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1. Seymour Martin Lipset papers, 1824-2013

   45,000 items. 120 containers plus 6 oversize. 50.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Sociologist and political theorist. Correspondence, writings, speeches, subject file, teaching material, notes and notebooks, projects file, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and other papers documenting Lipset's career as a sociologist and political theorist and his body of work.

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2. James R. Doolittle papers, 1859-1927

   130 items. 1 container. .4 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   United States senator and jurist. Correspondence, speeches, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous material relating mostly to Doolittle's Senate career and touching on the issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

3. William W. Weinstone papers, 1898-1985

   11,500 items. 33 containers plus 1 oversize. 13.2 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Founder of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Family and personal correspondence, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks, and subject files documenting Weinstone's role as a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States of America in 1919 and as an educator promoting its ideology, chiefly from 1937 to 1985.

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4. James Forman papers, 1848-2005

   79,000 items. 255 containers plus 2 oversize. 100.2 linear feet. 1 digital file (1.09 MB). -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Author, journalist, and civil rights activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, subject files, speeches and writings, family papers, appointment books and calendars, and other papers relating primarily to Forman's activities as executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and president of the Unemployment and Poverty Action Committee.

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5. Warren K. Billings papers, 1899-1973

   2,600 items. 14 containers plus 1 oversize. 5.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Laborer and union organizer. Family and general correspondence, legal files, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to the 1916 bombing conviction of Billings and Tom Mooney and papers relating to the Industrial Workers of the World, Billings’s activities in the union movement, especially in California, his life in Folsom State Prison, and his activities on behalf of the civil liberties of Vern Smith and Communist Party leader Earl Browder.

6. Louis F. Post papers, 1864-1940

   600 items. 11 containers. 4.4 linear feet. 1 microfilm reel. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Journalist, lawyer, and public official. Correspondence, manuscripts of articles and books, biographical data, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Post’s career as a writer, public official, and advocate of the single tax.

7. Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez papers, 1964-1998

   100 items. 1 container. 0.4 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Civil rights activist. Correspondence, memoranda, notes, a speech, lists, and a reprint of a newspaper article pertaining chiefly to Martínez's work as a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and her endeavors in helping James Forman, also a civil rights activist and SNCC member, with some of his writing projects.

8. M & S Collection of American radical extremist literature of the 20th century, 1934-1981

   5,500 items. 84 boxes. -- Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   The M & S Collection of American Radical Extremist Literature of the 20th Century's diversity is a reflection of this medley of American radical views. The collection documents the activities of extremist groups and their visions of the good community from 1934 to 1981, with the majority of the material centering on the years 1950 to 1981. The Collection embraces a vast number of subjects in a wide range of formats and genres, including broadsides, pamphlets, books, newspapers, newsletters, magazines, subscription and membership cards, order blanks, petitions, catalogs, advertisements, article reprints, and bumper stickers. The collection is strongest in printed ephemera: fund-raising letters, rally flyers, book order-forms, stickers, membership flyers, and propaganda pieces produced by many sorts of radical Americans. These materials chronicle the activities of radical groups, rallying, funds raising, propagandizing, theorizing, and petitioning.