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Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations collection
HLL.2019.041
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Contributing Institution:
Holt Labor Library at CSU Dominguez Hills
Title: Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations collection
Creator:
Young People's Socialist League
Creator:
Young Communist International
Creator:
Young Communist League of the U.S.
Creator:
American Student Union
Identifier/Call Number: HLL.2019.041
Physical Description:
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1920-1959, 1970, undated
Abstract: The collection comprises subject files related to or published by socialist and communist youth organizations including Young
People's Socialist League; Internationalist Socialist Youth; Young Communist International; Young Communist League; and American
Student Union. It includes leaflets; resolutions; bulletins; pamphlets; reports; bulletins; and one song book.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
The collection comprises subject files that include leaflets, resolutions, bulletins, pamphlets, reports, bulletins, and one
song book.
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The Socialist and Communist Youth Organizations Collection was donated to the Holt Labor Library in San Francisco, California
between 1992 and 2019, and was acquired by the Gerth Archives and Special Collections at California State University, Dominguez
Hills, in 2019.
There are no access restrictions on this collection.
The collection is alphabetically arranged in one series.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Director of Archives
and Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
materials and not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Allison Ransom processed the collection and wrote the finding aid in March 2020.
The Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), 1907-1972, was the youth organization of the Socialist Party of America; International
Communist Youth (ICY), 1919-1943, was the youth organization of the Communist International (Comintern); American Student
Union (ASU), 1935-1941, was an anti-war student organization comprising socialist and communist members.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Communism
Socialism
Fourth International