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Claudia Jones Black History Month
Black History The information in this booklet is derived from Kwesi Bacchra’s review of “Claudia Jones, a life in exile” by Marika Sherwood. http://www.brothermalcolm.net/archivedsites/claudia_jones_exile.htm Claudia Jones “The Mother of Carnival in Britain” Name………………………… Date……… July 2011. Kindly contributed by Maudine Morris, Bolton College. Search for Maudine on www.skillsworkshop.org Page 1 of 14 Covers many aspects of E3-L1 Adult Literacy including reading comprehension, vocabulary and dictionary work, spelling, and writing. For related resources and further curriculum links visit the resource description page at skillsworkshop. Black History The information in this booklet is derived from Kwesi Bacchra’s review of “Claudia Jones, a life in exile” by Marika Sherwood. http://www.brothermalcolm.net/archivedsites/claudia_jones_exile.htm Early Life Claudia Jones was born in Belmont, Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1915. Following the post war cocoa price crash, she went with her three sisters to join their parents who were in New York. Claudia was eight years old. Her mother died five years later. In the Depression, her father got a job as janitor of a run down apartment block in Harlem. Life was hard and they were so poor that the family could not afford to buy a “graduation outfit” she needed to collect the “Roosevelt Award for Good Citizenship” that she won in junior high school. Her formal education virtually ended in 1932 when she contracted tuberculosis which caused irreparable damage to her lungs. Doctors attributed the disease to the damp apartment the family lived in. In 1935 Claudia joined the Young Communist League, after reading how the communist party had defended nine Negro boys who were falsely accused of rape in Scottsboro, Alabama. -
Mary Van Kleeck • the COMMUNIST POSITION I by Earl Browder • INTERNATIONAL PAMPHLETS, No
NRA FROM WITHIN Wm. O. Thompson Member 01 the Darrow Board Mary van Kleeck • THE COMMUNIST POSITION I by Earl Browder • INTERNATIONAL PAMPHLETS, No. 41 5 cents FOREWORD· THE National Industrial Recovery Act has now been in opera tion for one year. The recent statement of William O. Thompson in resigning as a member of the National Recovery Review Board, clearly exposes this Act as an instrument for increasing the power of monopoly capital in the United States, a weapon for a further attack upon the standard of living of the working class and a step in the direction of fascism in this country. For their factual information and significant though incom plete interpretation of the National Industrial Recovery Act, we reproduce in this pamphlet certain statements as released to the press by persons who have participated in governmental bodie! during this period. We present also the fundamental analysis of the Roosevelt New Deal made by Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party of the U. S. A. A word of explanation on each is in place here. I. Thompson's Resignation: In a letter to President Roosevelt, June 14, 1934, W. O. Thompson presented his resignation as a member of the National Recovery Review Board, declaring that "as a result of my contact with the workings of the National Recovery Administration through membership on the Recovery Review Board, I have been forced to the following conclusions: The trend of the National Recovery Administration has been and continues to be toward the encouragement and development of monopoly capitalism in the United States.. -
Escaping the Master's House: Claudia Jones & the Black Marxist Feminist
Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Senior Theses and Projects Student Scholarship Spring 2017 Escaping the Master’s House: Claudia Jones & The Black Marxist Feminist Tradition Camryn S. Clarke Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses Part of the Feminist Philosophy Commons, and the Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies Commons Recommended Citation Clarke, Camryn S., "Escaping the Master’s House: Claudia Jones & The Black Marxist Feminist Tradition". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2017. Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/608 Escaping the Master’s House: Claudia Jones & The Black Marxist Feminist Tradition Camryn S. Clarke Page !1 of !45 Table of Contents Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Introduction 5 To Be Black: Claudia Jones, Marcus Garvey, and Race 14 To Be Woman: Claudia Jones, Monique Wittig, and Sex 21 To Be A Worker: Claudia Jones, Karl Marx, and Class 27 To Be All Three: Claudia Jones and the Black Marxist Feminist Tradition 36 Conclusion 41 Bibliography 44 Page !2 of !45 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I cannot express enough thanks to my advisors for their support, encouragement, and enlightenment: Dr. Donna-Dale Marcano and Dr. Seth Markle. Thank you for always believing in me in times when I did not believe in myself. Thank you for exposing me to Human Rights and Philosophy through the lenses of gender, race, and class globally. Thank you. My completion of this project could not have been accomplished without the support and strength of the Black Women in my life: my great-grandmother Iris, my grandmother Hyacinth, my mother Angela, my sister Caleigh, and my aunt Audrey. -
Remembering "Norris Buzz Johnson" November 2 1951 to February 11, 2014
Eulogy: Remembering "Norris Buzz Johnson" November 2 1951 to February 11, 2014 Memorial Service Saturday March 1st. 2014 at 1 pm All Saint's Church Haggerston Road Hackney London E8 4EP I recall Buzz gave me a birthday gift many years ago and it was a book entitled “Return to the Source” written by the late Amilcar Cabral. My words today will be in the form of a journey where I briefly return to the source of our brother’s foundations in Tobago and then Trinidad and the journey here to the UK and his growth and development and he will be making his final journey when the body returns to Tobago. Return to the Source: Norris Chrisleventon Johnson was the first and only son of Mrs Adwina Johnson nee Phillips and the late Cornelius Arthur Johnson. He was born in the fishing village of Buccoo in Tobago on November 2 1951. The family migrated to Fyzabad in South Trinidad, one of the villages that housed many workers from the oilfields in Point Fortin and its environs. His father Cornelius was on oilfield worker and was obviously influenced and inspired by a key political and labour activist and leader, Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler. He therefore called his son Buzz. That name has stuck with him ever since. The Fyzabad area was the main bastion of the Butlerite movement. Tubal Uriah Buzz Butler was a fierce defender of workers’ rights and earned his place in Trinidad and Tobago's history for his role during the turbulent days of June 1937. This was the period of the labour riots and the development of the trade union movement in Trinidad & Tobago and in particular of the Oilfield Workers Trade Union. -
George Nathan Caylor Papers Ms
George Nathan Caylor papers Ms. Coll. 422 Finding aid prepared by Molly B. Hutt. Last updated on July 14, 2020. University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts 2015 April 8 George Nathan Caylor papers Table of Contents Summary Information....................................................................................................................................3 Biography/History..........................................................................................................................................4 Scope and Contents....................................................................................................................................... 4 Administrative Information........................................................................................................................... 4 Related Materials........................................................................................................................................... 5 Controlled Access Headings..........................................................................................................................5 Collection Inventory...................................................................................................................................... 7 I. Autobiographical writings....................................................................................................................7 II. Biographical writings..........................................................................................................................9 -
The Courant Sponsored by the Syracuse University Library Associates ISSN 1554-2688
pecial Collectio n of the S ns Researc lleti h Cen A Bu ter number six spring 2007 THE COUraNT Sponsored by the Syracuse University Library Associates ISSN 1554-2688 Exhibition on the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti Will Be Unveiled for the Fall Semester of 2007 The Special Collections Research Center, as its contri- bution to the university’s Syracuse Symposium with its theme of justice commencing in the fall of 2007, will open an exhibition entitled The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti based upon its consider- able content documenting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti and the protests surrounding it. The two Italian anarchists were found guilty of murder in conjunction with an armed robbery in Massachusetts, condemned to death, and execut- ed in 1927. Due to the depth of our holdings in the area of radicalism as it manifested itself in literature and art, we are particularly well prepared to present the wide range of national and international protest that was generated by this sensational trial. As the image on this page attests, critics even likened it to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. The core of the exhibition consists of the printed ephem- era that was produced by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee and the other contemporary progressive orga- Political cartoon entitled Have a Chair! by Fred Ellis. (See nizations that could see only a travesty of justice in the pro- the piece on Ellis on page eight.) This appeared as one of his works published in The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti in Cartoons ceedings. -
Red Headquarters Are Raided Here; Revolt Plan Bared: Bomb Squad
NY Times: Red Headquarters are Raided Here [April 30, 1921] 1 Red Headquarters Are Raided Here; Revolt Plan Bared: Bomb Squad and Federal Agents Seize Literature Calling for May Day Revolution: Two Found in Apartment: Documents Indicate They are High Officials of Russia’s Third International: Third Arrested in Theatre: Is Delegate to “Underground Convention” — Papers Show Moscow Directed Conspiracy Here. Unsigned report in The New York Times, v. 102, whole no. 23,107 (April 30, 1921), pp. 1, 3. Detectives and agents of the Department of Jus- Sheepshead Bay. A satchel checked by Siebert at the tice under Charles J. Scully, head of the Radical Squad Pennsylvania Station revealed that he came here to at- of the Department of Justice, and Detective Sergeant tend the secret convention of the “Underground Party,” James J. Gegan, head of the Bomb Squad, shortly be- or violent faction of the United Communist Party, fore last midnight arrested Abraham Jakira, 32 years which is to be held tomorrow.‡ old, of 170 Bleecker Street, and Israel Amter, alias Ju- lius Farber, 40 years old, of 205 Brook Avenue, the Revolt Plot Dictated by Moscow. Bronx, in Jakira’s apartment and seized data of the vari- ous Communist parties in this country, which Scully When the men were arrested in the apartment and Gegan declared would lead to wholesale arrests of of Mrs. Helen Ware, on the 5th floor of the Bleecker radicals throughout the United States on charges of Street house, the detectives also uncovered three loaded criminal anarchy. magazine pistols and bundles of circulars similar to A few minutes after Jakira and Amter were ar- those which had been distributed at different points rested, several agents of the Department of Justice ap- of the city by communists, calling for the overthrow peared with a man [Edward Lindgren] who said he of the government on May Day, tomorrow. -
Abstract Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, Anti
ABSTRACT KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAYA, ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST, 1939-41 by Julie Laut Barbieri This paper utilizes biographies, correspondence, and newspapers to document and analyze the Indian socialist and women’s rights activist Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya’s (1903-1986) June 1939-November 1941 world tour. Kamaladevi’s radical stance on the nationalist cause, birth control, and women’s rights led Gandhi to block her ascension within the Indian National Congress leadership, partially contributing to her decision to leave in 1939. In Europe to attend several international women’s conferences, Kamaladevi then spent eighteen months in the U.S. visiting luminaries such as Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Sanger, lecturing on politics in India, and observing numerous social reform programs. This paper argues that Kamaladevi’s experience within Congress throughout the 1930s demonstrates the importance of gender in Indian nationalist politics; that her critique of Western “international” women’s organizations must be acknowledged as a precursor to the politics of modern third world feminism; and finally, Kamaladevi is one of the twentieth century’s truly global historical agents. KAMALADEVI CHATTOPADHYAYA, ANTI-IMPERIALIST AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST, 1939-41 A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Miami University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Department of History By Julie Laut Barbieri Miami University Oxford, Ohio 2008 Advisor____________________________ (Judith P. Zinsser) Reader_____________________________ (Mary E. Frederickson) Reader_____________________________ (David M. Fahey) © Julie Laut Barbieri 2008 For Julian and Celia who inspire me to live a purposeful life. Acknowledgements March 2003 was an eventful month. While my husband was in Seattle at a monthly graduate school session, I discovered I was pregnant with my second child. -
For All the People
Praise for For All the People John Curl has been around the block when it comes to knowing work- ers’ cooperatives. He has been a worker owner. He has argued theory and practice, inside the firms where his labor counts for something more than token control and within the determined, but still small uni- verse where labor rents capital, using it as it sees fit and profitable. So his book, For All the People: The Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America, reached expectant hands, and an open mind when it arrived in Asheville, NC. Am I disappointed? No, not in the least. Curl blends the three strands of his historical narrative with aplomb, he has, after all, been researching, writing, revising, and editing the text for a spell. Further, I am certain he has been responding to editors and publishers asking this or that. He may have tired, but he did not give up, much inspired, I am certain, by the determination of the women and men he brings to life. Each of his subtitles could have been a book, and has been written about by authors with as many points of ideological view as their titles. Curl sticks pretty close to the narrative line written by worker own- ers, no matter if they came to work every day with a socialist, laborist, anti-Marxist grudge or not. Often in the past, as with today’s worker owners, their firm fails, a dream to manage capital kaput. Yet today, as yesterday, the democratic ideals of hundreds of worker owners support vibrantly profitable businesses. -
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DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1929 Page Five New York Graduates of Brookwood Denounce Anti-Labor Policy of School at Meet Labor Defense Mass Workers International REVEAL “MUSTE Communist Activities U.S, NOW FINDS I Meeting in Buffalo RELIEF STORE TO Relief in France Hits lOORS CONVERGE W illHear Karl Reeve Attack on Tent Colony -1 Unit 1. i Manhattan! i j j Discussion on the C. I. Address The GROUP" AS AID * wr ill be held at the meeting at 27 E. RIFLES MISUSED BUFFALO, N. Y., June 16.—A ASSIST STRIKERS Workers International Re- TO FIGHT FRENCH Subsection 311. jFourth St. tonight. mass meeting under the auspices of lief, 1 Union Square, New York A meeting will be held at 6.30 p.m. ... City, has received the following today the International Labor Defense, at 350 E. 81st St. The C. I. 1 Address will be discussed. t'oniiuunlnt Youth League, Downtown Good Says Tennessee with Comiade Carl Reeve as the Get Your Pressing Done cablegram on the Gastonia out- ‘Peaceful Penetration’ TO THE BOSSES ? * * Unit 1. rage speaker, will take place tomorrow at from the French section of International Branch, Section 3. Youth speakers will address the Buy Own Guns at Ave. Painleve’s Lie A meeting; will be held tonight at t meeting at 8 p. m. today at Fifth St. Should 8 p. m. in the New Workers Center, 418 Brook the Workers International Re- 101 W. 27th Street. and Ave. B on the Gastonia strike. lief, world organization: * * * 200 Ellicott St., Buffalo, N. -
Beckett in Black and Red: the Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro
University of Kentucky UKnowledge French and Francophone Literature European Languages and Literatures 2000 Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro Alan Warren Friedman University of Texas Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Thanks to the University of Kentucky Libraries and the University Press of Kentucky, this book is freely available to current faculty, students, and staff at the University of Kentucky. Find other University of Kentucky Books at uknowledge.uky.edu/upk. For more information, please contact UKnowledge at [email protected]. Recommended Citation Friedman, Alan Warren, "Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro" (2000). French and Francophone Literature. 10. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_french_and_francophone_literature/10 IRISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND CULTURE Jonathan Allison, General Editor Advisory Board George Bornstein, University of Michigan Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, University of Texas James S. Donnelly Jr., University ofWisconsin Marianne Elliott, University of Liverpool Roy Foster, Hertford College, Oxford David Lloyd, Scripps College Weldon Thornton, University of North Carolina This page intentionally left blank BECI<ETT . In BLACIZ and The Translations for RED Nancy Cunard's NEGRO (1934) EDITED BY ALAN WARREN FRIEDMAN THE UNIVERSrrY PRESS OF KENIUCKY Publication of this volume was made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Copyright © 2000 by The University Press of Kentucky Scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth, serving Bellarmine College, Berea College, Centre College of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University, The Filson Club Historical Society, Georgetown College, Kentucky Historical Society, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, Transylvania University, University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, and Western Kentucky University. -
SHELTON HOTEL, 525 Lexington Avenue
Landmarks Preservation Commission November 22, 2016, Designation List 490 LP-2557 SHELTON HOTEL, 525 Lexington Avenue (aka 523-527 Lexington Avenue, 137-139 East 48th Street, 136-140 East 49th Street), Manhattan Built: 1922-23; architect, Arthur Loomis Harmon Landmark Site: Borough of Manhattan, Tax Map Block 1303, Lot 53 On July 19, 2016 the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the Shelton Hotel and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 4). The hearing had been duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of the law. A representative of the owner spoke in favor of the designation acknowledging the building’s architectural and cultural importance. There were five other speakers in support of the designation including representatives of Borough President Gale Brewer, Community Board 6, the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the Historic Districts Council, and the Municipal Arts Society. A representative of the Real Estate Board of New York spoke in opposition to the designation. A representative of Council Member Daniel Garodnick submitted written testimony in support of the designation. Two other individuals have also submitted emails in support of the designation. Summary Designed by architect Arthur Loomis Harmon and completed in 1923, the Shelton Hotel was one of the first “skyscraper” residential hotels. With its powerful massing it played an important role in the development of the skyscraper in New York City. Located on the east side of Lexington Avenue between 48th and 49th Streets, it is one of the premiere hotels constructed along the noted “hotel alley” stretch of Lexington Avenue, which was built as part of the redevelopment of this section of East Midtown that followed the opening of Grand Central Terminal and the Lexington Avenue subway line.