Dates
- 1897-1971
Language of Materials
Collection material in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Fanny Simon was born in 1903 and came to the U.S. from Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War I. A lifelong socialist - she was attracted to the socialists and Eugene Debs for their steadfast opposition to the "capitalists' war" - she joined the Socialist Party in 1929.
She was a brillian student and won a scholarship to Cornell and later went on to Columbia where she received a doctorate in economics. In 1940 she co-authored a book titled 'The American Labor Movement'.
Fanny Simon was a fixture around the United Federation of Teachers well into her 80s, she was one of the founding mothers of Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and the UFT's Women's Rights Committee, and even found time to work with the labor movement in Mexico.
Extent
7 cubic feet
Quantity:
7 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Records (documents) .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, August 18, 2014
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 07, 2019
- Title
- Simon, Fanny Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- March 07, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository