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Summary Information
Civil Rights Defense Committee Records 1941-1958
- Civil Rights Defense Committee
Mss 79
0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records of the Civil Rights Defense Committee (CRDC), an organization formed in 1941 which unsuccessfully fought the conviction of 18 members of the Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544. In the first conviction under the Smith Act, the defendants were jailed for their membership in the Socialist Workers Party. In addition to files on the above case, sometimes known as the “Minnesota labor case,” there are files on the committee's defense of Local 544 officers Kelly Postal and Carl Skoglund and on three marginally-related cases. Included are correspondence, legal records, publicity, clippings, and financial records. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00079
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