Dissertation Bibliography

Well then,

I figured I'd make a post since it's been a while.  Below is a comprehensive list of my dissertation resources, which obviously will expand, but for those out there interested in American Communism, this also serves as a comprehensive list of the key works and papers necessary to build a full picture.  Some might note that the CPUSA collection at Tamiment is not there; this is primarily because everything in that collection has been gone through, at length, by many of the secondary sources I list.  No need to research what others have already done....anywho:  Enjoy!

Primary Sources

Reuther Library Collections

Al Fishman Papers, 1940-2008.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number UP001654

Claude Williams Papers, 1929-1979.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000819

Carl Haessler Papers, 1908-1972.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000031

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers, 1956-1964.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000122

Ernest Goodman Papers, 1929-1997. Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number UP001152

Government Military Investigation Papers, 1933-1940.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LR001143

George Crockett Papers, 1944-1995.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number UP000276

Helen Bowers Papers, 1934-1995.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP001878

Henry Kraus Papers, 1926-1960. Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000112

J. Edward Bailey III Papers, 1950-1989.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number UP001588

Irwin L. Deshelter Papers, 1928-1984.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000301

Nat Ganley and Saul Wellman Papers, 1945-1953.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000308

Ronald Aronson Papers, 1977-2013.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number WSP002445.

Sam Dolgoff Papers, 1907-1969.  Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number LP000568

Wilbur and Mary Alice Baldinger Papers, 1929-1976. Walter P. Reuther Library, WSU.  Accession Number UP000902

UCAPAWA Collection

Document: Attention Mr. Cleverly, dated July 30^th, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the

Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers of America (FTA).  Labor Archives & Research

Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 11

Document: Grossman Letter.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA.  Labor Archives &

Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 11

Document: List of Demands, Dated March 30^th, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the

FTA.  Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 13

Document: N-L Collection Sumamry.  The Norman Leonard Collection.  Labor Archives &

Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006

Document: NLRB Injunction Letter, dated March 16^th, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA.  Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 14

Document: NLRB Decision, Dated March 30^th, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA. 

Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 14

Document: To California Farmers, Dated April 10^th, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the

FTA.  Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 14

Document: UCAPAWA Contract Salinas. The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA.  Labor

Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.   Box 267, Folder 10

Document: Wagner Act.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA.  Labor Archives & Research

Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 266, Folder 9

Document: Witness List.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA.  Labor Archives &

Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 11

Document: Worker Letter, dated August 15, 1937.  The Norman Leonard Collection on the FTA. 

Labor Archives & Research Center, SFSU.  Accession Number 1985/006.  Box 267, Folder 11

Oral Histories and Autobiographies

Artt, Michele.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  February 14^th, 2014 & March 28^th, 2015

Bob Treuhaft.  Interview by Robert G. Larsen for Regional Oral History Office, UC Berkeley.  Tape V, Side A.  December 6^th, 1988

Brodine, Russel.  Fiddle and Fight.  NY:  International Publishers, 2001

Cabron, Arturo.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  May 17^th, 2012

Cabron, Rossana.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  April 25^th, 2012

Cannon, James P.  A History of American Trotskyism.  New York:  Pathfinder Publishing, 2002

Charney, George.  A Long Journey.  New York: Quadrangle Books, 1968

Davis, Benjamin J.  Communist Councilman from Harlem.  New York: International Publishers, 1990

Dennis, Peggy. The Autobiography of an American Communist. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1977.

Healey, Dorothy Ray.  Dorothy Healey Remembers.  Interviews by UCLA Center for Oral History Research, UCLA, 1971-1973. 

Lumpkin, Beatrice.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  September 19^th, 2011

----.  Joy in the Struggle.  New York:  International Publishers, 2015

Marshall, Scott.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  May 9^th, 2012

Rivas, Luis.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  May 24^th, 2012

Ramirez, Armando.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  May 16^th, 2012

Ruben, Danny.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  February 24^th, 2012 & October 25^th, 2012

Smith, Betty.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  January 20^th, 2013

Verna, Rita.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.  November 20^th, 2012

Weaver-Lopez, Cassandra.  Interview by Joshua Morris for CPUSA Oral History Project.   June 6^th, 2012

Periodicals and Congressional Reports and Party Texts

Communist Party Central Committee (1978).  Highlights of a Fighting History:  60 Years of the Communist Party of the United States, Selected Documents.  New York:  International Publishers, 1979

The Communist (Periodical/Party Text).  1932-1950

Daily Worker (Periodical).  1932-1945

The Detroit News (Periodical).  1948-1970

Dennis, Eugene.  “Defeat the Imperialist Drive Toward Fascism and War” in Political Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 9 (September, 1946)

Foster, William.  Toward Soviet America. (NY: International Publishers, 1932)
-----.  “Acceptance Speech, 1932” in May Acceptance Speeches of Communist Candidates for President and Vice President,
            December, 1932.  (accessed from Deering Library Special Collections, Political Pamphlets)
-----.  “An Open Letter to John Fitzpatrick” in The Labor Herald, Vol. 2, No. 11: January 1924
-----.  “Strike Strategy:  A Pamphlet by the Trade Union Educational League, 1926.”
            http://www.marxists.org/archive/foster/1926/strikestrategy/index.htm  (accessed 4/27/15, 5:17pm)

“Resolution of the 13^th Plenum of the Central Committee”, The Communist, October 1931
“Thesis on Parliamentarianism, Resolution of the Communist International,” The Communist, February 1932
“Draft of Party Platform”, in The Communist, May 1932
“Results of 1931 and Prospects for 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics” in The Communist International, Vol. IX, No.
             2,  Feb 1^st, 1932

Los Angeles Times (Periodical).  1935-1985

Jones, Claudia.  “On the Right to Self-Determination for the Negro People in the Black Belt,” in Political Affairs, Vol. 24 (January, 1946)

"National Labor Relations Act, aka Wagner Act; Pub.L. 74-198, 49 Stat. 449, codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. § 151–169." Washington D.C., 1935.

New York Times  (Periodical). 1935-1985

The Labor Herald. "Salinas Teamsters Dumped in NLRB Poll." October 5, 1948.

Winston, Henry.  “Party Tasks Among the Negro People,” in Political Affairs, Vol. 24 (April, 1946)

U.S. Senate, Committee on Education and Labor.  Report on Violations of Free Speech and the

Rights of Labor, 78^th Congress, 2^nd Session, Report #398, Printed 1948, pp. 130

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Barrett, James R. William Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Bates, Beth Tompkins. The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford. University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Biondi, Martha. To Stand and Fight:  The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City. Harvard University Press, 2006.

Bonnet, Clarence E. History of Employers’ Associations in the United States. New York: Vantage Press, 1956.

Bracke, Maud. Which Socialism, Whose Detente? CEU Press, 2007.

Brown, Kathleen A., and Elizabeth Faue. “Social Bonds, Sexual Politics, and Political Community.” Left History 7, no. 1 (Spring 2000): 9–45.

Carson, Jenny. “Taking on Corporate Bullies: Cintas, Laundry Workers, and Organizing in the 1930s and Twenty-First Century.” Labor Studies Journal, September 9, 2010. doi:10.1177/0160449X10379642.

Carson, Jenny, and Nell Geiser. “The Democratic Initiative: The Promises and Limitations of Inudstrial Unionism for New York City’s Laundry Workers, 1930-1950.” Labor 8, no. 4 (2011): 65–87.

Clune, Lori. Executing the Rosenbergs:  Death & Diplomacy in a Cold War World. First. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Davies, Carole Boyce. Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones. Duke University Press, 2008.

Davis, Angela Y. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle:  Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. New York: Haymarket Books, 2016.

Deery, Phillip. Red Apple:  Communism and McCarthyism in Cold War New York. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.

Devinatz, Victor G. “Red Unionism During the Depression and Under McCarthyism:  Reflections on Mine-Mill, the Workers Unity League, and the Minneapolis Teamsters.” American Communist History 13, no. 2–3 (2014): 189–98.

Draper, Theodore. American Communism and Soviet Russia. New York: Viking Press, 1957.

———. The Roots of American Communism. First. New York: Viking Press, 1957.

Faue, Elizabeth. Community of Suffering and Struggle. University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Fernandez, Lila. Brown in the Windy City: Mexicans and Puerto Ricans in Postwar Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Gaido, Daniel, and Velia Luparello. “Strategy and Tactics in a Revolutionary Period:  U.S. Trotskyism and the European Revolution, 1943-1946.” Science & Society 78, no. 4 (October 2012): 484–512.

Garcia, Mario T. Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960. Yale University Press, 1991.

Honey, Michael K. Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, n.d.

Howe, Irving, and Lewis Coser. The American Communist Party: A Critical History. Second. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc, 1957.

Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkley: University of California Press, 2008.

Isserman, Maurice. Which Side Were You On?  The American Communist Party during the Second World War. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Isserman, Maurice, and Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. Third. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Johanningsmeier, Edward. Forgin American Communism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Johns, Michael. “Winning for Losing:  A New Look at Harry Bridges and the ‘Big Strike’ of 1934.” American Communist History 13, no. 1 (n.d.): 1–24.

Johnson, Christopher H. Maurice Sugar:  Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988.

Kaplan, Judy, and Linn Shapiro. Red Diapers:  Growing Up in the Communist Left. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Keeran, Roger. The Communist Party and the Auto Workers Unions. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.

Kelley, Robin. Hammer and Hoe:  Alabama Communists During the Great Depression. University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Klehr, Harvey. The Heyday of American Communism. New York: Basic Books, 19941.

Klehr, Harvey, John Haynes, and Kyrill Anderson. The Soviet World of American Communism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

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Korstad, Robert, and Nelson Lichtenstein. “Opportunities Found and Lost: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement.” The Journal of American History 75, no. 3 (December 1988): 786–811. doi:10.2307/1901530.

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