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1. Interview of Tillie Olsen

Topic:
Social Movements
Literature
Communist Party
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Novelist and short story writer.

2. Interview of Dorothy Healey

Topic:
Social Movements
Literature
Communist Party
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Chair of the Southern California chapter of the Communist Party.

3. Interview of Meridel Le Sueur

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Literature
Communist Party
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Leftist novelist and journalist.

4. Interview of Martha Roth

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...

5. Interview of Joe Passen

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party and union organizer.

6. Interview of Angela Ward

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party and the Independent Progressive Party. Organizer for the Office and Professional Employees Union and the Utility Workers Organizing Committee of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).

7. Interview of Bill Bailey

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party. Served with the Republican forces of the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War.

8. Interview of Ruth Maguire

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party.

9. Interview of Loretta Starvus Stack

Topic:
Social Movements
Literature
Communist Party
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Organizing secretary for the California State Communist Party.

10. Interview of Reeva Olson

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Literature
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Business representative of the Office and Professional Employees International Union.

11. Interview of John and Ethel Rumaker

Topic:
Social Movements
Communist Party
Literature
Labor Movement
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...

12. Interview of John Nichols

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...

13. Interview of Rachel Tilsen

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Daughter of leftist novelist and journalist Meridel Le Sueur.

14. Interview of Edna Whitehouse

Topic:
Social Movements
Labor Movement
Communist Party
Literature
Language:
English
Audio:
Series Statement:
These interviews were conducted by Constance Coiner, a faculty member at SUNY Binghampton and a former graduate student at UCLA, as background for her book Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur. They were donated to UCLA after her death by her husband, Stephe...
Biographical Note:
Member of the Communist Party.