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Early life in Chicago: International Workers' Order, Unemployed Councils, organizing for Communist party, 1914-1935; Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1937-1938; organizing Packing House Workers for the Young Communist League; WWII service teaching "war orientation"; launching Chicago Star, 1946; racial violence in Chicago; cold war period and Communist party underground, 1951-1956; election of 1954 and Chicago mayoral race of 1955; revelations of 20th Communist Party Congress, 1956, resignation from the party, 1957; career in truck trailer leasing Commerce, Industry, and Labor; marriages; views on communism, democracy, and women's rights; In These Times. Appended list of material and writings donated to The Bancroft Library.