Records of the United Progressive Democratic Club of the 47th Assembly District, 1930-2004. 1.5 linear feet (3 boxes).
ArMs 2005.018
This collection contains the records of the United Progressive Democratic Club of the 47th Assembly District in Brooklyn, New York, New York State. The collection material dates from 1930 to 2004—tracing the club through name changes and the re-numbering of its district—and documents the Club’s activities and interests, including meeting announcements and minutes, member rosters, correspondence of Club chairmen, and yearbooks of the Club’s annual dinner-dances.
The Club began as a small community branch of the Democratic Party of New York State. Under the leadership of the Honorable Kenneth F. Sutherland (d.1954), who served as the Democratic leader of the 16th Assembly District and New York State Executive Chairman until his death, the Club became highly active in communal activities. The United Progressive Democratic Club’s involvement in Brooklyn activism included public school education and the testing of mentally-impaired children by the education board, low-income housing and re-housing of senior citizens, the rise in popularity of the American Communist Party amongst Brooklyn residents in the 1950s, and employment assistance for recently arrived immigrants living in Brooklyn.
Subjects:
- Brownstein, Irwin R. (1930-)
- Lewis, Albert B. (1925-)
- Pino, Frank J.
- Rockwell, George Lincoln (1918-1967)
- Sutherland, Kenneth F.
- American Communist Party
- American Nazi Party
- Democratic Party (New York, N.Y.)
- United Progressive Democratic Club of the 47th Assembly District (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- United Regular Democratic Organization of the 16th Assembly District (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) – Politics and government
- Politics – New York (State)