General secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the Party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its President, however he was expelled in 1946 following a debate over Party leadership.
Correspondence (1891-1960); general files (1904-1961), mostly relating to the workings of the C.P.U.S.A. and Browder's role within the Party; manuscripts (1924-1967) of Browder and others, including Browder's manuscripts for articles, books, memoranda, news releases, pamphlets, reports, and speeches; photographs of Browder, his family, and friends; and legal files (1938-1958). Correspondence includes that of the American Civil Liberties Union, Roger Baldwin, Daniel Bell, Bruce Bliven, Louis B. Boudin, Raissa Browder, Juan Corretjer, Theodore Draper, Elizabeth Flynn, William Z. Foster, Joseph Freeman, Frederick Ernest Johnson, Alfred Kohlberg, Robert S. Minor, Augustus Richards, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Anna Rochester, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph R. Starobin, I.F. Stone, John Strachey, Anna Louise Strong, Dirk Jan Struik, Norman Thomas, Harry Frederick Ward, Sumner Welles, and others. Legal files contain correspondence, reports, depositions, testimonies, transcripts of court porceedings, briefs, and printed material relating to the various court cases in which Earl and wife Raissa were involved, including Browder's 1939-40 fraudulent passport case, his contempt of Congress case in 1951, and the deportation proceedings against Raissa (1943-44). The collection also includes Browder's personal library and other published materials.
Dates: 1879-1967
Size of Collection: 52.0 linear ft.
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