Scope & Contents

Lawrence and Dorothy Van Camp were active in the Socialist Party from the 1920s through the 1940s. Mr. Van Camp, from Battle Creek, Michigan, was appointed an organizer for the Socialist Party of Michigan in 1933. The papers of Lawrence and Dorothy Van Camp consist of a small amount of correspondence with party colleagues as well as convention materials, leaflets and other printed material arguing the Socialist Party position on various issues.

Transfers

A large number of pamphlets and magazines dealing with a variety of topics, including the Socialist Party, World War II, the New Deal, the Moscow trials, the Spanish Civil War, Marxist theory, Norman Thomas, and Leon Trotsky, have been placed in the Archives Library

Index

Box 1

1. Brookwood Labor College; labor history course outline, 1933

2. Correspondence, 1933-39

3. Correspondence; Fred Henderson, 1933-35

4. Socialist Party; factionalism, 1934-38

5. Socialist Party; leaflets, 1930s-1940s

6. Socialist Party; miscellaneous, 1933-43

7. Socialist Party; monographs, 1930s-1940s

8. Socialist Party National Convention; agenda, minutes, keynote address, rules, 1940

9. Socialist Party National Convention; report, 1940

10. Socialist Party National Convention; resolutions, 1940

11. Socialist Party National Convention; songs, motions, position papers, 1940

12. Socialist Party of Michigan; platform and propaganda plan, n. d.

13. Socialist Party of Michigan; “Report of the State Secretary,” 1936-37

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