A 1970 interview conducted by Staughton Lynd of Katherine Hyndman, a one-time unemployed organizer and Communist Party USA member who was jailed and threatened with deportation for her antiwar stance during the 1950s.
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CONTENTS
-Franklin County Funeral
-CIO organizing in southern Illinois
-Communist Party organizing in southern Illinois
-Socialists in southern Illinois
-Work in a clothing factory
-Early job experience
-Work for Bauer and Black Co.
-FBI harassment of CIO organizers
-McCarthy period
-Communist elitism
-Left-wing theory vs. experience
-Depression struggles
-Corruption in the Painters Union
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