Mimi Pichey Collection on Socialist Travel
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Mimi Pichey was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. In January 1980, Pichey traveled to Cuba on a fact-finding trip. She recounted these experiences and shared slides at Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report in Saint Paul, Minnesota on February 24, 1980. The Mimi Pichey Collection on Socialist Travel consists of materials collected by Pichey documenting her travel to and presentations about Cuba, Grenada, Nicaragua, and the Soviet Union in the late 20th century. Materials in this collection include color slides Mimi Pichey captured during a trip to Cuba in January 1980, as well as a speech, promotional event flier, and audio recording of her presentation at Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report on February 24, 1980 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Organized by the Socialist Workers Party, Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report featured Pichey sharing her experiences and findings about the political status of Cuba from her trip. The collection also includes correspondence, itineraries, travel ephemera, such as a map of Havana and a restaurant menu. Other materials include a script for a separate presentation, a labor publication, meeting notes, and outgoing correspondence.
Biographical Note
Miriam "Mimi" Dale Pichey was a member of the Socialist Workers Party. She grew up in San Francisco, California, the daughter of Community Party sympathizers. She attended her first demonstration in 1960, an anti-nuclear war rally sponsored by Women for Peace. Through the 1960s she was active in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War effort. After brief encounters with SOEAL (Students Organized Education and Action League), a high school group affiliated with the DuBois Clubs in San Francisco in 1965, and SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in 1968-1969 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Pichey joined the Young Socialist Alliance in 1969 and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1973. In January 1980, Pichey traveled to Cuba on a fact-finding trip. She recounted these experiences and shared slides at Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report in Saint Paul, Minnesota on February 24, 1980. She also travelled to Nicaragua, Grenada, and the Soviet Union. She left the SWP in 1984.
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are arranged in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Mimi Pichey Collection on Socialist Travel consists of materials collected by Pichey documenting her travel to and presentations about Cuba, Grenada, Nicaragua, and the Soviet Union in the late 20th century. Materials in this collection include color slides Mimi Pichey captured during a trip to Cuba in January 1980, as well as a speech, promotional event flier, and audio recording of her presentation at Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report on February 24, 1980 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Organized by the Socialist Workers Party, Cuba Today: An Eyewitness Report featured Pichey sharing her experiences and findings about the political status of Cuba from her trip. The collection also includes correspondence, itineraries, travel ephemera, such as a map of Havana and a restaurant menu. Other materials include a script for a separate presentation, a labor publication, meeting notes, and outgoing correspondence.
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Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Because of the assembled nature of this collection, copyright status varies across the collection. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items in the collection. Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives is not authorized to grant permission to publish or reproduce materials from this collection.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Mimi Pichey Collection on Socialist Travel; TAM 789; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collection donated by Mimi Pichey, likely in 1999. In November 2022, Pichey donated an accretion to the collection; the accession number associated with this gift is 2023.011.
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Processing Information
At the time of accessioning, materials were rehoused in archival boxes and folders and described on the collection-level. In 2023 the collection title was changed to reflect Pichey's travel beyond Cuba.
