Jay Schaffner Papers
1950-2010, inclusive
; 1970-1990, bulk
Schaffner, Jay
Schaffner, Jay (Role: Donor)
The papers contain records of the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs of America, the Young Workers Liberation League, the Communist Party USA, the Committees of Correspondence / Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, and include convention discussion materials, reports, statements, notebooks, subject files, and clippings. The materials cover the activity of Schaffner and these organizations in Illinois, New York, the United States, and internationally. There are also files on Schaffner's 1970 trip to North Vietnam, including his notebooks, clippings and other materials documenting student political activity at Niles Township High School (Illinois), a single file on the Labor Youth League, a 1950s Communist Party affiliated youth organization, several files each on Anniversary Tours, Voices of the Future, and on the Greek Communist Party in the 1970s-1980s, some in Greek, and on Schafffner's 1976 trip to Greece.
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Young Workers Liberation League, 1969-1975
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Young Workers Liberation League, 1976-1980
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Young Workers Liberation League (1976-1984); Notebooks (1986-1977, beginning), 1968-1984
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Notebooks (1968-1977, end), 1968-1977
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Notes and Speeches (1968-1980); Chicago (1968-1971, beginning), 1968-1980
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Chicago (1968-1971, end), undated
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Greek Communist Party; Jay Schaffner's Trip to Greece; CPUSA Educational Materials, 1970s-1980s
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Communist Party Documents, 1970s-1980s
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Communist Party Documents (1970s-1990s): Labor Youth League (1950s); Anniversary Tours, undated
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Communist Party pre-1991 Convention Discussion Materials; Various Subject Files; Communist Party (1969-1979, begin), 1969-1990s
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Communist Party (1969-1979, end); Communist Party USA and New York State (1979-1991, begin); Anniversary Tours, 1969-1991
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Anniversary Tours; Communist Party, USA and New York State (1979-1991, end); Communist Party (1992-1994); Committees of Correspondence, aka COC (1991-1994), 1979-1994
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Communist Party (1991-1994); Committees of Correspondence (1991-1994), 1991-1994
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Committees of Correspondence (National and New York State), 1992-1994
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Committees of Correspondence, 1993-1998
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Committees of Correspondence / Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, aka CCDS (1993-2005); Subject Files; Tributes to Lou Diskin, Gil Green, Jack Spiegel, 1993-1999, undated
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Committees of Correspondence / Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism 1990-2005; Voices of the Future, 1990-2005
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Committees of Correspondence / Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, 1990s-2000s
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Committees of Correspondence / Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, 1990s-2000s
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Schaffner's 1970 trip to North Vietnam (includes his notebooks); Niles Township High School, Skokie Illinois (clippings on student activism, etc.), 1970s; Voices of the Future, Anniversary Tours, 1980s., 1970s-1980s
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Jobs (includes music CD), Committees of Correspondence, and Alliance to End Repression and ACLU v. Chicago, 1970s-early 2000s, inclusive
21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Committees of Correspondence: Notes, Correspondence, Finances, and Conventions, 1990s-early 2000s, inclusive
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Anniversary Tours, 1970s-1991, inclusive
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Anniversary Tours (1970s-1990) and Chronological Files (1963-1997), 1963-1997, inclusive
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Chronological Files (1998-2010), Empire State College, and Scrapbook relating to Anniversary Tours, 1970s-2010, inclusive
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