Descriptive Summary
	Creator:	Allen, James S.
	Title:	Papers
	Dates:	1920-1986, (Bulk 1945-1970).
	Abstract:	James S. Allen, born Sol Auerbach (1906-1986), was an organizer, Marxist scholar, writer and editor for the Communist Party, USA. He was a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and was in the first American student delegation to the Soviet Union. In 1928, he joined the Communist Party and began writing for the Daily Worker. He was a leading party organizer in the south in the early 1930s, and edited the Labor Defender and Southern Worker. In the late 1930's, he travelled to the Phillippines where he helped to arrange the merger of the socialist and Communist parties. His books include: The Negro Question in the United States (1936), Atomic Energy and Society (1949), and Organizing in the Depression South: A Communist's Memoir (2001). From 1962 to 1972, Allen also headed International Publishers, the CPUSA publishing house. The collection includes his correspondence, Communist Party documents, and scrapbooks.
	Quantity:	7.5 linear feet (8 boxes)
	Call Phrase:	Tamiment 142

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Historical/Biographical Note

James S. Allen (1906-1986), an organizer, Marxist scholar, writer and editor for the Communist Party, USA, was born Sol Auerbach in Philadelphia in 1906, the year his parents, Jacob and Luba, who were Russian Jewish radicals, came to the U.S. A doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, he traveled in 1927 with the first American student delegation to the Soviet Union. In 1928 he was expelled from college for his radical activities, joined the Communist Party and began writing for the Daily Worker, and edited the Labor Defender. In 1930, he took the pen name by which he became known and, with his wife Isabel, founded and edited the Southern Worker, the first Communist weekly published in the South, which was circulated on an underground basis. As a member of the Party's Southern District committee, Allen played a prominent role in all of the CPUSA's major regional activities during the early 1930s; the organizing of Alabama sharecroppers, the Harlan, Kentucky miners' strike and the Scottsboro case.

Three books by Allen, The Negro Question in the United States (1936), Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy (1937), and American Communism and Black Americans (with Philip Foner, 1987), reflect his political concerns and southern experiences. By 1931, the strain of underground political work caused Allen to leave the South. In the late 1930s he was CPUSA representative in the Philippines, and a correspondent for The Nation (per a letter by editor Max Lerner), where he helped obtain the release of Communist prisoners and helped achieve the merger of the Communist and Socialist Parties. He served as foreign editor of the Daily Worker until being drafted in 1944.

During the Cold War years, he served as foreign editor of the Sunday Worker and was compelled to appear as a witness before the House Un-American Activities Committee. During the years 1958-1966, Allen was the secretary of the Party's National Program Committee, which was charged with developing a new program for the CPUSA, and he authored the initial drafts of the program, which was not published until 1970, and corresponded with prominent communists including Herbert Aptheker, William Z. Foster, John Howard Lawson, Pettis Perry and Al Richmond. From 1962 to 1972 Allen headed International Publishers, the CPUSA publishing house, having assisted his predecessor Alexander Trachtenberg, over the previous decades. He later served as U.S. editor of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels, a joint undertaking with English and Soviet publishers, corresponding with the British Marxist philosopher Maurice Cornforth. Allen also wrote several polemical books and pamphlets, including Atomic Energy and Society (1949), which elicited a signed letter from Albert Einstein, and several unpublished manuscripts, including a memoir titled "Visions and Revisions," a portion of which was posthumously published as Organizing in the Depression South: A Communist's Memoir (2001).

James Allen Bibliography : Books & Pamphlets

American Communism and Black Americans : A Documentary History, 1919-1929, edited by Philip S. Foner and James S. Allen (Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1987), 235 p.

The American Negro (New York : International Pamphlets, 1932), 31p.

Atomic Energy and Society (New York, International Publishers, 1949), 95 p.

Atomic Imperialism: The State, Monopoly, and the Bomb (New York, International Publishers, 1952), 288 p.

The Cartel System, (New York : International Publishers, c1946), 32 p.

Conference on Managed Economy, The Cold War and the Developing Economic Crisis, 1949: Jefferson School of Social Science, New York, The economic crisis and the cold war; reports, edited by James S. Allen and Doxey A. Wilkerson, with an introductory essay by William Z. Foster (New York, New Century Publishers, 1949), 113 p.

The Crisis in India, (New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1942), 31 p.

Disarmament and the American Economy : A Symposium, James S. Allen, et al, edited by Herbert Aptheker (New York : New Century Publishers, 1960), 64 p.

The Economic Crisis and the Cold War, edited by James S. Allen and Doxey A. Wilkerson: with an introductory essay by William Z. Foster (New York: New Century Publishers, 1949), 113 p.

The Lessons of Cuba, (New York : New Century Publishers, 1961), 31 p.

Marshall Plan : Recovery or War, (New York : New Century Publishers, 1948), 64 p.

Negro Liberation, (New York : International Publishers, 1938), 46 p.

The Negro Question in the United States (New York, International Publishers, 1936), 224 p..

The Negroes in a Soviet America (New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1935), 46 p. By James W. Ford and James S. Allen.

On Democratic Centralism : Name and Form, (S.l. : s.n., 19-), 6 p.

Organizing in the Depression South : A Communist's Memoir, (Minneapolis, Minn.: MEP Publications, 2001), 145 p.

The Philippine Left on the Eve of World War II, foreword by William Pomeroy, 2nd ed., (Minneapolis : MEP Publications, 1993), 167 p.

The Radical Left on the Eve of War : A Political Memoir Quezon City, Philippines : Foundation for Nationalist Studies, 1985), 121 p.

Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy (1865-1876) (New York, International Publishers, 1937), 256 p.

Smash the Scottsboro Lynch Verdict (New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1933), 16 p.

Thomas Paine : Selections from his Writings, with an introduction, by James S. Allen (New York: International Publishers, 1937), 96 p.

The United States and the Common Market (New York : New Century Publishers, 1962), 36 p.

Who Owns America? (New York, New Century Publishers, 1946), pamphlet.

World Cooperation for Post-War Prosperity (New York, New Century publishers, 1945), 63 p.

World Monopoly and Peace (New York, International Publishers 1946), 288 p.

James Allen Bibliography : Articles

"America and neutrality," National issues: A survey of politics and legislation, 1 (1939), 13-16.

"American imperialism and the war," Communism, 18 (1939), 1046-1053.

"The American road to Socialism," Political Affairs, 37 (1958), 8-27.

"Awakening in the cotton belt," New Masses, 8 (1932), 11-12.

"The black belt: area of Negro majority," Communist, 13 (1934), 581-599.

"Bretton Woods and world security," Communist, 23 (1944), 1078-1086.

"The Communist way out," Crisis, 42 (1935), 134-135.

"Democratic revival and the Marxists," Masses & Mainstream, 8 (1955), 1-11.

"Enlightened American imperialism in the Philippines," Political Affairs, 25 (1946), 526-540.

"The far eastern front in the war against the axis," Communist, 21 (1942), 143-162.

"Farm production for defense," Communist, 20 (1941), 910-916.

"The farmers and the struggle against the war program," Communist, 19 (1940), 628-648.

"Lenin and the American Negro," Communist, 13 (1934), 53-61.

"The Negro question," Political Affairs, 25 (1946), 1132-1150.

"The new state in the Far East," Political Affairs, 24 (1945), 441-447.

"The new war economy," Political Affairs, 27 (1948), 1055-1074.

"The Pacific front in the global war," Communist, 21 (1942), 1012-1020.

"The policy of anti-Soviet encirclement," Political Affairs, 26 (1947), 563-570.

"Problems of foreign policy," Political Affairs, 36 (1957), 19-31.

"Prologue to the liberation of the Negro," Communist, 12 (1933), 147-170.

"The Scottsboro struggle," Communist, 12 (1933), 437-448.

"Some lessons of the fateful decade," Communist, 22 (1943), 258-265.

"The Soviet nations and Teheran," Communist, 23 (1944), 206-216.

"We can win in 1943," Communist, 22 (1943), 680-687.

"The world assembly at San Francisco," Political Affairs, 24 (1945), 291-301.

Allen wrote the initial draft for the following works, and played a leading role in the Communist Party's Program Committee, which was responsible for drafting them --

Communist Party of the United States of America, New program of the Communist Party, U. S.A.; a draft (New York, Political Affairs Publishers, 1966), 127 p.

Communist Party of the United States of America, New program of the Communist Party U.S.A. (New York, New Outlook Publishers, 1970), 128 p.

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Scope and Content Note

The Biographical & Correspondence series is divided into two subseries, alphabetical and chronological, and principally consists of correspondence. Notable are a file of 1938 correspondence between Allen and his wife, much of it written during his trip to the Philippines, correspondence with William Z. Foster, who sought Allen's advice re his writings, a polemical exchange with Hyman Lumer, regarding his War Economy and Crisis (1954), correspondence with Japanese Marxist publisher Takeshi "Fred" Haga, some of Allen's student writings, and a file on his dismissal in 1928 from his position as a philosophy instructor at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Program Committee series contains, in addition to numerous drafts authored and/or edited by Allen, correspondence with prominent communists, minutes and other Committee documents, notes taken at CP National Executive Committee Meetings (1960), a brief unpublished typescript by William Z. Foster "Notes on the Communist Party Electoral Policy" (1958) with annotations by Allen, and programmatic materials of other communist parties.

The FOIA series contains some 1500 pages of FBI files (received in the 1980s) which document Allen's activities in the 1950s.

The Philippines series contains Allen's lengthy 1939 report on his work there, accompanying notes and documents, his correspondence re arrangements for his trip, subsequent correspondence, much of it regarding the writing and publication of Allen's The Radical Left on the Eve of War (1985), some correspondence with William J. Pomeroy, a Communist and author of several books about the Philippines, an untitled thesis by Antonio S. Araneta, Jr. (c1965) on the history of Communism in the Philippines, and an untitled anonymous book-length typescript on the same subject (possibly by Allen).

The Subject files contain notes, journals and other materials from Allen's trips to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (1960-61), and various documents, ephemera, research materials and notes, mostly on post-WWII economic and political topics, although there is some material from Allen's time in the South. The file on the Cuban Revolution contains a lengthy report by Allen dated November, 1957. A notable file, Agrarian Commission (CPUSA), contains letters (including several from sharecroppers), minutes (attendees included Puro, Haywood, Ware), position statements, reports, and other internal documents describing local farm organizing conditions in the South and the Midwest in the early 1930s.

The Writings series contains manuscripts and typescripts of unpublished, and some published works, in some cases along with relevant correspondence, notes and research materials, and is organized into four subseries. Subseries A. The Negro Question in the U.S., contains book reviews, post-WWII Black Belt statistical data and calculations, a partial typescript for a proposed revised edition, several unpublished essays from the 1950s, CP Negro Commission meeting notes and reports by Allen, James Jackson, and Doxey Wilkerson, and the proceedings of a 1956 Conference on The South, organized by the Jefferson School. Subseries B. Organizing in the Depression South, contains a partial typescript, originally written as part of (subseries C), "Visions and Revisions," Allen's unpublished autobiographical typescript, which contains chapters on his early years, travels to the Philippines and the Soviet Union, and his publishing career. Subseries D. Other Writings, contains numerous brief, mostly unpublished typescripts from the late 1920s through the early 1980s. Many deal with the debates over Party policy and theory in the 1945-60 era (critiques of Earl Browder and John Gates); others cover various topics including current events, political economy, the Soviet Union, and the developing countries, including an interview with the former leader of the Cuban Communist Party, Blas Roca (1978). There are also book contracts and reviews, memorial portraits of prominent communists, and publishing correspondence for American Communism and Black Americans (1987), Atomic Imperialism (1952), and Reconstruction (1937).

The last series consists of photocopies of six thick scrapbooks, and three sets of oversized charts. The first four scrapbooks contain Allen's articles in the Communist press, almost all from the Daily Worker and The Communist/Political Affairs (1928-1967), the fifth contains reviews of his books (1936-1962), and the last commemorates his 60th birthday. The charts contain Black Belt county population data, 1860-1950, and were compiled by Allen from U.S. Census figures.

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Arrangement
	Organized into seven series: 1. Biographical & Correspondence; 2. Communist Party, USA. New Program Committee; 3. FOIA files; 4. Philippines; 5. Subject files; 6. Writings; 7. Scrapbooks & Charts.
	Folders are generally arranged alphabetically within each series. A portion of the correspondence is arranged chronologically.

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Separated Material

There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research without restrictions.

Use Restrictions

There may be some restrictions on the use of the collection. For more information, contact
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4225
E-mail: gail.malmgreen@nyu.edu

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Access Points
	Subject Names:
		Allen, James S.
		Aptheker, Herbert, 1915-
		Auerbach, Isabel.
		Auerbach, Jacob.
		Auerbach, Luba.
		Cornforth, Maurice Campbell.
		Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
		Foster, William Z., 1881-1961.
		Gates, John, 1913-
		Haga, Takeshi.
		Jackson, James.
		Lawson, John Howard, 1894-
		Lumer, Hyman.
		Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 --Collected works.
		Perry, Pettis.
		Pomeroy, William J., 1916-
		Richmond, Al, 1913-1987.
		Roca Calderio, Blas.
		Wilkerson, Doxey Alphonso, 1905-
	Subject Organizations:
		Communist Party of the United States of America. Agrarian Commission.
		Communist Party of the United States of America. National Program Committee.
		Communist Party of the United States of America. Negro Commission.
		International Publishers.
		United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
	Subject Topics:
		African Americans.
		Communism -- Cuba -- History -- Sources.
		Communism -- Philippines -- History -- Sources.
		Communism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
		Communist Party of the United States of America --History --20th century.
		Communists -- United States.
		Economics.
		International relations.
		Strikes and lockouts -- United States.
	Document Types:
		Charts.
		Clippings.
		Correspondence.
		Documents.
		Ephemera.
		Notes.
		Scrapbooks.
	Other Names:
		Communist Party of the United States of America.
		Hall, Gus.

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Administrative Information

Provenance

Gift of James S. Allen, 1982, and Jesse Auerbach (son), 1986.

Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); The James S. Allen Papers; Tamiment 142; box number; folder number;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.

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Container List

[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]

Series I: Biographical and Correspondence
Subseries A: Alphabetical
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	1	Auerbach, Isabelle: Correspondence	1938
1	2	Auerbach, Isabelle, Death of: Correspondence	1971-1973
1	3	Allen, James, 60th Birthday Celebration: Correspondence	1966
1	4	Auerbach, Jesse (son): Correspondence	1962
1	4A	College Compositions	1923-1927
1	5	Daily Worker (lengthy "Anti-Gates" letter to the editor)	ca.1956-1958
1	6	FOIA: Correspondence	1977-1985
1	7	Foster, William Z.: Correspondence (re: Outline Political History of the Americas)	1950
1	8	Haga, Takeshi ("Fred"): Correspondence	1969-1974
1	9	Lumer, Hyman (re: War Economy and Crisis): Correspondence	1953
1	10	Marx and Engels Collected Works: Correspondence, Alphabetical	1969-1976
1	11	Marx and Engels Collected Works: Correspondence - Cornforth, Maurice	1969-1976
1	12	Mins, Henry (translator, Marx and Engels Collected Works): Correspondence	1973-1975
1	13	Passport: Correspondence	1959-1966
1	14	Pennsylvania, University of: Allen's Loss of Instructorship	1928
1	14A	Poems and Jottings	1920-1927
1	15	U.S. Senate Committee on Government Operations: Allen testimony	1953-1957
1	15A	What's in a Name? (Re: Allen/Auerbach)	undated
Subseries B: Chronological
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	16	Correspondence	1935-1948
1	17	Correspondence	1951-1959
1	18	Correspondence	1960-1969
1	19	Correspondence	1971
1	20	Correspondence	1972
1	21	Correspondence	1973
1	22	Correspondence	1974-1975
1	23	Correspondence	1976-1977
1	24	Correspondence	1978-1979
1	25	Correspondence	1980-1981
1	26	Correspondence	1982-1983
1	27	Correspondence	1984-1986

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Series II. Communist Party USA New Program
Box	Folder	Title	Date
1	28	Allen: The American Road to Socialism - Program Questions and Political Affairs Article	1958
1	29	Allen: Communist Party National Executive Committee Meeting Notes	1960
1	30	Allen: Correspondence (Alphabetical)	1958-1959, 1965
1	31	Allen: Correspondence (re: American Road to Socialism)	ca.1958
1	32	Allen: Correspondence (First Name Only)	1958-1959
1	33	Allen: How to Move Forward for NC Meeting; March 1960.	1960
1	34	Allen: Initial Report on Basic Program (for the Initiating Committee on Program to the NEC); May 9, 1938	1938
1	35	Allen: Programmatic Typescripts and Notes, Misc.	1954, 1960-1969
1	36	Allen: Recovery from the Struggle Against Revisionism (Drafts and Reply to Foster)	1960
1	37	Allen: Ultra-Right Danger - Notes	1961-1962
1	38	The American Road to Socialism: Program Questions (For Publication in September 1958 Issue of Political Affairs)	undated
1	39	The American Way to Jobs, Democracy: Draft Program of the Communist Party; Mar-1954	1954
1	40	The American Way to Jobs, Peace, Equal Rights, and Democracy: Program of the Communist Party; Sep-1954	1954
1	41	Communist Party Program Committee Records	1958-1959
1	42	Comments from Party Members	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	1	Communist Party Program Committee - Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee	1958
2	2	Communist Party Working Commission Draft Program, Gus Hall cover letter c. Oct 1965	ca.1965
2	3	Draft: "Declaration of Principles" and "Guiding Elements"	undated
2	4	Foreign Communist Party Programs	1957-1958
2	5	Foster, William Z: "Notes on the Communist Party Electoral Policy" (unpublished), Allen's Editorial Notes Thereon; Nov-1958	1958
2	6	Marxism and the World Today Discussion Guide (Issued by Lecture and Information Bureau)	undated
2	7	New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A.: Adopted by the 19th National Convention (1969)	1970
2	8	New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A. (Untitled 'First' Draft)	ca.1965-1966
2	9	New Program of the Communist Party U.S.A. (Second Draft); Mar-1968	1968
2	10	The Southern People's Program for Democracy, Prosperity, and Peace (CPUSA Southern Regional Committee); Mar-1953	1953
2	11	Soviet Union Communist Party 22nd Congress - Published Documents and Commentary	1961

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Series III: FOIA Files
Box	Folder	Title	Date
2	12	Auerbach, FOIA Correspondence and Reports	1984-1985
2	13	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-3-104-34 Sections 7 and 8	undated
2	14	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #7	undated
2	15	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #8	undated
2	16	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #9	undated
2	17	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #10	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	1	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #11	undated
3	2	Auerbach, FOIA File # 100-28831 Section #12	undated
3	3	Auerbach, FOIA Supplemental release of Documents	undated

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Series IV: Philippines
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	4	Araneta, Antonio S., Jr. Untitled Thesis on Communism in the Philippines, 163 pp.	undated
3	4A	Communism in the Commonwealth: A Political Memoir (Allen)	1983
3	5	Correspondence	1936-1940, 1958
3	5A	Correspondence re The Radical Left on the Eve of War (Renato Constantino, William Henry Scott)	1983-1985
3	6	Correspondence - Pomeroy, William	1979
3	7	Philippines, Report on (by Allen) - 45 pp + documents; 13-Feb 1939	1939
3	8	Philippines: Notes and Documents	undated
3	9	Untitled, Anonymous Book-Length Typescript on Communism in the Philippines	undated

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Series V: Subject Files
Box	Folder	Title	Date
3	9A	Agrarian Commission, CPUSA (see also: box 3, folder 29A)	1931-1933
3	10	Anti-Monopoly Program	1956-1959
3	11	Automation	1958-1960
3	12	China	1960
3	13	China: An Analytical Study of the Financial Basis of the Chinese Kuomintang Clique	ca.1948
3	14	China, Communism in	1946-1950
3	15	Class Composition	1959-1960
3	16	Communist Party USA - Convention, 20th - Draft Theses, Reports, etc.	1971-1972
3	17	Communist Party USA - Convention, 21st - Draft Main Political Resolution, Feb. 1, 1975.	1975
3	18	Communist Party USA - Crisis	1954-1958
3	19	Communist Party USA - Documents	1960
3	20	Communist Party USA - Economic Conference	ca.1949
3	21	Communist Party USA - Education Department (Includes Discussion of Mainstream)	1960-1961
3	22	Cuba	1961
3	23	Cuban Revolution	1957-1961
3	24	Eastern Europe - Nationalization - Post WW II	1945-1948
3	25	Economic Crisis - Post WWII	ca.1947
3	26	Elections of 1956 - Economic Program, etc.	1955-1956
3	27	Euro-Communism	ca.1975-1976
3	28	Europe, Trip	1964
3	29	Farm Crisis	1960
3	29A	Farm Trip Midwest (see also: box 3, folder 9A)	1932
3	30	50th Anniversary (Russian Revolution)	1967
3	31	Gates Revisionism	1956-1960
3	32	Imperialism - Colonialism	1948, 1957-1959
3	33	Japan	1970, undated
3	34	Latin America	undated
3	35	Marx, Karl - "Accumulation of Capital and Crisis" (Issued by the National Education Department, CPUSA)	undated
3	36	Marx - Engels, Collected Works	undated
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	1	Marx - Engels, Collected Works: Condition of the Working Class in England	undated
4	1A	Middle Strata	ca.1956-1957
4	2	Moscow, Trip	1974
4	3	Pacific Relations, Institute of	1952, 1959
4	4	Peaceful Coexistence, Transition, etc.	1958-1959
4	5	Poland Land Program	undated
4	6	Romania, Summer Trip (Includes Journal)	1971-1972
4	7	Scottsboro, Decatur Trial	1933
4	8	Socialism and Communism: Marx, Lenin, and Stalin on Theory	undated
4	9	Socialist Groups, Parties, and Trends	1956-1958
4	10	Stages - Anti-Monopoly and Socialism (Notes)	ca.1957-1959
4	10A	Southern Worker: Clippings	1930-1931
4	11	Technology and Social Change	undated
4	12	Temporary National Economic Committee (TNEC)	1940-1941
4	13	Twelve Party Declaration	1957-1959
4	14	Unemployment, Summary Discussion of (CP National Economic Committee Meeting); 9-10 Mar 1961.	1961
4	15	US Economy - General Movement	1955-1959
4	16	US Foreign Investment (Post WWII)	ca.1958
4	17	USSR, GDR, and Czechoslovakia Trip Journals	1960-1961
4	18	USSR, Trip Journals	1960-1961
4	19	USSR, Trip to	1960-1961, 1974
4	20	USSR, Trip to - Notes, Sketches, and Letters Home	1927

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Series VI: Writings
Subseries A: Negro Question in the United States
Box	Folder	Title	Date
4	21	Black Belt Calculations	1950
4	22	Black Belt Statistics	1950, 1970
4	23	Census Material	1948, 1970-1972
4	24	Correspondence re: Negro Question in the United States	1949, 1971
4	25	Communist Party National Committee and Negro Commission: Discussion on Negro Question (Includes Notes and Reports by Allen, James Jackson, and Doxey Wilkerson)	1956-1958
4	26	Jackson, James E: Black Belt, Negro Question - Communist Party Internal Reports	1951-1956, undated
4	27	Negro Question, Essays on the	1956-1959
4	28	Negro Question in the US: Partial Typescript for a Proposed Post-WWII (Revised) Edition	ca.1946
4	29	Negro Question in the US: Preface to Revised Edition	ca.1947
4	30	New Material for Negro Question in the US	1949, undated
4	31	Reviews of the Negro Question in the US	1936-1937
4	32	The South, Conference on (Jefferson School of Social Science; 30-Jun 1956	1956
4	33	Theoretical Aspects of the Negro Question in the US; Feb-1959	1959
4		SEE ALSO: Series VII-B. Charts: Black Belt County Population Data	NA
Subseries B: Organizing in the Depression South
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	1	Contents	undated
5	2	II: We Go South	undated
5	3	III: Founding the Southern Worker	undated
5	4	IV: The Beginning of Communist Organization	undated
5	5	V: Tallapoosa	undated
5	6	VI: Scottsboro	undated
5	7	VII: The Decatur Trial	undated
5	8	VIII: Epilogue (re: Scottsboro)	undated
5	9	Appendix I: Foster, William Z. "The Worker's (Communist) Party in the South"	undated
5	10	Appendix II: Documents	undated
Subseries C: Visions and Revisions
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	11	Visions and Revisions Book One: Table of Contents	undated
5	12	I: The Young Years	undated
5	13	II: Generations	undated
5	14	III: The Soviet Union, 1927	undated
5	15	IV: New York and Cleveland	undated
5	16	IX: Black Self-Determination	undated
5	17	X: Dialectics of Liberation ("Black Liberation")	undated
5	18	XI: The Philippines {See also: Series IV: Philippines}	undated
5	19	XII: The Philippines Revisited	undated
5	20	XVIII: Marxist Publisher	undated
Subseries D: Other
Box	Folder	Title	Date
5	21	American Communism and Black Americans: Correspondence	1983-1985
5	22	American Foreign Investment	1949, 1958
5	23	American History, Essays on	ca.1937, 1954
5	24	Atomic Energy and Society (Includes Letter from Albert Einstein)	1949-1950
5	25	Atomic Imperialism: Correspondence and Reviews	1950-1952, 1954
5	26	Atomic Imperialism: Raw Materials	1938, 1948-1950
5	27	Book Contracts	1946-1962
5	28	Book Project	1958-1960
5	29	Book Reviews by Allen	undated
5	30	Browder's Utopian World (Submitted to Political Affairs - Rejected)	1948
5	31	Changing Position of American Capitalism in the World Economy During WWII; Main Characteristics of the Economy of WWII (Unpublished Transcripts and Correspondence)	1948-1949
5	32	Communist Party USA - Reviews (typescript) of Various Books	undated
5	33	The Crisis of Foreign Policy (Report on Behalf of CPUSA Foreign Affairs Committee); 24-Oct 1957	1957
5	34	Cuba: Interview with Blas Roca; 4 - 13 Apr 1978	1978
5	35	Detente	1973
5	36	Did the CEC Prepare the Party for May Day	ca.1929
5	37	Early Unpublished Writing	1928-1935
5	38	Economic Cycles	1948-1956
5	39	Eisenhower Monopoly Government	1952-1953
5	40	The Eisenhower Monopoly Government (Rejected by Political Affairs)	1953
5	41	Elections - Truman Government	1948-1952
5	42	Electoral Strategy	1958
5	43	Foreign Affairs: Notes and Typescripts	1945-1948
Box	Folder	Title	Date
6	1	Foreign Policy	1949-1960
6	2	Hungary, Communist Party in	1956-1957
6	3	India	1942, undated
6	4	Kennedy and the Berlin Crisis (Nuclear Testing)	ca.1961
6	5	Lenin - National Question	undated
6	6	The Making of a Communist Intellectual: Notes for a Chapter	undated
6	7	Marx - National Question	undated
6	8	Memoirs	1973-1980
6	9	Mexico, Crisis in	ca.1940-1942
6	10	Miscellaneous: Unpublished Brief Typescripts 1940s - 1950s	1940-1960
6	11	Miscellaneous: Unpublished Brief Typescripts (By Title) 1960s - 1980s	1960-1990
6	12	Monopoly Capital in the United States (A Preliminary Prospectus for a New Book)	undated
6	13	Monopoly, Notes for	1941-1946, 1953
6	14	National Farm Conference	1940
6	15	Nazi - Soviet Pact	1939, 1984
6	16	The Need for a Critical "New Look" (Discussion Article); Note to Dennis and Foster re: Its Rejection for Publication in the Daily Worker, by John Gates; Mar - Apr 1956	1956
6	17	"The Negro Question: A Discussion" - Article, Political Affairs; Nov-1946
6	18	Neo - Colonialism	1970-1971
6	19	Notes for Later Autobiography: Materials for XIII<