Archive for the 'Communists' Category
Civil Rights and the CPUSA
• January 15, 2018 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, African American History, American left artists, book art, Civil Rights Movement, CLara Helena Palacio Luca, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FDR, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, graphic designers, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, library donors, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, programs, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1939-1945), World War II
Tags: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Angelo Herndon, Atlanta (Georgia), Benjamin Jefferson Davis Jr., Black "Reds", Black Communist, Booker T. Washington, Chain gangs, civil rights activists, Communist Party candidates, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), Dixiecrats, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Federal Anti-Lynching bill, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), First Ladies, foreclosures, Georgia Insurrection Law, hobos, Hunter Pitts ("Jack") O'Dell, James W. Ford, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, legal cases, lynchings, mass demonstrations, Nathaniel Candelario, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Paul Robeson, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), President John F. Kennedy, Rape trials, Richard Wright, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Sharecroppers, Socialists, South Side Community Art Center (Chicago), Stanley Levison, Tenant farmers, The Daily Worker (periodical), The Negro Liberator (newspaper), Tom Mooney, Tuskegee airmen, Unemployment Council, vagrancy
New Deal Ephemera
• October 5, 2017 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Blue eagle, CCC, Christopher DeNoon, Civil Rights Movement, Civilian Conservation Corps, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, FIU, FIU community, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, Great Depression, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, NRA, NYA, persuasive arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), stickers, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, visual thinking strategies, VTS, war propaganda, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War (1939-1945), World War II, WWII
Tags: 1936, Advertisements, aGatherin', Blue eagle (thunderbird) campaign, Broadsides, bulletins, calendars, campaign stickers, capitalism, Chain gangs, Christopher DeNoon, civil rights, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Clara Helena Palacio Luca, Communists, Comrade Gulliver, Diane de Blois, Display cards, electric chairs, ephemera, Ephemera Society of America, fans, FDR, Federal Music Project (FMP), Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gabriel Over the White House, Great Depression, Hurricane Irma, jobs, Junior Seminar, Kara Accettola, Leonard A. Lauder, Little Sages Books, lynchings, Lynton Gardiner, Martijn F. Lecoultre, Movie Makers (periodical), National Recovery Administration (NRA), National Youth Administration (NYA), Negro Songs of Protest (song book), New Deal, Pamphlets, pennants, Photomontage, portfolio plates, posters, Public Works Administration (PWA), racism, rare books, rare periodicals, Robert Dalton Harris, Rosie the Riveter, Rural Electrification Administration (REA), Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), Second World War, sharecropping, Sheet music covers, Socialists, song books, Sound recordings, Supreme Court rulings, Swastikas, Tamiami Trail, tanks (military science), The Christopher DeNoon Collection for the Study of New Deal Culture, voting patterns, Women war workers, work, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Recent Florida International University Class Visits to The Wolfsonian Library
• February 10, 2017 • 1 CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, African American History, American left artists, American war propaganda, Artists, book art, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gender, gifts, graphic arts, graphic designers, History Department, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), International Labor Defense (ILD), leftist artists, Leonard A. Lauder, library donors, Lin Shi Khan, Lynd Ward (1905-1985), memorabilia, museums, Nazi propaganda, New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, posters, prohibition, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, racism, school visits to The Wolfsonian, Scottsboro Trial, Soviet Union, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, trains, war propaganda, Wolfsonian, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, women, World War II
Tags: 1930s, Adolf Hitler, African-Americans, anti-lynching campaigns, Autobahn, Blues, Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) International Labor Defense (ILD), Great Depression, Harlem Renaissance, highways, infrastructure construction, Jazz, lynchings, memory, New Deal, New Negro, race, Race trials, racism, railways, roads, Scottsboro Trial (Alabama), stereotypes, U.S. One
TROUBLED U.S.-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, FROM 1917 TO TODAY: A WOLFSONIAN REFLECTION
• December 30, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in Communism, Communists, Constructivism, donations, First World War (1914-1918), Francis Xavier Luca, graphic arts, graphic designers, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., persuasive arts, political art, postcards, posters, propaganda, propaganda arts, propaganda posters, rare books and special collections library, Russia, Soviet Union, Steve Heller, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU library, World War (1914-1918), World War I, WWI
Tags: Alexander Kerensky, American intervention, Barrack Obama, Bolsheviks, C.I.A., cartoons, Cyberattacks, destabilization, diplomacy, Donald Trump, First World War (1914-1918), hacking, John Reed's 10 Days That Shook the World, Leon Trotsky, Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), Mitchell Wolfson Jr., propaganda, Propaganda posters, Provisional Government (Russia), regime change, ROSTA, Russian Civil War, Russian revolution, Russian Telegraph Agency (St. Petersburg Russia), sanctions, Sergey V. Lavrov, Soviet Union, U.S. presidential election (November 2016), U.S.-Russian relations, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Vlacheslav Polonskii (1886-1932), Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Vladimir Ivanovich Lebedev (1894-1966), Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, World War I
Long Shot: Populist Politician and Presidential Contender Huey Pierce Long Assassinated This Day In History
• September 8, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, American left artists, Artists, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, exhibitions, Fascism, Great Depression, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, New Deal era, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, rare books and special collections library, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: assassinations, bridges, crown of thorns, demogogues, Every Man A King (campaign song), Francis Xavier Luca, governors, Great Depression, highways, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Ku Klux Klan, library installations, Louisiana, Populists, presidential contenders, presidential elections, Senators, Share Our Wealth society, The Politics of -Isms (library installation)
Sacco and Vanzetti Executed on This Day in History: A Wolfsonian Reflection
• August 23, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, American left artists, Communists, Francis Xavier Luca, leftist artists, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian library exhibits, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Anarchism, Anarchists, Bartolomeo Vanzetti (1888-1927), Death penalty cases, electric chair, exhibition installations, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), Italian-American immigrants, Luigi Galleani (1861-1931), Nicola Sacco (1891-1927), Peppino Mangravite (1896-1978), Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), Sacco and Vanzetti, Slater and Morrill Shoe Company robbery (1920), Trials, Wall Street bombing (Sept. 16 1920), Webster Thayer (1857-1933), Wolfsonian-FIU library installations
Political Isms: A New Wolfsonian Library Installation Opens To the Public
• August 18, 2016 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1930s, Adolf Hitler caricatures, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, antisemitism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, Fascism, FDR, Francis Xavier Luca, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., New Deal, New Deal (1933-1939), New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, propaganda, propaganda arts, The Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian staff, Wolfsonian-FIU library, Wolfsonian-FIU library exhibitions
Tags: Charles Edward Coughlin (1891-1979), Communism, Demagogues, Fascism, Father Coughlin, Francis Townsend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), Gerald L. K. Smith, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), isms, National Union for Social Justice, Nazism, presidential elections, Share the Wealth movement, Socialism, the "radio priest", William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
