Max Naiman papers
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
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Chicago History Museum
Research Center1601 North Clark StreetChicago, IL 60614-6038
- Creator
- Max Naiman, American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born, Civil Rights Congress (U.S.), Civil Rights Congress of Illinois, Cook County Bar Association, Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, International Labor Defense, Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago, Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (Chicago, Ill.), National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Party of Illinois
- Bib number
- 00066462
- Title
- Max Naiman papers
- Dates
- 1923-1975
- Quantity
- 9 linear feet (22 boxes)
- Call number
- MSS Lot N
- Language
- English
Restriction(s)
This collection is open for research use.
Terms governing use
Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Provenance statement
Gift of Max Naiman (M1975.0235).
Please cite this collection as
Max Naiman papers (Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.
Collection Summary
Correspondence and career papers of Max R. Naiman, and a much larger lot of topical files that contain reports, fliers, brochures, mailings, and some correspondence relating to Naiman's role as a lawyer and staff member of the International Labor Defense (ILD); and to his participation or interest in the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Cook County Bar Association, Communist Party, Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago, National Lawyers Guild, Progressive Party of Illinois and other leftist, labor, and Jewish organizations in Chicago and elsewhere in the United States. Topics include Naiman's unsuccessful campaign for alderman of Chicago's 39th ward (1947, 1950) and the time he served on the resolutions committee and continuation committee of the Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1938). Other topics include Naiman's tenure as president of the Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago from 1964-1970.
Biographical/historical note
Max R. Naiman, a labor attorney, one-time Communist Party member, and leftist activist in Chicago (Ill.), characterized himself as "among the first and foremost in the most advanced outpost in the forward vanguard of the progressive movement and among the last in its rear guard." He was born on March 15, 1903, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Naiman. Jacob Naiman (d. February 13, 1964) immigrated to the United States from Grodno, Poland, and was joined in 1906 by his wife and son. The family settled on the northwest side of Chicago, where Jacob founded Northwest Rug and Carpet Cleaners. Jacob Naiman was a founder of the Congregation of Ezras Israel in Chicago, an Orthodox Jewish congregation.
Max Naiman did not complete high school. He left Chicago in 1918 and lived a vagabond life in the western United States. During these years, he was influenced by labor activists such as the Wobblies. Naiman told Studs Terkel: "I was a restless youth. In 1918, at the tender age of fourteen, I shocked and thrashed grain. I made three treks to the Western states. I worked the harvest fields of the Dakotas, Montana, and so on. I used to ride the rods and the blinds. I was a hostler in the freight yards of Idaho [where he serviced engines at the end of a run]. I met the Wobblies. I lived in jungles. They were great education centers."
Naiman resumed his formal education at the age of twenty-one and soon acquired the equivalent of a high school education through self-study and night classes at Hoffman Preparatory School. He passed a qualifying examination and was admitted to John Marshall Law School in June of 1932. He received his law degree and passed the federal and Illinois bar exams in 1933.
Interested in labor law, Naiman volunteered his legal services and later joined the paid legal staff of the International Labor Defense (ILD) in the spring of 1933. The ILD consist of twenty-eight attorneys who aided people penalized for working for workers' rights. Naiman said "The ILD would defend anyone engaged in struggle. As far as I know, it did not discriminate concerning one's politics. They would often refer to them as Communists. I never stopped to ask". As a lawyer and later chairman for the ILD, Naiman defended the rights of workers to organize, speak, publish freely, and assemble. Naiman stated that he "It was my practice in those days, trusting very few judges, to always demand a jury trial. The jury found my clients not guilty."
In 1938, Naiman was elected to the Resolutions Committee of the Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He later served on the Continuation Committee, which worked with trade unions in order to get jobs for volunteers returning from the Spanish Civil War.
Naiman served from 1946 to around 1951 as committeeman for the Progressive Party in Chicago's 39th ward. In 1947, he ran for alderman of the 39th ward and was defeated. In 1950, Naiman again ran, later withdrawing and casting his support for the incumbent alderman H.L. Brody.
Naiman was an active figure within Chicago's Jewish community. From 1964 to 1970 he was president of the Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago. For his dedicated service, Naiman received the Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago's Award of Honor in 1967.
Naiman was also a founding delegate to the Civil Rights Congress as well as a member of the Congress's legal staff and executive board. Lawyers' organizations in which Naiman participated included the National Lawyers Guild and the Cook County Bar of Illinois. It is also said that Naiman was the original after whom Richard Wright created the lawyer, Max, in his novel, Native Son. Naiman died ca. 1975.
Separated material
Separated materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Max Naiman photograph collection (M1975.0235). Publications and a Max Naiman 39th ward aldermanic campaign poster were transferred to the Library. Miscellaneous political campaign buttons; including several from the Communist Party and the Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade; plaques; and stickers were transferred to Decorative and Industrial Arts.
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Indexed Terms
- Naiman, Max, 1903-[1975]--Archives
- Davis, Angela.
- Lightfoot, Claude M.--1910-1991
- Antisemitism
- Communism--United States--20th Century
- Election districts--Illinois--Chicago--39th Ward
- Jewish leadership--Illinois--Chicago--20th Century
- Jews--Illinois--Chicago--20th Century
- Lawyers--Illinois--Chicago--20th Century
- Polish Americans--Illinois--Chicago--20th Century
- Prisoners--Civil rights
- Radicalism--20th Century
- Working Class--Illinois--Chicago--20th Century
- American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born
- Cook County Bar Association (Ill.)
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- International Labor Defense
- Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago
- Civil Rights Congress of Illinois
- Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (Chicago, Ill.)
- National Lawyers Guild
- Progressive Party of Illinois
- Smith Act Families Committee (Chicago, Ill.)
- Spain--Ejercito Popular de la Republica--Abraham Lincoln Battalion
- United States--Alien Registration Act, 1940.
- United States--Congress--House--Committee on Un-American Activities
- Albany park (Chicago, Ill.: Community area)
- Chicago (Ill.)--Politics and government--20th Century
- Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Participation, American
- United States--Politics and government--20th Century
- Announcements
- Correspondence
- Newsletters
- Newspaper clippings
- Pamphlets
- Reports
Organization and Arrangement of Collection
The collection is arranged in 2 series.
Series 1. Career papers, 1923-1974 (boxes 1-2)
Series 1 contains autobiographical materials, including a copy of the transcription of Studs Terkel's interview of Naiman for his book "Hard Times", (Random House, 1970), materials on Naiman's efforts to seek elective office, his legal work, and various other matters, along with some correspondence and membership cards. The correspondence in this series is sparse and routine. Correspondence, reports and printed material related to Naiman's unsuccessful bid in 1947 and 1950 to become alderman of the 39th ward (box 1). The series also contains hand written notes (box 2) by Naiman in 1957 for an unfinished autobiography. The series (boxes 1-2) is arranged alphabetically by topic.
Series 2. Topical files, 1929-1975 (boxes 3-22)
Series 2 contains reports, and printed material such as announcements, fliers, brochures, and newsletters issued by many labor, leftist, and Jewish organizations related to Max R. Naiman's career and his social and political interests on a local, national, and international level. The papers do not reveal if Naiman was an officer or just a member of the organizations. The series is arranged alphabetically by topic.
The files document a variety of Max R. Naiman's interests and activities, from his participation in left-wing and lawyers' organizations such as the Illinois Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Civil Rights Congress, Communist Party of Illinois, Cook County Bar Association, International Labor Defense (ILD), Jewish Cultural Club of Chicago, Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born, National Lawyers Guild, and the Progressive Party of Illinois to his effort to thwart racial and political repression. The papers chronicle issues such as the defense of Claude Lightfoot and Angela Davis. Naiman's prolonged fight to stop the Smith Act is also well documented.
Detailed list of contents of the collection
- Title
- Aldermanic campaign
- Dates
- 1946
- Title
- Aldermanic campaign
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Aldermanic campaign
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Aldermanic campaign
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Anti-Semitic mail
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Autobiographical notes
- Dates
- 1957
- Title
- Correspondence (alphabetical by correspondent): Maurice and Jeannette Braverman
- Dates
- 1953-1958
- Title
- Correspondence (alphabetical by correspondent): Scott Nearing
- Dates
- 1959
- Title
- Correspondence (alphabetical by correspondent): "Soviet Power", by Dean Johnson
- Dates
- 1941
- Title
- Correspondence (alphabetical by correspondent): Richard Wright & "Native Son"
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Correspondence (alphabetical by correspondent): George J. Zimmerman
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- Handwritten notes by Naiman
- Dates
- 1964-1974
- Title
- Legal case files
- Dates
- 1943
- Title
- Legal case files
- Dates
- 1947-1948
- Title
- Legal case files
- Dates
- 1951-1969
- Title
- Membership cards
- Dates
- 1923-1974
- Title
- Miscellaneous
- Dates
- 1933-1937
- Title
- Monthly appointment calendars
- Dates
- 1949-1957
- Title
- "Max Naiman" -poem, by Tenant Darlene Simpson
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Shirley Naiman correspondence
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- "Political Affairs of the 39th Ward of Chicago" report
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Transcript of interview of Naiman by Studs Terkel
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Illinois friends Support Group
- Dates
- 1939
- Title
- "AD-Hoc Bulletin Marxist-Leninist"
- Dates
- 1964-68
- Title
- African-American Heritage Association
- Dates
- 1966
- Title
- Albany Park Community (Chicago), Office of Civilian Defense
- Dates
- 1941-1942
- Title
- American Association of Combat Fascism, Racism and Anti-Semitism
- Dates
- 1940?
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: Chicago Conferences
- Dates
- 1951-1953
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born conferences
- Dates
- 1950-1953
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born memos to Local Council
- Dates
- 1949-1952
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born memos & statements of fact
- Dates
- 1949-1952
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born memos & statements of fact
- Dates
- 1949-1952
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: National Conference Against Deportation Hysteria (Detroit)
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born: National Conference to Repeal the Walter-McCarran Act
- Dates
- 1953
- Title
- American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born press releases
- Dates
- 1935
- Title
- American Forum
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- American Peace Conference
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- American Peace Crusade
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- American Youth for Democracy
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Anti-Nazi Winter Relief Committee
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Berman, Leo desk calendar
- Dates
- 1937-1938
- Title
- Berman, Leo desk calendar
- Dates
- 1939-1940
- Title
- Berman, Leo desk calendar
- Dates
- 1941-1942
- Title
- Black Panthers Emergency Conference Committee
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- B'nai B'rith, Lodge Number 72 (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Reuben Brainin Clinic Committee of Israel, Chicago Chapter
- Dates
- 1966
- Title
- Business, Professional, Veterans Committee for Aid to Strikers
- Dates
- 1946
- Title
- Chicago 39th Ward statistics
- Dates
- 1940
- Title
- Chicago Action Community Organization
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Chicago Area Committee to Free All Political Prisoners
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Chicago Area Draft Resisters
- Dates
- 1940?
- Title
- Chicago Bar Association
- Dates
- 1935
- Title
- Chicago Committee for a National Youth Assembly Against Universal Military Training
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Chicago Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Chicago Committee to Defend Democratic Rights
- Dates
- 1959
- Title
- Chicago Committee to Defend Democratic Rights
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Chicago Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg Case
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Chicago Consumers Cooperative
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Chicago Council of American-Soviet Friendship
- Dates
- 1948-1950
- Title
- Chicago Council of American-Soviet Friendship
- Dates
- 1951-1962
- Title
- Chicago Council of Lawyers
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Chicago Seven Trial
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Chicago Joint Defense Committee to Defeat the Smith Act
- Dates
- 1958
- Title
- Chicago Labor Conference for Peace
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Chicago Legal Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Chicago Legal Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Chicago Peace Action Coalition
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Chicago Peace Council
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Chicago Smith Act Families Committee
- Dates
- 1960
- Title
- Chicago Sobell Committee
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Citizens for Independent Political Action
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- Civil Liberties Reporter
- Dates
- 1950-1952
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1946-1947
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1948-1949
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1950-1951
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1952-1952
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago)
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) Brief on Contempt Procedure Before Special Federal Grand Juries
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) Committee to Free the Trenton Six
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) conference
- Dates
- 1946
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) conference notes
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) legal staff
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) legislation
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) Claude Lightfoot Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) Martinsville Seven
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) Willie McGee Case
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress (Chicago) newsletters
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Prisoners Relief Committee
- Dates
- 1951-1952
- Title
- Coalition for Human Rights
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Committee for the 33rd Anniversary of the Daily Worker
- Dates
- 1957
- Title
- Communist International
- Dates
- 1929
- Title
- Communist Party, U.S.A.
- Dates
- 1958-1974
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: Chicago Workers School
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: club discussion materials
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Daily Worker" Chicago circulation drives
- Dates
- 1953
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Daily World" Forum
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: Education and Literature Group
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: election campaign material (Chicago and national)
- Dates
- 1962
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "For a Lasting Peace"
- Dates
- 1948-1956
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Jewish Affairs"
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: manifesto
- Dates
- 1940?
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: meeting agenda
- Dates
- 1946-1947
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: membership manual
- Dates
- 1938
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: Middle East
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: Naiman's meeting notes
- Dates
- 1941-1949?
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: National Administrative Committee on the Twelve Party Declaration
- Dates
- 1957
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: National office publications
- Dates
- 1956-1973
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "19th Convention"
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: North Section Conference
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Party Affairs"
- Dates
- 1966-1972
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Party News"
- Dates
- 1940-1941
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: Political Committee minutes
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publications
- Dates
- 1943-1967
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publications
- Dates
- 1968-1969
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publications
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publications index
- Dates
- 1934-1939
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publications index
- Dates
- 1935-1940
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: publishing association
- Dates
- 1945?
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: "Trial of the Twelve"
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Communist Party U.S.A.: United States v. Sacher
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1948-1959
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1960-1966
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1968-1969
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Cook County Bar Association
- Dates
- 1974
- Title
- Cook County Special Bail Project
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Cosmopolitan Club Open Forum
- Dates
- 1935
- Title
- Angela Davis case, University of California-Berkeley: correspondence and notes
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Angela Davis case, University of California-Berkeley: Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Angela Davis case, University of California-Berkeley: miscellaneous
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Ben Davis
- Dates
- 1951-1956
- Title
- Decalogue Society of Lawyers
- Dates
- 1962-1972
- Title
- Decalogue Society of Lawyers
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Demonstrators, Inc.
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Eugene Dennis Case
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Dies Committee. U.S. Congress
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- W.E.B. DuBois Clubs
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Gladys Durham
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Elections (Chicago) 11th Ward
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Elections (Chicago) 40th Ward
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Elections (Chicago) 49th Ward
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Elections (Chicago) Jack Kling campaign
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- Dates
- 1956-1965
- Title
- Emergency Civil Liberties Committee
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Fair Play for Cuba Committee
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- Farming in Russia
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Morris Fleishman Testimonial Dinner Committee
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union of America
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- William Z. Foster
- Dates
- 1931-1960
- Title
- Freedom Democratic Clubs of Illinois
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Friends of Maria Clark
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Friendship Liberal League
- Dates
- 1958
- Title
- Gainesville Eight
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Gay liberation
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Gilbert Green Parole Campaign
- Dates
- 1958
- Title
- Gilbert Green and Henry Winston
- Dates
- 1954-1959
- Title
- Gill Green
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Gus Hall
- Dates
- 1954-1975
- Title
- Human Rights
- Dates
- 1952-1959
- Title
- Human Rights
- Dates
- 1960-1966
- Title
- Illinois Peace Assembly
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Illinois Rank and File Conference on Trade Union Action and Democracy
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- "International Affairs" Bulletin
- Dates
- 1957-1958
- Title
- International Labor Defender
- Dates
- 1935?
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): announcements, circulars, fliers
- Dates
- 1940-1946
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): correspondence and notes
- Dates
- 1940-1946
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): Legislative Letter
- Dates
- 1940
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): Logan department store strike
- Dates
- 1937
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): minutes
- Dates
- 1934-1937
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): news releases
- Dates
- 1940
- Title
- International Labor Defense (Chicago): reports and statements
- Dates
- 1937-1938
- Title
- International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) 65th anniversary publication
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- International Workers Order
- Dates
- 1945
- Title
- Independent Democrats
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Japanese-American Civil Liberties Anti-Detention Camp Committee (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- "Jewish Affairs"
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- "Jewish Affairs"
- Dates
- 1963
- Title
- "Jewish Affairs"
- Dates
- 1970-71
- Title
- "Jewish Appeal"
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Jewish-Black relations
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Jewish Community Centers of Chicago
- Dates
- 1960-1972
- Title
- Jewish Cultural Clubs of Chicago
- Dates
- 1957-1963
- Title
- Jewish Cultural Clubs of Chicago
- Dates
- 1964-1967
- Title
- Jewish Cultural Clubs of Chicago
- Dates
- 1968-1972
- Title
- Jewish Cultural Clubs of Chicago: Anti-Nazi activities
- Dates
- 1966
- Title
- Jewish Cultural Clubs of Chicago: City Committee
- Dates
- 1957-1972
- Title
- Jewish Defense League
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Jewish Fraternal Cemetery Association
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- Jewish organizations
- Dates
- 1947-1960
- Title
- Jewish People's Choral Society
- Dates
- 1948-1962
- Title
- John Marshall Law School Alumni Association
- Dates
- 1958-1975
- Title
- Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee
- Dates
- 1953
- Title
- Jones, Sidney: biographical sketch of a judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County
- Dates
- 1973?
- Title
- Kirkendoll, Robert, case
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Korea War, literature against
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Kutner, Luis
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Labor Literature (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1971?
- Title
- Labor Research Association
- Dates
- 1966
- Title
- Landlord-Tenant Law in Chicago
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Lawyers Action Committee to End the War
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Lawyers Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Legal Defense Education Fund
- Dates
- 1941-1951 & undated
- Title
- Legal issues
- Dates
- 1971-1972
- Title
- George N. Leighton case
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Claude Lightfoot case
- Dates
- 1964
- Title
- Lightfoot Committee
- Dates
- 1956
- Title
- Legislative Action
- Dates
- 1958
- Title
- Loyalty program memoranda
- Dates
- 1948-1952
- Title
- McCarran Act
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- Middle East
- Dates
- 1967
- Title
- Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born: announcements and fliers
- Dates
- 1951-1966 & undated
- Title
- Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born: conferences
- Dates
- 1951-1959
- Title
- Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born: press releases
- Dates
- 1952-1953
- Title
- Midwest Committee for Protection of Foreign-Born: statements and principles
- Dates
- 1949-1955
- Title
- Midwest Jewish Council
- Dates
- 1943-1956
- Title
- Miscellaneous
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Miscellaneous
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Modern Book Store (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1961
- Title
- "Morning Freiheit"
- Dates
- 1972
- Title
- Movement literature
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Mundt bill
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Dates
- 1949-1950
- Title
- National Bar Association
- Dates
- 1962-1970
- Title
- National Bar Association
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- National Bar Association
- Dates
- 1972-1974
- Title
- National Committee to Combat Nazism
- Dates
- 1965
- Title
- National Conference of Union Labor Legionnaires
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- National Coordinating Committee for Trade Union Action and Democracy
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- National Committee to Abolish the Un-American Activities Committee
- Dates
- 1974
- Title
- National Jewish Commission
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- National Labor Conference for Peace
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild annual convention (Chicago)
- Dates
- 1951
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: Civil Rights Committee
- Dates
- 1946
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: Civil Rights Committee minutes
- Dates
- 1946
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild class action suit
- Dates
- 1953
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild constitution
- Dates
- 1941, 1946
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild convention material
- Dates
- 1940-1972
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild convention speeches and papers
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- 1941-1950
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild correspondence
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- 1934-1973
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild executive board minutes and notes
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- 1950-1951
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: House Un-American Activities Commission
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- 1950
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild internal debate material
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- 1968-1972
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild issue-oriented papers
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- 1950-1972
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild legal worker
- Dates
- 1970?
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild mailing list
- Dates
- 1950?
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild memoranda and announcements
- Dates
- 1938-1972
- Title
- Dates
- Size
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild memoranda and announcements
- Dates
- 1943-1974
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild miscellaneous papers
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: Naiman, personal data form
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: National Executive Board announcements and minutes
- Dates
- 1971-1972
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild newsletter
- Dates
- 1954-1974
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild notes on report on trial of the "Twelve"
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild office
- Dates
- 1947-1973
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild pamphlets
- Dates
- 1960-1964
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild reports by the National Lawyers Guild
- Dates
- 1940-1951
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild resolutions
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild: Sixth annual conference
- Dates
- 1943
- Title
- National Lawyers Guild statements
- Dates
- 1947-1971
- Title
- National Rank and File Action Conference
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- New Committee for Publications newsletter
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- New York Labor
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Newspaper clippings
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- North Carolina
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- undated
- Title
- North Shore School for Jewish Studies
- Dates
- 1968
- Title
- Northwest Side Community Center
- Dates
- 1942
- Title
- Peace Activities and Organizations (Chicago)
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Ted Pearson case
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Political Action
- Dates
- 1956
- Title
- Powell-Schuman Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1955
- Title
- Prague newsletter
- Dates
- 1951-1953
- Title
- Prague newsletter
- Dates
- 1951-1953
- Title
- Progressive Lawyers Club of Chicago
- Dates
- 1936
- Title
- Progressive Citizens of America
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Progressive Citizens of America
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: agendas and minutes
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: annual convention
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: bulletins and newsletters
- Dates
- 1948-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: Cook County Central Committee minutes
- Dates
- 1948-1950
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: correspondence
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: fliers
- Dates
- 1947-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: Lawyers Committee on Housing: Rent Control
- Dates
- 1942
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: memoranda
- Dates
- 1947-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: miscellaneous
- Dates
- 1947-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: miscellaneous
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: petitions
- Dates
- 1948 & undated
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: press releases
- Dates
- 1947-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: public relations technique guides
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: publications
- Dates
- 1947-1952
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: resolutions
- Dates
- 1950
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: 39th Ward organization minutes
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: 39th Ward Organization: Naiman's correspondence
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: 39th Ward Organization: Naiman's correspondence
- Dates
- undated
- Title
- Progressive Party of Illinois: Wallace for President Committee
- Dates
- 1948
- Title
- Provisional Committee to Aid Victims of Taft-Hartley
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- 1958
- Title
- Pryor v. Towomey
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- Radicals Against Poverty
- Dates
- 1970
- Title
- Red Man's International Warrior Society
- Dates
- 1973
- Title
- St. Louis Emergency Defense Committee
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Smith Act general information
- Dates
- 1954
- Title
- Smith Act trial report
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Smith Act victims
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Social Action Report
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- 1950?
- Title
- South Side Community Arts Center
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Soviet Culture
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- 1951-1954
- Title
- Spain, publications about
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- 1954
- Title
- Trotskyism
- Dates
- 1947
- Title
- United Farm Workers
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- undated
- Title
- Unions, publications about
- Dates
- 1949
- Title
- Veterans for Peace in Vietnam
- Dates
- 1969
- Title
- Westbrook
- Dates
- 1952
- Title
- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
- Dates
- 1971
- Title
- Women's Organization
- Dates
- 1967, 1970
- Title
- "Workers Lyceum"
- Dates
- 1942
- Title
- World Youth Festival
- Dates
- 1959
- Title
- Wounded Knee Legal Defense
- Dates
- 1974
- Title
- Young Workers Liberation League
- Dates
- 1971