John Reed Clubs were an American federation of organizations targeted toward which writers, led by a socially active journalist?
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John Reed Clubs The John Reed Clubs were an American federation of local organizations targeted towards Marxist writers, artists, and intellectuals, named after the American journalist and activist John Reed. Established in the fall of 1929, the John Reed Clubs were a mass organization of the Communist Party USA which sought to expand its influence among radical and liberal intellectuals. The organization was terminated in 1935.
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John Reed (journalist) John Silas "Jack" Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, "Ten Days That Shook the World". He was married to writer and feminist Louise Bryant. Reed died in Russia in 1920 and is one of only three Americans buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis, the others being labor organizer Bill Haywood, and Charles Ruthenburg (the founder of the Communist Party USA).
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Frances Sweeney Frances Sweeney (c. 1908 – June 19, 1944) was a journalist and activist who campaigned against fascism, antisemitism, and political corruption in 1940s Boston. She edited her own newspaper, the "Boston City Reporter", and started the "Boston Herald" Rumor Clinic to combat fascist disinformation. Seeking to counteract the influence of the priest Charles Coughlin, whose antisemitic broadcasts were popular with Boston's Irish Catholics, she led protests and wrote editorials condemning the Christian Front and similar organizations. She was secretary of the American-Irish Defense Association of Boston and vice chairman of the Massachusetts Citizens' Committee for Racial Unity. A Catholic herself, Sweeney was threatened with excommunication when she criticized Cardinal O'Connell for his silence on Catholic antisemitism.
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John Neville Wheeler John Neville "Jack" Wheeler (April 11, 1886 – October 13, 1973) was an American newspaperman, publishing executive, magazine editor, and author. He was born in Yonkers, New York, graduated Columbia University (which holds a collection of his papers), was a veteran of World War I serving in France as a field artillery lieutenant, began his newspaper career at the "New York Herald", and became managing editor of "Liberty". He is known primarily as the founder of several newspaper syndicates, of which the largest was the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA), and through which he employed some of the most noted writing talents of his day.
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Jessica Bennett (journalist) Jessica Bennett is an American journalist who writes on gender, sexuality and culture. She is a contributing writer and columnist for "The New York Times" and a former columnist at "Time". She is the author of "Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace" (HarperCollins, 2016).
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List of members of the League of American Writers The League of American Writers was a so-called "mass organization" initiated by the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) in 1935 and terminated in January 1943. A small and elite organization, the League included professional novelists, playwrights, poets, journalists, and literary critics. Despite the prominent role of the CPUSA in the establishment and control of the League, one should "not" make the assumption that any particular individual on this list was a "Communist," however. The members of the League of American Writers ranged from active and open Communist Party members to "fellow travelers" who consciously followed the party's political line without being subject to the formal discipline of party membership to individuals who merely sympathized with one or another broad policy objective being touted by the League, such as stopping the spread of fascism or supporting the cause of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. Most members belonged to the latter group.
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William D. Johnson (journalist) William D. Johnson is a New York City-based journalist and labor activist who writes on union and workplace issues. Johnson is the former co-editor of Labor Notes.
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Ronald Sanders (writer) Ronald Sanders (July 7, 1932 — January 11, 1991) was an American journalist and writer.
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People's correspondent People's correspondents are a kind of amateur proletarian journalists who have filed reports from the frontlines about the march toward communism since the early years of the Soviet Union. Originally initiated by Vladimir Lenin as a tool for exposing mismanagement and corruption, several million people worked as people's correspondents in their heyday. At the 17th Party Congress in 1934, Joseph Stalin said there were more than 3 million worker and agriculture correspondents.
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John Bright (screenwriter) John Milton Bright (1908-1989) was an American journalist, screenwriter and political activist.
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Mauritz A. Hallgren Mauritz Alfred Hallgren (June 18, 1899 – November 10, 1956) was an American journalist, editor, and author. Hallgren is remembered as a leading liberal public intellectual of the 1930s, writing extensively on current affairs for "The Nation" magazine.
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Eliza D. Keith Eliza Douglas Keith (1854-1939) was an American educator, suffragist, and journalist from California. Keith wrote under the pen names of Erle Douglas and Di Vernon. She wrote for “Demorest's Monthly Magazine,” “Kate Field's Washington,” “Good Housekeeping,” "Alta Californian", "San Francisco "Chronicle," "Examiner" and "Call," and the "San Francisco News Letter". She was a special correspondent of the San Francisco "Recorder-Union", the "Journalist," and "Kate Fields Washington". Keith was a member of Pacific Coast Women's Press Association, the Illinois Press League, the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association. She died in 1939.
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Paul Comly French Paul Comly French (March 19, 1903 – June 3, 1960) was an American reporter, writer, anti-war activist and non-profit executive.
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Harrison J. Pinkett Harrison J. Pinkett (1882 – July 19, 1960) was a journalist and civil rights activist in Washington DC and then a lawyer in Omaha, Nebraska. As a journalist, he was the head of the so-called "Press Bureau" and often used the bureau's collective pen name, "P.S. Twister". In 1907, at the recommendation of friends in the NAACP, he moved to Omaha where he frequently worked in civil rights. He served as a first lieutenant in the 92nd Infantry Division in World War I and frequently defended the rights of black soldiers.
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George Schuyler George Samuel Schuyler ( ; February 25, 1895 – August 31, 1977) was an African-American author, journalist, and social commentator known for his conservativism after he had supported socialism.
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Dwight E. Sargent Dwight Emerson Sargent (3 April 1917 – 4 April 2002) was an American journalist.
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William Marion Reedy William Marion Reedy (1862–1920) was a St. Louis-based editor best known for his promotion of the poets Sara Teasdale, Edgar Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg to the audience of his newspaper, "Reedy's Mirror". Politically, Reedy was a liberal Democrat and advocated Georgist economics.
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John Boyle O'Reilly John Boyle O'Reilly (28 June 1844 – 10 August 1890) was an Irish-born poet, journalist, author and activist. As a youth in Ireland, he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for the Irish community and culture, through his editorship of the Boston newspaper "The Pilot", his prolific writing, and his lecture tours.
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Roi Ottley Vincent Lushington "Roi" Ottley (August 2, 1906 — October 2, 1960) was an American journalist and writer. Although largely forgotten today, he was among the most famous African American correspondents in the United States during the mid-20th century.
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Caroline Augusta Huling Caroline Augusta Alden Huling (April 2, 1856 – March 10, 1941) was an American journalist, philanthropist, editor, publisher and reformer. Huling published "The Bookseller" and edited numerous newsletters, among them "Social Progress", "The Stylus", and "The Sentinel". She also wrote two novels, "The Courage of Her Convictions" (1896) and "Letters of a Business Woman to Her Niece".
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Lillian Ross (journalist) Lillian Ross (June 8, 1918 – September 20, 2017) was an American journalist and author, who was a staff writer at "The New Yorker" for seven decades, beginning in 1945. Her novelistic reporting and writing style, shown in early stories about Ernest Hemingway and John Huston, are widely understood as a primary influence on what would later be called "literary journalism" or "new journalism."
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Myra Nye Myra Sturtevant Nye (May 12, 1875 — January 28, 1955) was a writer, journalist, and clubwoman based in Southern California. She was the women's club editor and Hollywood columnist at the "Los Angeles Times" from 1919 to 1934.