1970 oral history interview with Katherine Hyndman

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.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on June 2, 2015

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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