Scope & Contents

PART 2

The documents in this collection include correspondence, clippings, reports, scrapbooks, and manuscript drafts related to Harvey O'Connor's writings, his HUAC trial, and his civil libertarian activities.

Subjects

American League for Peace and Democracy and American Peace Mobilization, Chicago, 1940s

Coal Miners, 1930s

House Un-American Activities Committee

Hull House

McCarthyism

National Unemployment League

Oil Workers International Union

Petroleum Industry

Pittsburgh politics, 1930s

Progressive Party, 1948

Steel Industry

Steel Strikes, 1930s

Correspondents

Blankenhorn, Heber Mazey, Ernest

Braden, Ann & Carl Morgan, J.P.

Chafee, John Pauling, Linus

Cousins, Norman Pearson, Lester

Foreman, Clark Pell, Claiborne

Golden, Harry Rayburn, Sam

Guggenheim, Maurice Roosevelt, James

Knight, O.A. Rostow, Eugene V.

Lamont, Thomas Spock, Benjamin

Livingston, Edward Mortimer Sward, Keith

Marshall, Dorothy Wilkinson, Frank

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Transfers

A number of books and periodicals received with this collection have been placed in the Archives Library, and few photographs and posters are available in the Archives Audiovisual Department. A large group of books relating to the world petroleum industry was transferred to Wayne State's Purdy Library Business Collection.

Series Statement

19 Storage Boxes

5 Large Flat Boxes

Series I, Subject files, 1919-1987, Boxes 1-8,

Series II, Correspondence, 1915-1987, Boxes 9-18,

Series III, Scrapbooks, 1908-1973,

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