Reminiscences of Ben Davidson, 1978.

Biographical Note

Politician

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Pittsburgh; education, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Columbia, 1921; early involvement with labor unions, 1920s-1930s; New Yok City public school teaching career; Director, Worker's School, 1925-29; political movements, 1920s-1940s; Director, American Labor Party, 1943-44; Executive Director, Liberal Party of New York State, 1944-77: founding convention, organizational development, fund raising, relationship of Democratic, Conservative and Liberal Parties in New York City and state; legal actions against Liberal Party; detailed chronological account of city, state, and national campaigns 1944-77. Impressions of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, Herbert H. Lehman, Rudolph Halley, Alex Rose, John Lindsay, many others

Subjects

• American Labor Party of the State of New York.
• Davidson, Ben--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Labor unions.
• Liberal Party of New York State.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--20th century.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politicians--United States--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984