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African American/Antiracist Movements

• African American Anticolonialism

• African Americans

• American Negro Labor Congress

• Black Panther Party

• Civil Rights Congress

• Civil Rights Movement

• Garveyism

• National Negro Congress

• National Negro Labor Council

• Radical Abolitionists

• Reconstruction

• Share Croppers Union

• Slave Insurrections

• Southern Conference Educational Fund

• Southern Negro Youth Congress

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Agrarian Left

• Agrarian Radicalism

• Farmer-Labor Party

• Greenback Labor Party

American Indians

• American Indian Movement

• Peltier, Leonard

Armed Movements

• Armed Struggle, 1960s-1970s

• Attica

• Slave Insurrections

Art Movements (Literature, Painting, Theater, Dance, Photography, Film)

• American Writers Congress

• ARTEF

• Art Movements

• Beats and the New Left

• Dada

• Federal Theater Project

• Modern Dance

• Modicut Theater

• Murals

• Newsreel and Post-New Left Filmmaking

• Photography

• Political Theater, 1960s-1980s•

• Proletpen•

• Radical Filmmaking, 1930s•

• Union-Sponsored Radical Films

• Artists (Painting, Cartoons,

• Dance)•

• Duncan, Isadora

• Evergood, Philip

• Fasanella, Ralph

• Gellert, Hugo

• Gropper, William

• Industrial Workers of the World

• Cartoons

• Minor, Robert

• Rivera, Diego

• Shahn, Ben

• Young, Art

Authors (Fiction)

• Algren, Nelson•

• Bellamy, Edward

• Buck, Pearl S.

• Bulosan, Carlos

• Campbell, Helen

• Conroy, Jack

• DuBois, W. E. B.

• Farrell, James T.

• Fast, Howard

• Frank, Waldo

• Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

• Gold, Michael

• Goldman, Emma

• Herbst, Josephine

• Howells, William Dean

• Le Sueur, Meridel

• Lippard, George

• London, Jack

• McKay, Claude

• McKenney, Ruth

• Olson, Tillie

• Parker, Dorothy

• Popular Fiction

• Proletarian and Radical Writers,

• 1930s-1940s

• Quin, Mike

• Radical Novel, 1870-1930

• Sinclair, Upton

• Swados, Harvey

• Wright, Richard

Authors (Film)

• Hellman, Lillian

• Lardner, Ring, Jr.

• Lawson, John Howard

• Ornitz, Samuel

• Authors (Composers and Lyricists)

• Blitzstein, Marc

• Chaplin, Ralph

• Copland, Aaron

• Guthrie, Woody

• Harburg, Edgar Y.

• Hill, Joe

• Robeson, Paul

• Robinson, Earl

• Seeger, Charles

• Seeger, Pete

Authors (Nonfiction)

• Bourne, Randolph

• Dietzgen, Joseph

• Chomsky, Noam

• Frank, Waldo

• Gold, Michael

• Harrington, Michael

• Harrison, Hubert

• Haywood, Harry

• Heywood, Ezra

• Hicks, Granville

• Hillquit, Morris

• Hoffman, Abbie

• Hook, Sidney

• Howe, Irving

• Hughan, Jessie Wallace

• Hutchins, Grace

• Inman, Mary

• James, C. L. R.

• Keller, Helen

• Marcy, Mary

• Lens, Sidney

• Lewis, Austin

• Mitford, Jessica

• Mumford, Lewis

• New Left Literature

• Ovington, Mary White

• Paine, Thomas

Reed, John

Rochester, Anna

Smedley, Agnes

Snow, Edgar

Spargo, John

T-Bone Slim

Vorse, Mary Heaton

Authors (Poetry)

de Cleyre, Voltairine

Giovannitti, Arturo

Hughes, Langston

Markham, Edwin

McGrath, Tom

McKay, Claude

Poetry, 1870-1930

Radical Poetry, 1930s-1960s

Sandburg, Carl

Authors (Theater)

Hansberry, Lorraine

Hellman, Lillian

Odets, Clifford

Community OrganizingCampaigns

Food Protests

Industrial Armies

Rent Strikes

Unemployed Movements, 1930s

Unions of the Unemployed,1935-1941

Wages for Housework

Concepts

• American Exceptionalism

• Anarchism

• Anarchist Fiction, 1870-1914

• Animal Rights

• Anticommunism

• Antifascism

• Black Nation

• Chinese Question

• Cold War Revisionism

• Direct Action

• Dual Unionism

• Free Love

• Factions

• Fellow Travelers

• Free Thought

• Front Groups

• Historical Materialism

• General Strike

• Humor

• Labor Party

• Pacifism

• Parlor Socialists

• Participatory Democracy

• Popular Culture

• Popular Front

• Pre-Party Formations

• Progressive

• Realignment

• Red Diaper Baby

• Regroupment

• Secret Work

• Tendencies

• Union Reform/Labor Support

• Utopianism

• Vanguard Party

• Woman Question

• Workers’ Education

Cultural and Fraternal Movements, Organizations, and Concepts

American Artists Congress

American Writers Congress

Anarchist Fiction

Folk Music, 1930-1960s

Folk Music, 1970s-1990s

Futurians

International Workers Order

Jazz

John Reed Clubs

Jewish People’s Fraternal Order

Lehr- und Wehrvereine

Science Fiction and Fantasy

Sozialistischer Turnerbund

Summer Camps

Surrealism

Union Sponsored Radical Films

Workers Laboratory

Theater/Theater of Action

Workmen's Circle

Defense Cases/Institutions

American Committee for

Protection of Foreign

Born

Haymarket Incident

Herndon Case

Hiss Case

International Juridical Association

Bulletin

International Labor Defense

McNamara Case

Mooney-Billings Case

National Emergency Civil

Liberties Committee

National Lawyers Guild

Political Deportations

Rosenberg Case

Sacco-Vanzetti Case

Scottsboro Case

Smith Act Trial, 1943

Smith Act Trials, 1949

Workers Defense League