TY  - GEN
AU  - Weinstone,William W.
TI  - William W. Weinstone papers,
KW  - Belfrage, Cedric,
KW  - Blum, Emanuel
KW  - Flynn, Helen Gurly
KW  - Haessler, Gertrude,
KW  - Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,
KW  - Marx, Karl,
KW  - Rose, Peggy Weinstone
KW  - Rothstein, Andrew,
KW  - Weinstone, Laurie
KW  - Weinstone, Monette Solataroff
KW  - Communist Party of the United States of America
KW  - United States
KW  - Alien Registration Act, 1940
KW  - Arrest
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Communism
KW  - Communist trials
KW  - Conspiracy
KW  - Imprisonment
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Subversive activities
KW  - Trials (Political crimes and offenses)
KW  - Communists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Political scientists
N1  - Open to research; Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009153.3
ER  -