Crusader notes, summaries of 1919/1920s edition, undated, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Culture, 1929-1991, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Draper Papers - Emory University, 1958, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Economic conditions, 1929-1934, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Elections (& CP), 1932-1934, inclusive
Box: 1, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ethiopia - imperialism, war, Fascism, 1928-1936, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Garveyism & Communism, 1923-1952, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Government investigations, ca.1919-1931, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Government investigations files & notes, 1920s-1930s, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Government investigations, 1920-1930, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harlem riot, 1933-1936, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Herndon, Angelo, 1933-1976, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Huiswoud, Otto - biography, 1929-1998, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Inprecorr, 1928-1935, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International TU community of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), 1933-1937, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
International Labor Defense (ILD), 1929-1936, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interviews - notes, research material, 1970s, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor issues, 1931-1936, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
League of Struggle for Negro Rights (LSNR), ca.1933, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Left - pre-Communist - notes, typescripts, 1931-1936, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lynching photocopies, notes, 1931-1935, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
McKay, Claude, ca.1924-1930, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Minor, Robert notes, undated, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NAACP and Scottsboro - newspaper clippings, notes, ca.1931, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NAACP (The Crisis) booklet, notes, newspaper clippings, ca.1934, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Negro Congress, 1935-1938, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Negro Liberator - notes, undated, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New Deal, 1932-1937, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New Masses and other cultural material, 1930-1935, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Padmore and ITUCNW, 1933-1935, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Popular Front (policies and action), 1935-1955, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scottsboro trial - newspaper clippings, research notes, 1928-1933, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scottsboro trial - newspaper clippings, research notes, 1934-1977, inclusive
Box: 2, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Self-determination - "Nation within a Nation", 1927-1993, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sharecroppers - Alabama, 1930-1976, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sharecroppers' Union repression South, 1929-1940, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
South - Gastonia etc., 1929-1967, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Students and youth, 1932-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trade Union Unity League Unions (TUUL), 1927-1973, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Trade Unions (CIO), 1935-1936, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unemployed Movement (UCs), 1931-1935, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
White Chauvinism and CP, 1933-1935, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Assorted research material, 1936-2013, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hobsbawm Review, 2011
Box: 5, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes and papers, 1978-2007, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
OAH 78 proposal "Marxism and Black History", 1977-1979, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Berrons Commission on Interracial Cooperation, 1934-1940, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles and newspaper clippings, 1976
Box: 5, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence, grants and fellowships, 1973-1974, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Research materials, 1945-1950, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
(Negro) Ideology - War, Imperialism - Facism, 1933-1938, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
August 1931 Chicago anti-eviction mvt, 1931
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NAACP- org and ideologies, 1936-1941, 1931-1941, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The South - mvt and conditions, 1937, 1937
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NAACP- ideology and tactics, 1929-1936, 1934-1938, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Research to be sorted, 1934-1938, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Organizations - Negro Urban League, etc, 1932
Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cultural movement (Negro and White), 1933-1934, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Institutions - Negro colleges +(women), 1933-1936, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Politics - Parties Ideology, 1934-1940, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conditions - Negro, general, 1933
Box: 5, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist party and the Negro movement, 1931
Box: 5, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Organized labor and the Negro, 1934-1936, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rosenwald Fund Conference, 1933
Box: 5, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Interracial movement and cooperation, 1933-1941, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contact interview lists, 1973-1974, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The student movement and youth movement, 1933-1940, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spain and Negro, 1936
Box: 5, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Religious movement, 1937-1965, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ideology - Negro strategy and tactics, 1934-1937, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chas. Martin - AHA Proposal, 1976-1977, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Research materials, 1970-1973, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lectures and drafts, 1976-2017, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 31-32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"R", 1974
Box: 5, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Promotional materials for The Cry Was Unity, 1999
Box: 5, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Research notes and publications, 1947-2017, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ancillary materials, The Cry Was Unity, 1999-2000, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Post-1936 - CP, etc., 1936-1945, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Research materials, 1937
Box: 5, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Kaufman miscellaneous, 1827-1937, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Articles and notes, 1933-1987, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cold War critics, 1941-1969, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Materials, Black Cold War critics, 1946-1971, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Papers and drafts, 1977-1979, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Series II. Robert Kaufman Research Files
African Blood Brotherhood, 1921-1974, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American Negro Labor Congress (ANLC), 1924-1929, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bibliographies, ca.1939 , undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black business, 1920-1940, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Black Leadership, 1921-1924, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 1919-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Camp Hill, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Chicago eviction riot - newspaper clippings, 1931-1933, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party, 1924-1925, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party, 1928-1935, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Communist Party - Report on economic crisis for 13th Plenum CPUSA (typescript 41 pp.), 1931, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conference, Second Amenia, Aug 18, 1933-Aug 21, 1923
Box: 3, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Coolidge - black attitude, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Crosswaith, Frank - articles, 1928-1941, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Du Bois - articles, 1928-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Duvall, C.H., "The Building of a Race" (lecture, 62 pp.), 1919, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ford, James W., "World Problems of the Negro People" (pamphlet, 23 pp.), undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fortyninth State Movement, 1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gastonia, 1929, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gordon, Eugene - columns, 1933-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harlem - letter, 1935, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harper, Solomon, 1960, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Harrison, Hubert - articles, 1912-1927, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Houston, Charles - letter, 1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Imperialism, Congress against, ca.1931, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Johnson, Charles S., "The Economic Status of Negroes"(pamphlet, 53 pp.), 1919, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor Age, 1931-1967, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor struggles, 1924-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
League of Struggle for Negro Rights, 1933-1942, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lynching and anti-lynch, 1929-1934, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Migration, 1923-1944, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
NAACP - correspondence research notes, 1931-1938, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Association of Wage Earners - domestic workers, ca.1924, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Unemployment League, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Needle Trade Workers, 1931-1932, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nowlin, William, "The Negro in American National Politics", 1931, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
O'Neil, Socrate Abelard E., "Negro Problem Solved" (pamphlet, 61 pp.), 1918, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pickens, William, 1932, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Powell, Adam Clayton Sr., ca.1932, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press clippings - African American, 1931, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press items from tape (typescripts), undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scottsboro - correspondence (research notes), 1931-1934, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scottsboro-newspaper clippings, 1931-1933, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sharecroppers - letter, 1942, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Socialist Party, 1934, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Stool Pigeon testimony - William Nowell and Manning Johnson, 1951, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unemployment, 1931-1932, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
UNIA, 1926-1939, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Urban conditions - Detroit and Baltimore, 1927-1935, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Vaughn, Geo L., "The Negro Armageddon" (pamphlet, 28 pp.), ca.1925, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Walrond, Eric D., includes article on Caspar Holstein, 1927-1935, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Walton, Lester A., undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Women workers, 1932, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
