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Title: Joseph Freeman papers
Date (inclusive): 1904-1966
Collection Number: 80159
Creator: Freeman, Joseph, 1897-1965.
Collection Size: 187 manuscript boxes, 3 card file boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 slide box, 1 album box, 40 envelopes, 2 phonorecords (81.4 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Writings, correspondence, printed matter, notes, and photographs, relating to the
relation between communism and art and literature, and to communism in the United States,
Mexico, and the Soviet Union.
Language:
English.
Box 191 closed. Use copies available.
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[Identification of item], Joseph Freeman papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1980.
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Communism.
Communism--Mexico.
Communism--United States.
Communism and art.
Communism and literature.
Mexico.
Soviet Union.
Russia (Federation)
United States--Politics and government.
Journalists.
Slides (Photography)
Phonorecords.
| 1897, October 9 | Born, Piratin, Poltawa, Ukraine |
| 1904 | Emigrated to the United States |
| 1919 | A.B., Columbia University |
| 1920-1921 | Reporter, Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News (in Paris and London) |
| 1921-1923 | Assistant Editor, Liberator |
| 1924 | Publicity Director, American Civil Liberties Union |
| 1925 | Author, Dollar Diplomacy (with Scott Nearing) |
| 1925-1931 | Correspondent for Tass (intermittent) |
| 1926 | Co-founder and Editor, New Masses |
| 1926-1927 | Trip to Russia as New Masses Moscow correspondent |
| 1929 | Trip to Mexico as New Masses Mexico correspondent Married Ione Robinson |
| 1930 | Author, Voices of October (with Joshua Kunitz and Louis Lozowick) |
| 1931-1933 | Editor, New Masses |
| 1931-1933 | Speaking and fund-raising trips in the United States for the John Reed Clubs and the Communist Party, including accompanying Boris Pilynak to Hollywood (1931) and Henri Barbusse on a tour of the Midwest (1933) |
| 1932 | Author, The Soviet Worker |
| 1932 | Divorced Ione Robinson |
| 1934 | Co-founder, Partisan Review |
| 1936 | Author, American Testament |
| 1936-1937 | Editor, New Masses |
| 1937 | Attended Mexican Writers Conference as delegate of the League of American Writers |
| 1938 | Married Charmion von Wiegand |
| 1939 | Left the Communist Party |
| 1940-1942 | Publicity Director, American Civil Liberties Union |
| 1943 | Author, Never Call Retreat |
| 1943-1945 | Researcher, Information Please (radio show), including a U.S.O. tour in the summer of 1945 |
| 1947 | Author, The Long Pursuit |
| 1948 | Publicity Director, Poet's Theatre |
| 1948-1952 | Staff member, Edward L. Bernays (public relations firm) |
| 1953-1961 | Staff member, Executive Research, Inc. (public relations firm) |
| 1965 August 8 | Died, New York City |