Fred Briehl papers

Collection includes correspondence with friends and family members, 1911-1947 (1911-1920 bulk); diaries (1917-1920) written primarily when Briehl was in prison for refusing to serve in the armed forces during World War I; correspondence with various politicians and the media concerning current affairs, 1917-1970; legal documents pertaining to lawsuits, property and patents, 1942-1961, and the 1955 House Un-American Activities Committee investigation of summer camps; tape recordings of interviews and events, 1962-1978; videotapes of home movies taken by Briehl, a clip from "Native Land," a 1942 documentary on civil rights in which Briehl acted, and a documentary film, "Fred Briehl" by Charles Gershwin and Michael Mitchell, containing clips from his home movies and interviews during 1970-1971; student notebooks and papers, 1914-1920; scrapbooks and clippings, 1915-1974; correspondence, broadsides, handouts and speeches relating to activities in the Communist Party and the Dairyman's League, the Farmer's Union, and the Farmer's Emergency Committee; records from his dairy farm, 1927-1944; issues of THE FARM FRONT, published by the New York Farm Commission of the Communist Party, (1943-1959) and edited by or with Briehl; pamphlets and miscellaneous publications concerning communism, socialism, agriculture, pacifism, and radical causes.