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(44) "Reminiscences of Broadus Mitchell," 89-90.
(45) "Reminiscences of Broadus Mitchell." 91, 106, 147; Hall, "Broadus Mitchell,"
31-3; "Jacob Hollander," Wio's Who in America, 1897-1942,579.
(46) Interview with Frank Trager, May 17,1973; Riches to Rosenzwieg, April 87,
1973; Sun, January 13,1933, June 10,1934.
(47) Riches to Rosenzweig, April 7,1973; Interview with Frank Trager, May 17,
1973.
(48) Riches to Rosenzweig, April 7,1973.
(49) Argersinger, Toward a New Deal, 90-1; Charles M. Kimberly "The Depression
and the New Deal in Maryland," (Ph.D. dissertation, American University, 1974),
218.
(50) Interview with Frank Trager, May 17, 1973.
(51) "Platform of the Socialist Party of Maryland," 1930; Trager to Thomas, March
7,1934; Interview with Frank Trager, May 17,1973; Interview with Juanita Jackson
Mitchell, (session 1), February 20,1987. Harvard Sitkoff argues that some shift
toward anti-racist activity occurred in the SP on the national level from 1929 on,
but did not become a real trend until 1933 - partly, no doubt, because of the
pressure of younger, more consistently anti-racist Socialist militants. Harvard
Si tkoff, A New Deal for Blacks; the Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: the
Depression Decade (New York: 1978), 161-4. As chapter 10 above indicates, some
of the younger African American activists in Baltimore were gravitating toward
Socialism by 1934. Edward Lewis was only major Black activist who was close to
white Socialist militants in the early 1930s — indeed, from the time of his arrival in
Baltimore in 1931.
(52) Hall, "Broadus Mitchell," 31; "Reminiscences of Broadus Mitchell," 115-119;
Ralph L. Pearson, The National Urban League Comes to Baltimore," Maryland
Historical Magazine, 523-533; Dorothy Brown "Maryland Between the Wars," in
Maryland: A History, 1632-1974, edited by Richard Walsh and William Lloyd Fox
(Baltimore: 1974), 690.
(53) Hayward Farrar, "See What tiicAJro Says: the Baltimore Afro-American, 1892-
1950" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1983), 204-7; "Reminiscences of
Broadus Mitchell" (1972), 115-8; Interview with Evelyn Burrell, October 4.1987;
Interview with Juanita Jackson Mitchell (session 1), February 20,1987; Sun,
February 27, August 15,1930, May 17, October 7, 1932.
(54) Interview with Sigmund Diamond (session 1), April 19,1988.
(55) Interview with Edward Lewis, April 4,1985; Interview with Frank Trager, May
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