Radicals and Reactionaries: Extremism in America
• October 30, 2019 • Leave a CommentPosted in 1920s, 1930s, Alabama, American left artists, Anti-Nazi propaganda, anti-Semitism, Children's propaganda books, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, curators, displays, donations, Fascism, FIU students, Florida International University, Florida International University students, Francis Xavier Luca, gifts, History Department, Hugo Gellert, Hugo Gellert (1892-1985), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., museums, Nazi propaganda, Nazism, New Deal era, persuasive arts, political art, Popular Front, propaganda arts, racism, rare books and special collections library, Scottsboro Trial, student curators, Student exhibit, The Wolfsonian Library, totalitarian, Wolfsonian library
Tags: Black Legion, caricatures, Communist Front, Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), dictators, Father Charles Coughlin, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), Hugo Gellert, Humphrey Bogart, James W. Ford, Jim Crowism, Karl Liebknecht, Ku Klux Klan, Langston Hughes, lynchings, NAACP, Nazi sympathizers, New Pioneer (magazine), poets, Popular Front, Scottsboro Boys, Scottsboro Trial, Spartacus Uprising (1919), W. E. B. DuBois, William Randolph Hearst, Young Pioneers, youth movements
COMMUNIST AGITATION, LABOR STRIFE, AND NEW DEAL LEGISLATION: SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS
• November 19, 2011 • 1 CommentPosted in acquisitions, collectors, Communism, Communist Party of the United States, Communist Party of the United States of America, Communists, donations, FAP, FDR, Federal One, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), FIU, Florida International University, Great Depression, John Heartfield (1891-1968), leftist artists, library donors, Mitchell Wolfson Jr., Popular Front, rare books and special collections library, Soviet Union, The Bonus March, theatrical producers, veterans, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian museum library, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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YOUNG @ ♥ NY: THE WOLFSONIAN TO LOAN ITEMS TO AN EXHIBITION ON CHILDREN AT MoMA
• June 3, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in children's books, Children's propaganda books, Wolfsonian library, Wolfsonian library collection, Wolfsonian-FIU exhibitions, Wolfsonian-FIU library
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