POLITICAL PARTY

See also Communist Party.

Official Website:
http://www.cpusa.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Herbert J. Biberman	Screenwriter	4-Mar-1900	30-Jun-1971	Blacklisted screenwriter
Marc Blitzstein	Composer	2-Mar-1905	22-Jan-1964	The Cradle Will Rock
Daniel Boorstin	Historian	1-Oct-1914	28-Feb-2004	The Creators
Paul Bowles	Author	30-Dec-1910	18-Nov-1999	The Sheltering Sky
Whittaker Chambers	Author	1-Apr-1901	9-Jul-1961	Accuser of Alger Hiss
Lester Cole	Screenwriter	19-Jun-1904	15-Aug-1985	Born Free
Jeff Corey	Actor	10-Aug-1914	16-Aug-2002	Little Big Man
Edward Dahlberg	Author	22-Jul-1900	27-Feb-1977	Because I Was Flesh
Angela Davis	Activist	26-Jan-1944		Black Panther, teacher, professor
Theodore Draper	Historian	11-Sep-1912	21-Feb-2006	The Roots of American Communism
Theodore Dreiser	Novelist	27-Aug-1871	28-Dec-1945	An American Tragedy
W. E. B. Du Bois	Sociologist	23-Feb-1868	27-Aug-1963	Civil rights activist
Max Eastman	Author	12-Jan-1883	25-Mar-1969	Socialist writer, later embraced McCarthyism
Howard Fast	Novelist	11-Nov-1914	12-Mar-2003	Spartacus
David Greenglass	Spy	2-Mar-1922	1-Jul-2014	Gave atomic secrets to Julius Rosenberg
Gus Hall	Activist	8-Oct-1910	13-Oct-2000	Leader, Communist Party USA
Dashiell Hammett	Author	27-May-1894	10-Jan-1961	The Maltese Falcon
Harry Hay	Activist	7-Apr-1912	24-Oct-2002	Gay activist, founder The Mattachine Society
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
Granville Hicks	Critic	9-Sep-1901	18-Jun-1982	Marxist critic, The Great Tradition
Alger Hiss	Government	11-Nov-1904	15-Nov-1996	Accused spy for the Soviet Union
Paul Jarrico	Screenwriter	12-Jan-1915	28-Oct-1997	Tom, Dick and Harry
Jim Jones	Religion	13-May-1931	18-Nov-1978	Led mass People's Temple suicide
Ring Lardner, Jr.	Playwright	19-Aug-1915	31-Oct-2000	Screenwriter, M*A*S*H
Lyndon LaRouche	Economist	8-Sep-1922		Eccentric economist politician
Marc Lawrence	Actor	17-Feb-1910	28-Nov-2005	Prolific character actor
John Howard Lawson	Playwright	25-Sep-1894	11-Aug-1977	One of the Hollywood Ten
Grace Lumpkin	Novelist	3-Mar-1891	1980	To Make My Bread
Albert Maltz	Playwright	28-Oct-1908	26-Apr-1985	One of the Hollywood Ten
Ruth McKenney	Author	18-Nov-1911	25-Jul-1972	My Sister Eileen
Frank S. Meyer	Author	9-May-1909	1-Apr-1972	In Defense of Freedom
Jessica Mitford	Journalist	11-Sep-1917	23-Jul-1996	The American Way of Death
Queen Mother Moore	Activist	27-Jul-1898	7-May-1997	Republic of New Africa
Conlon Nancarrow	Composer	27-Oct-1912	10-Aug-1997	Studies for Player Piano
Clifford Odets	Playwright	18-Jul-1906	14-Aug-1963	Sweet Smell of Success
Marvin Olasky	Pundit	12-Jun-1950		The Tragedy of American Compassion
Frank Oppenheimer	Physicist	14-Aug-1912	3-Feb-1985	Founder of the Exploratorium
Larry Parks	Actor	13-Dec-1914	13-Apr-1975	Named names before HUAC
Lucy Parsons	Anarchist	1853	7-Mar-1942	Anarchist labor organizer
Philip Rahv	Critic	10-Mar-1908	22-Dec-1973	Co-Founder, Partisan Review
Jack Reed	Activist	22-Oct-1887	19-Oct-1920	Ten Days That Shook the World
Paul Robeson, Jr.	Activist	2-Nov-1927	26-Apr-2014	Son of Paul Robeson
Ethel Rosenberg	Relative	28-Sep-1915	19-Jun-1953	Executed for being married to Julius Rosenberg
Julius Rosenberg	Spy	12-May-1918	19-Jun-1953	Leaked atomic bomb secrets to USSR
Robert Rossen	Screenwriter	16-Mar-1908	18-Feb-1966	The Hustler
Henry Roth	Author	8-Feb-1906	13-Oct-1995	Call It Sleep
Samuel Rubin	Business	1901	21-Dec-1978	Founder of Fabergé Cosmetics
Bayard Rustin	Activist	17-Mar-1910	24-Aug-1987	Organized the 1963 March on Washington
Budd Schulberg	Novelist	27-Mar-1914	5-Aug-2009	What Makes Sammy Run?
Morton Sobell	Spy	11-Apr-1917		Rosenbergs' co-conspirator
Jim Thompson	Novelist	27-Sep-1906	7-Apr-1977	Heed the Thunder
Dalton Trumbo	Author	9-Dec-1905	10-Sep-1976	Johnny Got His Gun
Hazel Wolf	Activist	10-Mar-1898	19-Jan-2000	Seattle environmental activist
Bertram D. Wolfe	Historian	19-Jan-1896	21-Feb-1977	Three Who Made a Revolution
Richard Wright	Author	4-Sep-1908	28-Nov-1960	Native Son

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