Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers TAM 330
Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
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Descriptive Summary
| Source - dnr: | Hard, Robert |
|---|---|
| Title: | Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers |
| Dates [inclusive]: | 1925-2001 |
| Dates [bulk]: | 1945-1991 |
| Abstract: | Simon W. (Si) Gerson, 1909-2004, was the longtime New York State, and later national legislative/political action director for the Communist Party, and was an advocate of proportional representation and ballot access for minor political parties, including in the 1980s-90s as a leader of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE). He served as Confidential Examiner to Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, 1938-40, managed Communist election campaigns (later writing a biography Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's First Communist Councilman), and organized activities in support of the Communist Party leaders indicted under the Smith Act, as was Gerson. In the 1950s he was executive editor of the Party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, and of its later successor, the Daily World. Along with his wife, Sophie Melvin Gerson, an organizer of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, he was a longtime resident of and community activist in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The papers contain clippings, correspondence with leading communists and political figures, published and unpublished writings including manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper columns, reviews and reports, a scrapbook and speeches, including materials relating to Cacchione's career and death, and to Gerson's several campaigns for public office, research notes and typescript drafts for several chapters of a never-completed book, "Do We Really Have Free Elections (ca. 1990)," a related manuscript by Adam Lapin, "Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The American Two Party System," Communist Party internal documents, including reports by leading figures, many relating to the communist political crises of 1956-58 and 1989-91, and minutes of and correspondence relating to COFOE and the publication Ballot Access News. |
| Quantity: | 15 Linear Feet in 30 manuscript boxes, 1 record carton, 1 flat box and 1 oversize folder in a shared flat box. |
| Language: | Materials are in English |
| Call Phrase: | TAM 330 |
Historical/Biographical Note
Simon W. (Si) Gerson, 1909-2004, was the longtime New York State, and later national legislative/political action director for the Communist Party, and was an advocate of proportional representation and ballot access for minor political parties, including in the 1980s-90s as a leader of the Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE). He served as Confidential Examiner to Manhattan Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs, 1938-40, until controversy over his Party membership caused him to resign this position, managed Communist election campaigns (later writing a biography Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's First Communist Councilman), unsuccessfully campaigning to succeed Cacchione after his death in 1947, and organized activities in support of the Communist Party leaders indicted under the Smith Act, as was Gerson. In the 1950s he was executive editor of the Party's newspaper, the Daily Worker, and of its later successor, the Daily World. Along with his wife, Sophie Melvin Gerson, an organizer of the Gastonia Textile Strike of 1929, he was a longtime resident of and community activist in the Bensonhurst neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Simon W. Gerson Selected Bibliography: Monographs and articles in periodicals (excluding book reviews and newspaper articles):
------, "A People's' Constitution for New York." New York State Communist Party, n.d.
"The New Left Social Fascism." Communist, 9 (July, 1930): 622-631.
It Is Happening Here. New York: New York State Committee, Communist Party, 1941.
Public Speaking: A Speakers Guide Book, by Peter V. Cacchione; foreword by Simon W. Gerson. New York : Workers Library Publishers, 1942.
"Thomas E. Dewey: His Record." Communist 22 (May, 1943): 461-468.
Pete Cacchione--His Record. New York: Workers Library, 1943.
"The Stork Club Goes for Dewey." New Masses 60, no. 11 (Sep 11, 1946): 17-20.
"How You Can Beat Dewey." New Masses 61, no. 6 (November 5, 1946): 4-5.
"Electoral Coalition Problems." Political Affairs, 26 (October, 1947): 894-901.
"La Guardia: Guerrilla Warrior." New Masses (October 7, 1947): 9-12.
The Killing of William Milton, by Art Shields, Introduction by Simon W. Gerson. New York: Daily Worker, 1948.
Either the Constitution or the Mundt Bill: America Can't Have Both. New York: New Century, 1950.
"The Jury System and Democratic Rights." Political Affairs, 31: 35-44 (July, 1952).
The Outlook for the N.Y. City Elections. New York State Communist Party (1954).
The Rights You Save May Be Your Own. New York: New York State Communist Party, 1954.
"A Communist at Cornell." Masses & Mainstream, 8 (July, 1955): 28-35.
Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione, New York's First Communist Councilman. New York: International Publishers, 1976.
"On Building a Mass Anti-monopoly Party." Political Affairs (October 1977): 22-26.
After Fifty Years: Revisiting the U.S.S.R. New York : NWR Publications, 1978.
"The 1978 Midterm Elections." Political Affairs 57, no.1 (January, 1978): 18-21.
"Vito Marcantonio: From Republican to Radical." Political Affairs (November, 1979)
"Independence and Coalition; The Communist View." Political Affairs (December, 1979): 7-12.
"From Truman Doctrine to Reagan Doctrine." Political Affairs (August, 1987): 15-21.
"How to Win Political Democracy." Political Affairs (November, 1985): 14-17.
"Does the U.S. Have Free Elections?" Political Affairs (December, 1990): 10-14.
"Again, on Political Independence." Si Gerson and Jarvis Tyner. Political Affairs (January, 1993): 41.
Scope and Content Note
The papers contain clippings, correspondence with leading communists and political figures, published and unpublished writings including manuscripts, memorandums, newspaper columns, reviews and reports, a scrapbook and speeches, including materials relating to Cacchione's career and death, and to Gerson's several campaigns for public office (including a speech recorded on two phonograph discs), research notes and typescript drafts for several chapters of a never-completed book, "Do We Really Have Free Elections (ca. 1990)," a related manuscript by Adam Lapin, "Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The American Two Party System," Communist Party internal documents, including reports by leading figures, many relating to the communist political crises of 1956-58 and 1989-91, minutes of and correspondence relating to Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE) and the publication Ballot Access News, clippings relating to Sophie Gerson's activities in Gastonia, North Carolina during the 1929 textile strike there, and audiocassettes and reel to reel tapes (public programs honoring the Gersons, and Gus Hall "Updates").
Notable individuals represented include: Ann Rosenhaft and Richard Winger (COFOE), Irving Adler, Helen Alfred (Peace Publications), Zaccariah Chafee, Mike Davidow, William O. Douglas, Harry Eisman, Fred Fine, William Z. Foster, Gil Green, Dorothy Healey, Murray Kempton, James Jackson, Al Lannon, Robert Minor, George Morris, Otto Nathan, Joseph North, John Pittman, Al Richmond, Lester Rodney, Morton Sobell, Norman Thomas, Robert Thompson, Carl Winter, and Alden Whitman (New York Times).
Arrangement
Folders are arranged alphabetically, except for boxes 27-31, which have not been arranged by an archivist. The collection is arranged into five series:
Series I: Papers, 1927-2001
Series II: Scrapbooks, undated
Series III: Photographs, 1927-1991
Series IV: Addendum, 1918-1947
Series V: Addendum 2011, undated
The collection is organized into four series: I, Papers; II, Addendum; Scrapbook; III, Addendum; IV, Addendum, 2011. Each is arranged alphabetically, and the contents of each folder are arranged chronologically, except for boxes 27-31, which are unprocessed.
Access Points
Subject Names
- Fine, Fred.
- Davidow, Mike
- Chafee, Zechariah, 1885-1957
- Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
- Cacchione, Peter V., 1897-1947
- Bransten, Richard, 1906-1955
- Alfred, Helen L.
- Gerson, Simon W.
- Thompson, Robert George, 1915-1966.
- Sobell, Morton
- Rosenhaft, Ann.
- Richmond, Al, 1913-1987.
- Rodney, Lester, 1911-
- Foster, William Z., 1881-1961.
- Lannon, Al, 1907-1969
- Kempton, Murray, 1917-
- Minor, Robert, 1884-1952
- McKenney, Ruth, 1911-1972
- North, Joseph
- Aizman, Garri.
- Gerson, Sophie
- Winger, Richard
- Green, Gil, 1906-
- Isaacs, Stanley M. (Stanley Myer), 1882-1962
- Lapin, Adam. Tweedledum and tweedledee: the American two party system.
- Douglas, William O. (William Orville), 1898-1980
- Adler, Irving
- Winter, Carl, 1906-1991
- Jackson, James E., 1914-2007
- Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006
- Nathan, Otto, 1893-1987.
- Thomas, Norman, 1884-1968
- Whitman, Alden
- Pittman, John
- Gerson, Deborah
- Hard, Robert
- Steiner, Sarah
Document Type
- Audiocassettes.
- Audiotapes.
- Sound recordings.
- Photographs.
- Briefs (legal documents)
- Ballots.
- Transcripts.
- Fliers (printed matter)
- Testimonies.
- Speeches.
- Clippings (information artifacts)
- Scrapbooks.
- Manuscripts (document genre)
- Correspondence.
- Manuscripts for publication.
- Reports.
- Resolutions (administrative records)
- Petitions.
- Press releases.
- Memorandums.
- Notes.
- Minutes (administrative records)
Subject Organizations
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- People's weekly world (New York, N.Y.)
- Daily World (New York, N.Y.)
- American Labor Party of the State of New York
- Center for Voting and Democracy
- Coalition for Free and Open Elections (U.S.)
- Communist Party of the United States of America. Convention (16th : 1957 : New York)
- Communist Party of the United States of America. Convention (25th : 1991 : Cleveland)
- Communist Party of the United States of America
- Daily Worker (New York)
- Manhattan (New York, N.Y.). Office of the President
- New York (N.Y.). City Council--Elections
- Communist Party of the United States of America (New York)
- Peace Publications Committee
- Ballot Access News
Subject Topics
- Representative government and representation -- United States.
- Politics, Practical -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Proportional representation.
- Third parties (United States politics)
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- United States.
- Communist Trial, New York, N.Y., 1949.
- Elections -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Communist trials -- United States.
- Minorities -x Suffrage -- United States.
- Minorities -x Suffrage -- New York (State)
- Political parties -- New York (State).
- Communism -- New York (State) -- New York
- Election law -- New York (State)
- Communists -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Journalism, Communist -- United States.
- Communists -- United States.
- Proportional representation -- New York (State)
- Jewish communists -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Communism -- United States.
Subject Places
- Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Politics and government |y 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by Simon W. Gerson and Sophie Gerson were transferred to New York University in 2005 by Deborah Gerson. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date; Simon W. Gerson Papers; TAM 330; 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.
Separated Material
Three manuscripts by Mike Gold have been separated to the Michael Gold: Peter V. Cacchione Manuscripts (TAM 339). Approximately 30 audiocassettes (1980s) that include "Gus Hall Updates" and several interviews with Simon Gerson have been separated to the Simon W. Gerson Audiocassettes (OH 054).
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Deborah Gerson in 2005; additional materials were donated by Robert Hard and Sarah Steiner in 2011. The accession numbers associated with this collection are 2005.009, 2005.011, NPA.2005.225, 2011.043, and 2011.080.
Processing Information
Photographs separated from this collection during processing were established as a separate collection, the Simon W. Gerson Photographs (PHOTOS 214). In 2014, the photograph collection was reincorporated into the Simon W. Gerson Papers (TAM 330).
Container List
Series I: Papers, 1927-2001
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | Abt, John: Notes on the First Amendment |
Undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | Activities of Anti-Semitic Groups in New York City [A Report to the Mayor, From Nathan
Frankel and Byrnes MacDonald] |
Jul 18, 1937 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | American Labor Party New York (City and State) |
1938-1954 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | American Student Delegation to Russia |
1927 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | Aptheker, Herbert "Democracy, Diversity, and Property" |
Undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | Association of City Hall Reporters/The Inner Circle |
1948 , 1952 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | Ballot Access News |
1983-1999 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 8 | Bath Beach Community Improvement Association (Brooklyn, NY) |
1980 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 9 | Bay View Civic Association (Brooklyn, NY) |
Undated , 1948 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 10 | Bensonhurst Fraternal Society (Brooklyn, NY) |
Undated , 1982-1987 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 11 | Bill of Rights Conference (New York, NY) |
1948 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 12 | Budget, Personal |
1949 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 13 | Cacchione, Peter V.: "Builders of America" (Play Written for the International Workers
Order) |
Undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 14 | Cacchione, Peter V.: City Council Career |
1945-1947 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 15 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Death |
1947 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 16 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Election Campaigns |
Undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 17 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Election Campaign |
1943 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 18 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Election Campaign |
1945 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 19 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Pamphlets |
Undated | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 20 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Succession Fight |
1947-1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 1 | Celler, Emmanuel [Congressman Brooklyn, NY 12th District] |
Undated | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 2 | Center for Voting and Democracy |
1995-1996 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 3 | Citizens Committee for the Election of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to Congress (Bronx,
NY) |
Undated | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 4 | Citizens Emergency Defense Committee (re Smith Act Defendants ) |
1952 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 5 | City Council Campaign |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 6 | City Council Campaign: Bay Ridge Incident (Violence) |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 7 | City Council Campaign: Correspondence |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 8 | City Council Campaign: Literature |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 9 | City Council Campaign: Loudspeaker Bill (Local) |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 10 | City Council Campaign: Norman Mailer Support Statement |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 11 | City Council Campaign: Press Releases |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 12 | City Council Campaign: Press Releases, Speeches by Others in Support of Gerson |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 13 | City Council Campaign: Sanford Chalfin Case (Police Brutality) |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 14 | City Council Campaign: Radio Schedule |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 15 | City Council Campaign: Scrapbook |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 16 | City Council Campaign: Speech Gentleman's Agreement and Franco |
1948 | |
| Box: 2 | Folder : 17 | City Council Campaign: Speeches on Israel |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 1 | City Council Campaign: Speech "La Guardia vs O'Dwyer" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 2 | City Council Campaign: Speech "Liberal Party and Berle" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 3 | City Council Campaign: Speech "O'Dwyer Record on Civil Liberties" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 4 | City Council Campaign: Speech "Registration and Wasted Vote" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 5 | City Council Campaign: Speech "Robert Thompson Attack and O'Dwyer Record on Civil
Liberties" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 6 | City Council Campaign Speech: "Trial of Eleven (CP Smith Activities)" |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 7 | City Council Campaign: Three Minute [Sound] Recording Typescript |
1948 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 8 | Civil Rights Congress Bail Fund |
Undated | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 9 | Coalition for Free and Open Elections (COFOE) |
1986-1996 , 2000 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 10 | COFOE Amicus Brief (Miller v. Lorain County, Ohio) |
1997-1998 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 11 | COFOE Correspondence |
1985-1997 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 12 | COFOE Minutes |
1987-1996 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 13 | Commission on Fair Elections |
1999 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 14 | Committee for Independent Political Action (Includes: "Dialogue with James Weinstein") |
1966 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 15 | Committee of Neighbors and Friends of Si Gerson (re Smith Act indictment) |
1951-1952 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 1 | Communist Party New York: Municipal/State Political Action, Politics |
1953-1966 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 2 | Communist Party New York State: Election Campaign and Ballot Fight |
1946 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 3 | Communist Party New York State: MTA Fare Increase |
1991 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 4 | Communist Party New York State: Save the 5 Cents Fare Campaign |
1947-1948 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 1 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Clippings |
1956-1958 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 2 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Convention, 16th (New York, NY: Feb. 9-12,
1957) |
1956-1957 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 3 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Correspondence Contents: Foster to Dennis
5/31; Ford to Gerson 6/15) |
1956 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 4 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Correspondence, Documents |
Undated | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 5 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents |
1956 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 6 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents |
1957 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 7 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents |
1958 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 8 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents |
1959 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 9 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents: California |
Undated | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 10 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents: "New Features of the Negro Question
in the United States" by James E. Jackson |
Sep 1958 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 11 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents: "The Party Crisis and the Way
Out" by William Z. Foster (reply to Bittelman) |
Dec 1957 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 12 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents: Program Committee |
1958-1959 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 13 | Communist Party USA: Crisis of 1956-1958: Documents: "The Welfare State and the American
Road to Socialism" by Alexander Bittelmen |
Dec 1957 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 1 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Convention (25th Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 5-8 1991) |
1991 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 2 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
Undated | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 3 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
1989 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 4 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
1990 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 5 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
Jan 1991 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : 6 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
Feb 1991-Jul 1991 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 1 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
Aug 1991-Oct 1991 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 2 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
Nov 1991-Dec 1991 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 3 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents |
1992 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 4 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents: Memo on the Rachel Friedberg Estate |
Undated | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 5 | Communist Party Crisis of 1989-1991: Documents: Elders Committee |
Undated | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 6 | Communist Party USA: Czechoslovakia Controversy (Gil Green, Dorothy Healey) |
1968 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 7 | Communist Party USA: Dissent (Gil Green, Don Hammerquist) |
1968 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 8 | Communist Party USA: Documents |
1993-1998 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 9 | Communist Party USA: Documents |
2000-2001 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 10 | Communist Party USA: Documents Miscellaneous |
1940s-1990s | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 11 | Communist Party USA: Hall-Tyner Campaign Committee Case |
1976-1992 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : 12 | Communist Party USA: Jewish Question: Expulsion of Paul Novick |
1966-1973 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 1 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Clippings |
1937-1939 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 2 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Correspondence, Documents |
1937-1940 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 3 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Correspondence and Statement |
1934-1939 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 4 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Legal Documents |
1938-1940 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 5 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: McNaboe Investigation |
1938 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 6 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Opposition |
1934-1939 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 7 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Resignation |
Sep 1940 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 8 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Speech |
Feb 16, 1939 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 9 | Confidential Examiner for Stanley M. Isaacs: Support |
1937-1938 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : 10 | Congressional Campaign (13th District: Brooklyn, NY) |
1952 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence; Aronson, James |
1963-1980 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: Auerbach, Arnold Jerry |
1930s , 1992-1993 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: First name only |
1977 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: Abt, John |
1971 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence: Baker, William and Christina (Maine) |
1987-1996 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 6 | Correspondence: Bransten, Richard and Ruth McKenney |
1955 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 7 | Correspondence: California (Includes Dorthy Healey, Al Lannon, Mickey Lima, Lester
Rodney) |
1958-1996 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 8 | Correspondence: Cards |
1980-1998 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 9 | Correspondence: Cahfee, Zeccariah |
1,955-1956 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 10 | Correspondence: Davidow, Mike |
1975-1996 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 11 | Correspondence: Eisman, Harry |
1975 , 1977 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 12 | Correspondence: Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley |
Nov 10, 1947 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 13 | Correspondence, Foreign: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania |
1964-1989 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 14 | Correspondence, Foreign: Denmark |
1970-1975 , 1991 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 15 | Correspondence: Fine, Fred M. |
1958-1964 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 16 | Correspondence: Garlin, Sender |
1974-1980 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 17 | Correspondence: Garlin, Sender |
1981-1992 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 18 | Correspondence: Green, Gil and Lillian |
1960-1965 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 19 | Correspondence: Hassman, Harry and Regina |
1988-1990 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 20 | Correspondence: Isaacs, Stanley M. |
1938-1954 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 21 | Correspondence: Isaacs, Stanley M. (re Robert Thompson, etc.) |
1955-1965 , 1994 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 22 | Correspondence: Kra, Sabina |
1973 , 1978-1985 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 23 | Correspondence: Magil, Abe |
1930 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : 24 | Correspondence: Morris, George and Helen |
1972-1994 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence: National Guardian |
1965 , 1967 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: National Writers Union |
1989-1995 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: Novosti Press Agency |
1975-1982 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: O'Dwyer, Paul |
1947 , 1977 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence: Parenti, Michael |
1985-1995 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 6 | Correspondence: Peace Publications (Helen Alfred, editor) |
1958 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 7 | Correspondence: Pittman, John and Margret |
1967-1992 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 8 | Correspondence (re: Progressive) |
1955 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 9 | Correspondence: Reese, Mark (re Jackie Robinson documentary) |
1996 , 1997 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 10 | Correspondence: Rubin, Danny |
1968 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 11 | Correspondence: Sobell, Morton and Helen |
1974 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 12 | Correspondence: Thomas Norman (re Smith Act, Fleischman bio of Norman Thomas; Robert
Thompson, Herbert Aptheker Congressional Race |
1956-1966 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 13 | Correspondence: Volga Peace Cruise |
1982 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 14 | Correspondence: Whitman, Alden (New York Times reporter) |
1978-1986 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 15 | Correspondence: Wheeler, Tim (re his nomination for James Aronson Award) |
1990 , 1991 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 16 | Correspondence: Winger, Richard |
1986-1992 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 17 | Correspondence: Winger, Richard |
1992-2001 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 18 | Correspondence: Winter, Carl and Helen |
1961 , 1966 , 1991 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : 19 | Correspondence: Wochenpost |
1957-1975 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1931-1949 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1950-1954 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1955-1959 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1960-1969 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1970-1975 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 6 | Correspondence: Chronological |
May 1975-Dec 1975 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 7 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1976-1977 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 8 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1978-1979 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 9 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1980 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1981 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1982 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1983 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1984 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 5 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1985 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 6 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1986 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 7 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1987 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 8 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1988 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 9 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1989 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 10 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1990 | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : 11 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1991 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 1 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1992 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1993-1994 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 3 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1995 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 4 | Correspondence: Chronological |
1996-2000 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 1 | Czechoslovakia |
1968 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 2 | Daily Worker: Gerson Memo to CP Secretariat |
Jul 7, 1946 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 3 | Daily Worker: Correspondence, etc. regarding Re-Establishment of |
1967 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 4 | Daily Worker: Crisis (Gates Resignation; Gerson becomes Editor |
1957-1958 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 5 | Devaney Bill (New York State Civil Service Anti-Communist Measure) |
1940 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 6 | Discussion Group Proposal on Exploratory Committee on Independent Political Action |
1989 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 7 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? |
1980-1988 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 8 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Acknowledgements and Preface |
1990 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 9 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on Communist Party and Ballot Rights |
1974-1984 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 10 | Do we Really have Free Elections? Chapter on Ballot Rights |
1978 , 1987-1988 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 11 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on Bella Abzug (and Correspondence) |
1989 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 12 | Do we Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on Constitution |
1987 | |
| Box: 14 | Folder : 13 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on Elections and 1947 Electoral Process |
Undated | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 1 | Do we Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on "Post World War [War II] "Scare Hints |
Undated | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 2 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Chapter on The Peoples Front |
Undated | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 3 | Do We Really have Free Elections? Chapter on Who Should Vote? The Early Debates |
Undated | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 4 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Correspondence |
1988-1991 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 5 | Do we Really Have Free Elections? Correspondence: Mahler Institute |
1988-1995 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 6 | Do We Really Have Free Elections? Research |
1980-1990 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 7 | 18th Avenue-Shore Parkway Block Association |
1981-1982 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 8 | FBI Wire Tapping |
1958 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 9 | Feinberg Law Closing brief of the CP of NY (Gerson, of Counsel) |
Jun 17, 1953 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 10 | Felshin, Roy "Why I did Not Resign: An Open Letter to the City Planning Commission" |
May 6, 1970 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 11 | The Fixer (Poem about Political Corruption), by William W. Wormer |
Undated | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 12 | Foster, William Z. Letter to [CP] National Administration Committee re Daily Worker(Individual Criticism of Gerson position on Hungary) |
Aug 31, 1957 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 13 | Foster, William Z. Speech: Radio Station WMCA |
Nov 2, 1946 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 14 | Gates, John "Why I Quit the Communist Party" (New York Post Reprint of six articles) |
1958 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 14A | Italy Gerson trip to (PCI Festival, Modena) |
1966 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 15 | Hungary |
1956-1957 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 16 | Idea File (for newspaper articles) |
1957 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 17 | Independent Committee for the Support of Foster and Ford |
1932 | |
| Box: 15 | Folder : 18 | Informers and the Smith Act |
1952-1954 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 1 | International Organization of Journalists |
1990-1991 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 2 | Jewish Communists |
1982-1985 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 3 | Jury System (Includes Smith Act Materials) |
1952 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 4 | Lapin, Adam. Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The American Two-Party System (typescript,
467 leaves; with Comments by SWG) |
Undated | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 5 | Liberal Party |
1944-1948 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 6 | Marcantonio, Vito: Speech (as Chair of NY County American Labor Party), Radio Station
WMCA |
Aug 9, 1943 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 7 | McCarran Act |
1948-1968 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 8 | Minor, Robert: Letter to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn |
Sep 23, 1952 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 9 | Movement for a Democratic Society |
Undated , 1969 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 10 | New York (N.Y.) Board Of Elections: Annual Report [Gerson's annotated copy] |
1937 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 11 | New York Politics |
1975-1986 | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 12 | New York State Italian American Committee for Roosevelt |
Undated | |
| Box: 16 | Folder : 13 | Notebook: Bibliography on Labor Politics; Abzug-Moynihan 76 Race; Minnesota Farmer
Labor Party |
Undated | |
| Box: 17 | Folder : 1 | Notes for Talks and Speeches |
1980-1983 | |
| Box: 17 | Folder : 2 | Notes for Talks and Speeches |
1983-1992 | |
| Box: 17 | Folder : 3 | Passport Denial [Gerson ] /Right to Travel |
1957 | |
| Box: 17 | Folder : 4 | People's Weekly World: Journalistic Guidelines |
Undated , 1986 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 1 | Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione: Correspondence |
1974-1990 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 2 | Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione: Research |
Undated , 1970 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 3 | Pete: The Story of Peter V. Cacchione: Reviews |
1976 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 4 | Poland: Anti-Semitism |
1969 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 5 | Proportional Representation: "Ballad for Proportional Representation" by Milton Ost |
1947 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 6 | Proportional Representation: Research |
1947 , 1975 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 7 | Proportional Representation: Research Clippings |
1938-1980 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 8 | Quotations |
Undated | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 9 | Remarks at Funeral of Fred Breihl |
Mar 14, 1974 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 10 | Rosenberg Case |
1952 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 11 | Salute to Si Gerson |
Nov 20, 1994 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 12 | Samuel Greenstein, et al v. Federated Meat Corp (Jack Kranis, et al) |
1948 | |
| Box: 18 | Folder : 13 | Simon, Will (pseud? Editor of Morning Freiheit) Clippings and Articles |
1961 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 1 | Smith Act Amnesty Campaign |
Jun 1952-Mar 1960 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 2 | Smith Act Amnesty Campaign Correspondence |
Dec 1957-Jun 1959 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 3 | Smith Act: Examination of Gerson |
Mar 1949 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 4 | Smith Act: Families Committee |
Jul 1952-Jun 1987 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 5 | Smith Act: Gerson Arrest and Acquittal Clippings |
1952 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 6 | Smith Act: Gerson Correspondence |
Aug 1941-Nov 1952 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 7 | Smith Act: Gerson Memos (to National Secretariat CPUSA) etc. |
1950 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 8 | Smith Act: Gerson Testimony |
Aug 23, 1949 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 9 | Smith Act: Gerson Testimony in Cleveland Case |
Jan 1956-Feb 1956 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 10 | Smith Act: Miscellaneous |
1950-1960 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 11 | Smith Act: Record of Cases (By Gerson) |
Oct 1956 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 12 | Smith Act: Right of Counsel (Correspondence, memos, etc) |
Sep 1951-Aug 1955 | |
| Box: 19 | Folder : 13 | Smith Act: U.S. vs. Flynn Clippings |
Feb 1952-Jun 1952 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 1 | Smith Act: U.S. vs. Flynn Correspondence and Documents. |
Dec 1950-Oct 1957 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 2 | Smith Act: Writings (as evidence, etc.) |
Feb 1938-Jun 1982 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 3 | The Smiths (poem/lyric) by Marty Garaway re: Smith Act |
Undated | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 4 | Society of Silurians (New York Journalists Organization) |
1983-1998 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 5 | Speech: Cornell University |
1955 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 6 | Speech: Rutgers University |
Mar 10, 1949 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 7 | Speech: Tribute to a Workings Class Journalist (Harry Raymond aka Harold J. Lightcap) |
1959 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 8 | Speech: Yale University |
Oct 1952-Dec 1952 | |
| Box: 20 | Folder : 9 | Speeches |
1939-1994 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 1 | Stachel, Jack "On the History of CPUSA" Lecture |
Jun 1965 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 2 | Student Material (Gerson) George Washington H.S., City College |
1925-1928 , 1981 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 3 | Gerson Testimony before House Committee on Un-American Activities |
May 2, 1950 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 4 | Third Parties: Speech at Jefferson Forum (Feb.20, 1955) w/Jack McManus: Clippings,
Notes |
Dec 1954-Aug 1956 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 5 | Thompson, Robert |
1943-1966 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 6 | Travel: Bulgaria, etc |
1970-1978 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 7 | Travel: Portugal |
1983 | |
| Box: 21 | Folder : 8 | Travel: Soviet Union |
1975 , 1977 | |
| Box: 22 | Folder : 1 | Third Parties Research Notes [5x8 cards] |
undated | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 1 | Trip to Soviet Union |
1977 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 2 | U.S. Armed Forces: Gerson's WWII Service |
1940-1997 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 3 | U.S. Armed Forces: GI Newspapers |
1944-1945 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 4 | Wheeler, Tim: Report re Alleged Theft of Peoples Weekly World Materials by Carl Bloice
& Barry Cohen |
Jan 24, 1992 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 5 | Writings about Gerson |
1952-1989 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 6 | Writings (as Festus Gunn): "Nikita Sergeyevich in the Unites States" |
1959 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 7 | Writings (as Will Melvin) |
1958-1959 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 8 | Writings: Book Reviews |
Nov 1956-Jun 1991 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 9 | Writings: "Does Nader Candidacy Help the Right Wing?" |
1996 | |
| Box: 23 | Folder : 10 | Writings: Manuscript/Typescript [Published/Unpublished] |
Apr 1957-Nov 1997 | |
| Box: 24 | Folder : 1 | Writings: New Masses |
1946-1947 | |
| Box: 24 | Folder : 2 | Writings: Other Newspapers (not Daily Worker, Peoples Daily World, Peoples Weekly World) |
May 1972-Nov 1995 | |
| Box: 24 | Folder : 3 | Writings: Peoples Daily/Weekly World |
1955-1998 | |
| Box: 24 | Folder : 4 | Writings, Published: Pamphlets & Journal Articles |
Feb 1944-Jan 1993 | |
| Box: 24 | Folder : 5 | Writings: Synopsis and Outline: Labor and Politics |
ca.1938-1939 | |
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Series II: Scrapbooks, undated
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 25 | Folder : 1 | Scrapbook |
undated | |
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Series III: Photographs, 1927-1991
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 1 | American Student Council Delegation to Russia |
1927 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 2 | Cacchione, Peter V. |
1943-1945; undated | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 3 | Cacchione, Peter V.: Funeral Album |
1947 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 4 | Gerson, Simon |
1970-1991 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 5 | Gerson, Simon: City Council Campaign |
1948 | |
| Box: OS003 | Folder : 1 | Graphics (Oversize) |
1938 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 6 | Graphics (Published) |
undated | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 7 | Marcantonio, Vito and Simon Gerson |
1948 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 8 | Negatives |
undated | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 9 | PCI Festical (Modena, Italy) |
1966 | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 10 | Postcard: "Class War Prisoners" |
undated | |
| Box: 32 | Folder : 11-17 | Loose photographs and negatives |
1944-1994 | |
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Series IV: Addendum, 1918-1947; undated
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 1 | Clippings, Miscellaneous |
undated | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 2 | Correspondence |
1918-1920 | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 3 | Labor and Politics" : Research Notes |
undated | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 4 | "Labor and Politics" : Typescript |
undated | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 5 | Proportional Representation: Clippings, etc. |
1947 | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 6 | "A Serious Problem" (re: Catholic education, by Joseph V. McKee) |
undated | |
| Box: 26 | Folder : 7 | Writings, Miscellaneous (Gerson) |
undated | |
| Box: 27 | Unprocessed |
undated | ||
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Series V: Addendum 2011 (Unprocessed), undated
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| Container 1 | Title | Date | ||
| Box: 28 | Papers, Miscellaneous: Campaigns for office and other political activities (printed
ephemera, clippings, correspondence); birthday celebrations and other biographical
materials |
undated | ||
| Box: 29 | Papers, Miscellaneous: Campaigns for office and other political activities (printed
ephemera, clippings, correspondence); birthday celebrations and other biographical
materials |
undated | ||
| Box: 30 | Oversized and Miscellaneous items: Clippings (including Sophie Gerson/Gastonia); a
1948 campaign speech by Gerson on two records; a videocassette from an 80th birthday
celebration for SG; buttons; a rolled high school certificate from 1925, several rolled
clippings and posters |
undated | ||
| Box: 31 | Audio (cassettes and reel to reel tapes): include SG, Gus Hall Updates |
undated | ||
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