Manuscripts/13. Politics
Record Group Term
Identifier: Manuscripts/13
Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:
Bernard "Bunny" Solomon papers
Collection
Identifier: M077
Overview
Bernard "Bunny" Solomon was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1923. A member of Northeastern University's Class of 1946, he served in Europe in World War II, returning home to a position in his father's lingerie manufacturing business. He became an active Democrat and was appointed State Purchasing Agent under Governor Foster Furcolo in 1957. Solomon resigned his position in 1960 and became a vice president of the Stop & Shop Companies. In 1982, he left Stop & Shop to become the...
Dates:
1925-2006
John A. Volpe papers
Collection
Identifier: M067
Overview
John Anthony Volpe, born the son of Italian immigrants in 1908, was a successful Massachusetts businessman and accomplished public servant. He served as Commissioner of Public Works in Massachusetts in 1953, was appointed Federal Highway Commissioner under Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957, was elected Governor of Massachusetts three times (in 1960, 1964, and 1966), was appointed Secretary of Transportation under Richard Nixon in 1969, and was appointed Ambassador to Italy in 1972. While Governor...
Dates:
1943-1983
Joseph D. Warren papers
Collection
Identifier: M087
Overview
African American politician and educator Joseph David Warren was born to Geroldine McDaniel Warren and Harold H. Warren in Harlem, New York on April 2, 1938. In 1979, he organized what became known as the "Warren Commission," a political advocacy group that worked to improve the social and economic conditions of minority groups and to ensure that their needs were represented in the Massachusetts and federal governments. Warren served as a political aide and advisor to Michael S. Dukakis...
Dates:
1972-2003; Majority of material found within 1980-1990
Michael Aronson papers
Collection
Identifier: M206
Overview
Michael Aronson was born in the early 1960s. Growing up in Massachusetts, he attended Needham Public Schools. After graduating high school in 1981, he attended the University of Chicago where he earned his BA in 1985. Not long after, Aronson joined Michael Dukakis' presidential campaign and became part of the speechwriting team. After Dukakis lost the presidency, Aronson pursued a career in journalism. Later, he joined the New York Daily News Editorial Board. In 1999, he won a Pulitzer Prize...
Dates:
1982-1988
Michael S. Dukakis Presidential Campaign records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z15-007
Dates:
1987-2007
Michael S. Dukakis Presidential Campaign records
Unprocessed — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Z17-014
Dates:
1988
Michael S. Dukakis Presidential Campaign records
Collection
Identifier: M032
Overview
Michael Stanley Dukakis was born of Greek immigrant parents on November 3, 1933 in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he still resides, as of 2002. He graduated from Brookline High School (1951), Swarthmore College (1955), and Harvard Law School (1960). Michael Dukakis married Katherine Dickson, known as Kitty, in 1963. They have three children, John, Andrea and Kara. Michael Dukakis served for eight years in the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1962-1970) before he lost a bid for...
Dates:
1962-1989; Majority of material found within 1987-1988
National Lawyers Guild. Massachusetts Chapter, Inc. records
Collection
Identifier: M197
Overview
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in New York City in 1936 in response to the conservative American Bar Association. The Massachusetts chapter (NLGMC) formed soon after. At the founding convention in Washington D.C. in 1937, the National group formally opened itself to all lawyers regardless of race, sex, or political beliefs and started campaigning for anti-lynching legislation, legal protections for collective bargaining, full scale social security, and federally funded...
Dates:
1970-2006
Nelson Merced papers
Collection
Identifier: M125
Overview
Nelson Merced, a Latino politician and activist, was born in New York City in 1948. Merced first became politically active in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s, working with squatters in San Juan. He moved back to the United States to attend the University of Connecticut, graduating with a bachelor's degree in anthropology. He did graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, held positions at La Alianza Hispana and the Boston Public Facilities Department, and returned to politics...
Dates:
1966-2002; Majority of material found within 1988-1992
Occupy Boston Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn Library records
Unprocessed
Identifier: Z17-006
Dates:
ca. 2012
Occupy Boston Audre Lorde to Howard Zinn Library records
Unprocessed
Identifier: Z16-056
Dates:
1963-2012-(bulk 2011-2012)
Occupy Boston DVD
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015632125]
Identifier: Z24-014
Dates:
circa 2011-2012
Ronald W. Bailey oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: M153
Overview
In 1989 and 1990, Milton Derr, Mel King, and Byron Rushing, three prominent members of Boston's African American community, were interviewed about their lives and work in preparation for a book by Ronald W. Bailey with Diane Turner and Robert Hayden, entitled Lower Roxbury: A Community of Treasures in the City of Boston. Milton Derr, a painter, illustrator and retired teacher, was born in 1932 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He moved to Boston to study at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and...
Dates:
1989-1990
Sarah Farnsworth papers
Unprocessed — Box 1: [Barcode: 39358015479022,TRF119701074]
Identifier: Z12-045
Dates:
1987-1989