Communist Party USA donates collection to NYU (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Communist Party USA has donated a vast collection of its photographs and documents, including smuggled directives from Moscow, to New York University.

It will take years to catalog and include the collection, which also has original founding papers, personal letters and secret code words, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
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The archives will be kept at the university's Tamiment Library, which describes itself as a global center for "scholarly research on labor and the Left."

NYU issued a statement calling the archives "among the most important ones in the United States documenting the history of the American Left."
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Over the summer, Nash said, the university removed 20,000 books, journals and pamphlets and a million photographs from the party's offices.

NYU plans a symposium about the acquisition on Friday.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/EDUCATION/03/20/nyu.communist.archives.ap/index.html

This should be a great resource for those who missed the memos. :)

[WI_DEM]

1. That will be of interest to historians especially cold war historians.

[AndreaCG]

2. My mother used to babysit for one of the CPUSA mucky mucks

I told her she should apply for her FBI file to see if they tried to decipher the real meaning of "Kim's stools were a little loose today."