Guide to the Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Papers (Miscellaneous) 1906-1965 Tamiment 132.05

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890-1964) was a leading Irish-American Communist, socialist, feminist, labor organizer, orator, and campaigner for civil liberties. The collection contains correspondence, a scrapbook of clippings covering her speaking tours of 1915-16, published and unpublished writings about women, materials relating to the Communist Party’s litigation contesting the McCarran Act and Smith, and a poem about Carlo Tresca.