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She joined the Communist Party USA at the age of 16, and had joined the youth branch, the American Youth for Democracy, when she was 13. [1] Early activism by Mitchell in the 1940s included participation in a successful sit-in protest against segregated seating in a theater, with white students sitting in the "colored only" balcony and Black ...
The Communist League of America (Opposition) was founded by James P. Cannon, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern late in 1928 after their expulsion from the Communist Party USA for Trotskyism. The CLA(O) was the United States section of Leon Trotsky 's International Left Opposition and initially positioned itself as not a rival party to the CPUSA ...
Antoinette F. Buchholz Konikow (November 1869 – 2 July 1946) [1] was an American physician, Marxist, and radical political activist.Konikow is best remembered as one of the pioneers of the American birth control movement and as a founding member of the Communist Party of America, forerunner of the Communist Party, USA.
On December 1, 1961, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) published a 288-page book entitled Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications. [1] This massive list, annotated with notes documenting the first official government mention of alleged communist affiliation, superseded a very similar list published on January 2, 1957. [1]
Women's suffrage; Repression and persecution. American Defense Society; American Protective League; Communist Party USA and African Americans; Communist Party USA in the labor movement. 1919–1937; 1937–1957; Espionage Act of 1917; First Red Scare; John Birch Society; McCarthyism; Seattle General Strike; Smith Act. Smith Act trials; Anti-war ...
The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901; Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931; Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas among women
An Aug. 12 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an image of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in front of a red sign with a hammer and sickle symbol that reads ...
The Communist Party opposed the United States involvement in the early stages of World War II (until June 22, 1941, the date of the German invasion of the Soviet Union), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the invasion of Grenada, and American support for anti-Communist military dictatorships and movements in Central America.