Women's lives
Subtitle: Series 1 : The papers of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn : from the holdings of Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University
Publisher: Primary Source Microfilm
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Woodbridge, CT
Language: eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 33
Subjects: Sources; Women labor leaders; Women and socialism; Women political activists; Communist Party of the United States of America
Other titles: Papers of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Notes: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was an agitator and organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World and a Communist party activist. In an era when street life and mass strikes were important in people's lives, Flynn's notoriety was like that given to media stars today. Flynn was indicted and convicted with other party leaders under the Smith Act, which made it illegal to advocate the overthrow of the government by force. While awaiting jail in 1955 she wrote Rebel Girl, an account of her early life. In 1961, Flynn became the first female national chair of the Communist party. She died in the Soviet Union where she had gone to write and rest and was given an elaborate state funeral.

Tamiment Library collection numbers 118 and 224.

Accompanied by a printed reel guide.

The collection is organized into eight series: Family and early life, 1896-1907; The Rebel Girl and the Industrial Workers of the World, 1907-1917; Defense activities, 1917-1927; Sojourn in the West, 1927-1936; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's "second life," 1937-1952; Smith Act Defense, 1951-1955; Alderson, 1955-1957; Final years, 1957-1964.