Pasadena, California: Institute for Special Research, [ca. 1961]. A report on the left wing infiltration of the American education system and the “hungry, prowling Communist octopus [that] has one slimy tentacle always extended to fasten its coil around impressionable and restless YOUTH.” Many photostat reprints throughout of left wing publications..... More
New York: Jefferson School of Social Science, 1945. Two ephemeral items for courses offered through the Jefferson School of Social Science, the radical learning institution established by the Communist Party in 1944 to replace the New York Workers School. Included is a four-page brochure for “A Day at the Jefferson..... More
[San Diego]: The San Diego Union, [1970]. Originally published as a five-part series in The San Diego Union, Betts, a British-born journalist, blames the Communist-inspired New Left for the unrest on American college campuses. He investigates the constellation of student groups, black power organizations, and liberal agencies all infected with..... More
[1926-27]. A photo album / scrapbook compiled by Mary Jane Irvine (Markey) (1908-1994) during her senior year (1926-27) at Stephens College for Women in Columbia, MO, the second oldest women’s college in the U.S. The album includes approximately 200 photographs, newspaper clippings, and other related ephemera primarily depicting Irvine’s social..... More
New York: New Outlook Publishers, 1973. A pamphlet by the veteran black Communist reprinting three articles on education and racism: Education Against Racism in the German Democratic Republic; Racist Indoctrination in West Germany; and Racism in U.S. School Textbooks. In his introduction, Lightfoot explains the pamphlet’s intent “to create an..... More
Cambridge: Boston Women's Teachers' Group, Inc., 1986. This issue devoted to standardization. See photo for full Contents list. Stapled, glossy wrappers (8 ½” x 11”), 40 p., illus. Rubbing, creasing to wrappers, some soiling to fore-edge and a few penned words to rear wrapper. More