Weinstone, William W. (William Wolf) 1897-1985 creator mixed material monographic eng 11,500 33 13.2 Family and personal correspondence, speeches and writings, notes and notebooks, and subject files documenting Weinstone's role as a founding member of the Communist Party of the United States of America in 1919 and as an educator promoting its ideology, chiefly from 1937 to 1985. Includes material on the writings of Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and Karl Marx, labor history, civil rights protest and radicalist movements, and the history of the party. Also documented are Weinstone's arrest and conviction with twelve others of conspiracy to advocate violent overthrow of the government (violation of the Smith Act, Title 1 of the Alien Registration Act of 1940), and his subsequent two-year incarceration. Family correspondents include his first wife, Gertrude Haessler, and their daughter, Peggy Weinstone Rose; and his second wife, Monette Solataroff Weinstone, and their daughter, Laurie Weinstone. Other correspondents include Cedric Belfrage, Emanuel Blum, Helen Gurly Flynn, and Andrew Rothstein. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Pamphlet collection transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Photographs and posters transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Founder of the Communist Party of the United States of America. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153 Belfrage, Cedric 1904- Correspondence Blum, Emanuel Correspondence Flynn, Helen Gurly Correspondence Haessler, Gertrude 1894-1975 Correspondence Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich 1870-1924 Marx, Karl 1818-1883 Rose, Peggy Weinstone Correspondence Rothstein, Andrew 1898-1994 Correspondence Weinstone, Laurie Correspondence Weinstone, Monette Solataroff Correspondence Communist Party of the United States of America. United States. Arrest United States Civil rights movements United States Communism United States Communist trials United States Conspiracy United States Imprisonment United States Radicalism United States Subversive activities United States Trials (Political crimes and offenses) United States Communists Political scientists mm 96083871 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 960813 20260227111725.0 mm 96083871