Jefferson School of Social Science Records, 1942-1956
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Summary Information

Title: Jefferson School of Social Science Records
Inclusive Dates: 1942-1956

Creator:
  • Jefferson School of Social Science (New York, N.Y.)
Call Number: Micro 840

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:
Records of a Marxist adult education center (1944-1956) in New York City that mainly concern its listing by the Subversive Activities Control Board as a communist front. Such records include legal documents, hearing transcripts, and petitions and statements in support of the school's positions. Concerning internal administration of the Jefferson School are incomplete files of correspondence, annual reports, executive committee meeting minutes, Bulletins of the school's predecessor, the School for Democracy; departmental memoranda; course listings; newsclippings; and speeches and statements by the director, Howard Selsam. Of note among the fragmentary, routine correspondence is a letter from Philip S. Foner, who taught labor history at the school.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0840
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