Wednesday Jun 3, 2026 1:00pm, Eastern Time sponsored by Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, Workers Circle, Tamiment Library at NYU, and Kheel Center at Cornell University free with registration at https://yivo.org/International-Workers-Order
>From Popular Front to Cold War tells the story of the International Workers >Order (IWO), an organization founded in 1930 by leftist Yiddish speakers to >provide life, burial, and health insurance to its members. The IWO broadened >its mission to promote interracial solidarity, support labor unions, combat >racism and antisemitism, and champion progressive social programs from the >Great Depression into the postwar era. At its height, the IWO had almost two hundred thousand members drawn from a broad ethnic and racial spectrum of the working class. It operated summer camps, published foreign-language newspapers, and supported a wide range of cultural activities. An early advocate for the US's entry into World War II, the IWO was ahead of its time in championing the nascent Civil Rights movement and Black leadership. Its leaders and activists included Clara Lemlich Shavelson, Ruth Rubin, Itche Goldberg, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Louise Thompson Patterson, and Vito Marcantonio. After the war, it was declared a subversive organization due to its ties to the Communist Party and disbanded in 1954, though its legacy as a model for working-class cooperation across racial and ethnic differences endures to this day. Join co-editor and contributor ** Elissa Sampson and contributors Jennifer Young and Felicia Bevel about this book, in a discussion led by Kate Rosenblatt. B -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41897): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41897 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119582214/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
