Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Joe Hill Case Materials
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a leading Irish-American Communist, socialist, feminist, labor organizer, orator, and campaigner for civil liberties. Joe Hill (1879-1915), labor songwriter and member of the Industrial Workers of the World, was convicted of murder after a politically charged trial and executed by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915. The collection contains prison letters to Flynn, a letter to William D. Haywood, Hill's "My Last Will" (a poem), letters from defense attorney O. N. Hilton, lyrics of a song by Hill for Flynn's son, Fred ("To Bronco Buster Flynn"), a clippings scrapbook about the case, "Joe Hill Murdered," and a memorial program.
Historical/Biographical Note
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a leading Irish-American Communist, socialist, feminist, labor organizer, orator, and campaigner for civil liberties. Joe Hill (1879-1915), labor songwriter and member of the Industrial Workers of the World (many of his songs appear in the IWW Songbook), was convicted of murder after a politically charged trial and executed by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915.
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Arranged alphabetically in one series.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains prison letters to Flynn, a letter to William D. Haywood, Hill's "My Last Will" (a poem), letters from defense attorney O. N. Hilton, lyrics of a song by Hill for Flynn's son, Fred ("To Bronco Buster Flynn'), a clippings scrapbook about the case, "Joe Hill Murdered," and an undated theatre memorial program from Leipzig, Germany.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection created by the Communist Party of the United States of America was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Joe Hill Case Materials; TAM 529; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Separated from Communist Party of the United States of America Records (TAM 132) in circa 2006. The accession number associated with this collection is 2006.072.
