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Leslie Carlton Clark was born in St. Paul, 1901. He served in the US Navy and married Lillian Booth on March 20, 1925....
09/05/2026

Leslie Carlton Clark was born in St. Paul, 1901. He served in the US Navy and married Lillian Booth on March 20, 1925. Imprisoned in WA by 1930, he joined the CPUSA by 1934. He arrived in Spain on August 15, 1937 and served with ALB until he was KIA on February 14, 1938.

DeWitt Webster Parker was born in Boston, 1910. He worked as an accountant, statistician and textile worker. He joined...
09/04/2026

DeWitt Webster Parker was born in Boston, 1910. He worked as an accountant, statistician and textile worker. He joined the CPUSA and married Esther Hauser in 1933. He sailed for Spain on March 12, 1937 and helped smuggle volunteers until he arrived on July 11, 1937.

DeWitt served with ALB until he was KIA on March 10, 1938. The son of a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan, his death was widely reported in newspapers across the US.

09/03/2026

Between the Wars is a critically acclaimed 16-episode documentary series released in 1978, hosted and narrated by the legendary former CBS News correspondent Eric Sevareid. The television series meticulously explores the turbulent political, social, and diplomatic crises that occurred globally between the end of World War I in 1918 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This clip from the series features the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

09/02/2026

Abe Osheroff was born in Brooklyn in 1915. He was a neighborhood activist at sixteen, a student activist at City College, and then did some organizing for the CIO. He went to Spain in 1937. On his return he was a union organizer, headed the Communist Party's Jewish Commission, and worked in the South. He is a carpenter by trade and has helped build housing in Nicaragua. He has also made two documentary films on the Spanish Civil War: Dreams and Nightmares (1974) and Art in the Struggle for Freedom (2000).

09/01/2026

Between the Wars is a critically acclaimed 16-episode documentary series released in 1978, hosted and narrated by the legendary former CBS News correspondent Eric Sevareid. The television series meticulously explores the turbulent political, social, and diplomatic crises that occurred globally between the end of World War I in 1918 and the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This clip from the series features Professor George Kennan from the Institute of Advanced Studies.

Steve Tsermegas was born in Ikaria, 1903. He served in the Greek Army and worked as a cook until he arrived in the US ...
08/31/2026

Steve Tsermegas was born in Ikaria, 1903. He served in the Greek Army and worked as a cook until he arrived in the US in 1921. He traveled from Egypt and France before the US. He was a member of the FWIU and the CPUSA before he arrived in Spain in January 1937.

Steve served with ALB from Jarama to Ebro and was WIA twice. He returned to the US as a stowaway on September 21, 1938.

In 1954, he was deported from the US to Poland for his communist activism. In 1986, he co-published No Pasaran: Greek Antifascist Volunteers in Spain

John Jacob Weinroth was born in Mogilev, 1905. He arrived in the US on November 1, 1923. He studied at the Peabody and...
08/29/2026

John Jacob Weinroth was born in Mogilev, 1905. He arrived in the US on November 1, 1923. He studied at the Peabody and Curtis Institutes. A composer, he joined the AFM in 1925 and the CPUSA in 1926. He arrived in Spain on February 16, 1938 using a fake Spanish passport.

John went by Lan Adomian Waisman before and after Spain. He served with ALB on the cultural commission until he returned to the US on December 20, 1938. He continued to work as a prolific composer but moved in Mexico by 1952 in protest of McCarthyism. He passed on May 9, 1979.

A multi-volume autobiography “La voluntad de crear” (The Will to Create) was posthumously published in 1980.

Harry Nobel was born in Mielec, 1900. He arrived in the US on July 11, 1921 and became a citizen on on July 26, 1926. ...
08/28/2026

Harry Nobel was born in Mielec, 1900. He arrived in the US on July 11, 1921 and became a citizen on on July 26, 1926. He worked as a furrier and joined the CPUSA in 1933. He arrived in Spain on April 2, 1937 and served with ALB until he returned to the US on April 14, 1938.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was made up of almost 2,800 people who left the United States to fight fascism in Spain.Ever...
08/27/2026

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was made up of almost 2,800 people who left the United States to fight fascism in Spain.

Every name in ALBA’s public veteran database represents a story that deserves to be preserved. They were workers, students, artists, teachers, immigrants and children of immigrants, organizers, medical professionals, writers, and ordinary people who understood that fascism was not to be ignored.

Today, ALBA works to keep their stories accessible through our public Volunteer Database, educational resources, and public programs.

As Shantha Susman, ALBA Board Member and granddaughter of Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran Bill Susman, writes:

“My grandfather and his comrades left everything behind to fight fascism in Spain. We must ask ourselves: What are we willing to do now?”

Your gift to ALBA helps maintain and expand the public Abraham Lincoln Brigade veteran database and keep this history available to all.

For a limited time when you give $100 or more, you will receive a free ALBA T-shirt: https://alba-valb.org/shop-donate/

ALBA joins millions around the world in mourning Dolly Parton (1946–2026), a one-of-a-kind working class hero whose warm...
08/26/2026

ALBA joins millions around the world in mourning Dolly Parton (1946–2026), a one-of-a-kind working class hero whose warmth and generosity touched people around the world.

Dolly Parton’s classic song “9 to 5”, released on November 3, 1980, turned the daily experience of exploitation into an anthem that working class people could identify with.

On December 19, 1980, Dolly made her film debut alongside actor/activist Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin in the Hollywood comedy “9 to 5” when the film premiered in theatres. Pictured in the second photo are Dolly and Jane. The film brought to light indignities women faced in the workplace, including harassment and unequal pay, before a mass audience.

Importantly, behind the Hollywood film was a real movement: 9to5, a coalition of working women organizing for fair pay, opportunity, and dignity at work.

Together with some coworkers, ALBA Honorary Board Member Karen Nussbaum founded 9to5, and later also a union to support and organize secretaries. These organizations changed the public’s notion of who and what constituted both the women’s movement and the labor movement.

As part of our Susman Lecture Series in 2023, we were happy to host a conversation with Karen Nussbaum and Friend of ALBA Margo Feinberg. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPrNMyjXqn0

In 2021, the documentary 9to5: The Story of a Movement, directed by Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar, featured some interviews with 9to5’s founders, as well as with Jane Fonda. The film covers the previously untold story of the fight that inspired Dolly Parton’s hit song and changed the workplace.

Learn more about the film here: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/9to5-the-story-of-a-movement/

Today, we honor Dolly Parton’s life and the solidarity her work garnered across generations of people. She will be truly missed.

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