Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1897, Dec. 15 | Born, Vilnius, Lithuania |
1898 | Immigrated to United States |
1916-1919 | Attended City College of New York, New York, N.Y. |
1919 | Founder, Communist Party of the United States of America |
1920 | Elected to Central Committee of the Communist Party, became full-time functionary of the party |
1922 | Founder, Workers School, New York, N.Y. |
1924-1929 | Secretary, New York and New Jersey district, Workers Party Helped organize unions and strikes among garment, subway, and textile workers |
1925-1932 | Unsuccessful candidate in New York elections for city comptroller, mayor, and United States Senate |
1929-1930 | Representative of the Communist Party of the United States of America to the Communist International in Moscow, USSR |
1932 | Editor, The Daily Worker |
1934-1938 | Secretary, Michigan Communist Party Helped organize sit-down strike of automobile workers, Detroit, Mich. |
1939-1942 | Director, Workers School, New York, N.Y. |
circa 1943 | Divorced Gertrude Haessler |
1944 | Married Monette Solataroff |
circa 1945-circa 1950 | Educational director, Communist Party of New York State |
1951-1953 | Arrested, tried, and convicted for violation of Smith Act |
1955-1956 | Served two-year prison sentence, Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Mo. |
1957-1959 | Educational director, Communist Party of New York State |
circa 1965 | Editor and Director, New Outlook Publishers and Distributors |
1968-1969 | American representative, Preparatory Commission for International Conference of Communist and Workers' Parties, Moscow, USSR, 1969 |
1970 | Awarded Lenin Medal by Supreme Council of Soviets of the USSR |
1981 | Appeared in motion picture, Reds |
1985, Oct. 22 | Died, Queens, New York, N.Y. |