Keynote address for the Progressive Party Convention

Item Information

Title:
Keynote address for the Progressive Party Convention
Description:
Early typed draft with corrections of the keynote address to the Progressive Party Convention explaining the party's platform consists of peace, stopping the Korean War, offering friendship to the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China and to restore and rebuild the United States; discusses American propaganda, socialism, and colonial imperialism; urges voters to vote for Vincent Hallinan in the 1952 presidential election.
Creator:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Date:
July 4, 1952
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Speeches
Drafts (documents)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 202 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 2. Speeches
Subjects:
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1952)--Platforms
Propaganda, American
Imperialism
Socialism--United States
African Americans--United States
Presidents--United States--Election--1952
Peace movements
Korean War, 1950-1953
Places:
United States
Extent:
11 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b202-i044
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Chicago (Ill.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b202-i044