Green, Gil, 1906-1997

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Gil Green (1906-1997), born Gilbert Greenberg in Chicago, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was a Communist youth leader in the 1930s, a member of the Communist Party's Politburo, a Smith Act defendant, and the chief (albeit unofficial) figure of a reformist current in the CPUSA through 1991. He joined the Young Workers League (later the Young Communist League) in 1924, and shortly thereafter, the CPUSA, and in 1932 became national secretary of the YCL, a position he held throughout the decade, training a generation of Party cadres and leading the League to a position of influence in the American Youth Congress. In 1941 Green became head of the Party in New York State, but had to relinquish this title in 1945 due to his association with Earl Browder, the ousted Party head, and moved to Illinois, where he headed that state's Party organization. Convicted under the Smith Act in 1949, Green became a fugitive, surrendered in 1956 and was released from jail in 1961. By 1966, Green was again head of the New York Party, but resigned this position in 1968 to protest the CPUSA's endorsement of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. He remained an elder statesman until 1991, when he left the Party and helped to found the Committees of Correspondence, a social-democratic organization.
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creatorOf Guide to the Gil Green Papers, 1925-1993 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Records, 1892-2009 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
creatorOf Lens, Sidney. Sidney Lens papers, 1910-1986. Chicago History Museum
referencedIn Isserman, Maurice. Which side were you on? : the American Communist Party during the Second World War : interview transcripts and summaries, 1977-1978. Churchill County Museum
referencedIn Guide to the Sender Garlin Letters to Gil Green, 1980-1987, undated Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Guide to the Communist Party of the United States of America Oral History Collection, 1962 - 1992 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Guide to the Committees of Correspondence (U.S) Records, 1991-1997 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Guide to the Simon W. and Sophie Gerson Papers, 1925-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
creatorOf Green, Gil, 1906-1997. Gil Green papers, ca. 1947-1986. Chicago History Museum
referencedIn J. B. Matthews Papers, 1862-1986 and undated David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
referencedIn Earl Browder Papers, 1879-1990 Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
referencedIn Guide to the Church League of America Collection of the Research Files of Counterattack, the Wackenhut Corporation, and Karl Baarslag, 1928-1973 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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associatedWith Bridges, Harry, 1901- person
associatedWith Browder, Earl, 1891-1973 person
associatedWith Brown, Lloyd L. (Lloyd Louis), 1913- person
associatedWith Committees of Correspondence (U.S.). corporateBody
associatedWith Communist Party of the United States of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Communist Party of the United States of America. History Commission. corporateBody
associatedWith Engelstein, David person
associatedWith Engelstein, David. person
associatedWith Garlin, Sender. person
associatedWith Garlin, Sender A. person
associatedWith Gerson, Simon W. person
associatedWith Green, Lil, 1910-1964. person
associatedWith Green, Lil, 1919-1954 person
associatedWith Healey, Dorothy, 1914-2006. person
associatedWith Hyndman, Kate. person
associatedWith Hyndman, Kate. person
associatedWith Isserman, Maurice. person
associatedWith Lebrón, Lolita, 1919- person
associatedWith Lebrón, Lolita, 1919-2010 person
associatedWith Lens, Sidney person
associatedWith Lens, Sidney. person
associatedWith Licht, Mary person
associatedWith Matthews, J. B. (Joseph Brown), 1894-1966 person
associatedWith North, Helen. person
associatedWith North, Helen. person
associatedWith Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. person
associatedWith Schneiderman, William. person
associatedWith Toohey, Pat. person
associatedWith Toohey, Pat. person
associatedWith United States. corporateBody
associatedWith United States. Alien Registration Act, 1940. corporateBody
associatedWith United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. corporateBody
associatedWith Wellman, Saul person
associatedWith Wellman, Saul. person
associatedWith Wofsy, Leon. person
associatedWith Young Communist League of the U.S. corporateBody
associatedWith Young Workers League of America. corporateBody
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Chicago IL US
Ann Arbor MI US
New York City NY US
New Bedford MA US
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Birth 1906-09-24

Death 1997-05-04

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