Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U. - New York Times

Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U. - New York Times: "Communist Party USA Gives Its History to N.Y.U.
Michael Falco for The New York Times

The vast collection from the Communist Party USA includes personal letters, smuggled directives and photographs.



By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: March 20, 2007

The songwriter, labor organizer and folk hero Joe Hill has been the subject of poems, songs, an opera, books and movies. His will, written in verse the night before a Utah firing squad executed him in 1915 and later put to music, became part of the labor movement’s soundtrack. Now the original copy of that penciled will is among the unexpected historical gems unearthed from a vast collection of papers and photographs never before seen publicly that the Communist Party USA has donated to New York University."