Background
Folsom, Franklin Brewster was born on July 21, 1907 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Son of Fred Gorham and Mary Elvira (Elwell) Folsom.
(Behind the unemployment benefits and social security cheq...)
Behind the unemployment benefits and social security cheques that millions of Americans receive today lies a long series of dramatic actions. This book tells the very human story of these actions and reveals the jobless of past depressions as creators of many important features of today's social landscape. The result of more than fifty years of research, this is the definitive study of the activities of America's unemployed throughout US history up to the outbreak of World War 2. Generously illustrated with rare or hitherto unknown photos, drawings, and cartoon, this is a poignant story about triumph in the face of great obstacles, or creative response to hardships by those who had suddenly been cut loose from society, or penniless human beings who have made history. Franklin Folsom, an active participant in the stirring events of the 1930s, presents a moving tribute to the heroism of obscure workers who solved some of the basic social problems they did not create but had to overcome in order to survive and live in dignity. Folsom's smooth and intimate style, coupled with his own perspective of the last half-century, pulls the reader into the very heart of US labour and social history. The result is a work full of compassion as well as information that should become a standard for all interested readers of our long and tumultuous history of organised labour.<
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(A noble dream: To walk across America to demand the end o...)
A noble dream: To walk across America to demand the end of the nuclear arms race. It began in Los Angeles on March 1, 1986 with 1,200 people--old and young, from nearly every state and nine other countries--and nearly ended just two weeks later in the bitter cold and rain of the Mojave Desert with the financial collapse of its sponsor. The press wrote off the Great Peace March. But they underestimated the fierce determination of these Marchers to reach their goal. After an incredible odyssey of hardship, learning, teaching, growing, and spreading the word about the threat to the world that nuclear weapons have come to be, the March reached Washington D.C. on November 15--numbering well over 1,000, including some 300 who made the entire trek. Here is their fascinating story--how they did it, whom they encountered along the way, and what this accomplishment means for the future of the American peach movement.
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(A freed slave became the foreman of a ranch in New Mexico...)
A freed slave became the foreman of a ranch in New Mexico and discovered undisputed evidence that Native Americans had a long history in North America. Ages 12 and up
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(Days of Anger, Days of Hope is the memoir of one of the m...)
Days of Anger, Days of Hope is the memoir of one of the most important organizations of writers in the history of American literature. Franklin Folsom, executive secretary to the League of American Writers for five of its seven years of often controversial activity, brings to life a time when writers became aware of the threats of fascism, and recalls vigorous efforts of many of this country's best writers to rescue from European concentration camps their anti-Nazi colleagues. Founded during the tense, pre-war period of the 1930s, the League sought to promote intellectual and political freedom worldwide. At its peak, it had more than eight hundred members, including many of the most important literary personalities of this century, with whom Folsom had personal dealings: Theodore Dreiser, Dashiell Hammett, Lillian Hellman, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemmingway, Richard Wright, Malcolm Cowley, Ring Lardner, Jr., Archibald MacLeish, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Parker, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Dalton Trumbo, and William Carlos Williams, among many others. This lively history of the League of American Writers provides a unique insider's account of the group's wide-ranging activities, including the organization of four national writers congresses, the establishment of schools for writers, and campaigning for the rights of African Americans, the foreign-born, and labor. No book offers more information about the internal conflicts and external pressures that preceded the demise of the League, which the FBI considered one of the most successful of what it called "Communist front organizations." Folsom has deftly woven his personal anecdotes and writings with League records and FBIfiles to create an engrossing portrait of the organization, its members, and its role during a crucial period in American cultural and social history.
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(A biography of the Black cowboy whose skill with horses w...)
A biography of the Black cowboy whose skill with horses was renowned and whose curiosity led him to discover important archaeological relics.
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Folsom, Franklin Brewster was born on July 21, 1907 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. Son of Fred Gorham and Mary Elvira (Elwell) Folsom.
Student, Dartmouth College, 1924-1925; Bachelor of Arts, University Colorado, 1928; Bachelor of Arts, University of Oxford, 1932; Master of Arts, University of Oxford, 1963.
Instructor, Swarthmore College, 1928-1930; editor, Hunger Fighter, 1934-1935; executive secretary, League American Writers, 1937-1942; executive secretary, New York Council American-Soviet Friendship, 1943; director adult education, Downtown Community School, 1945; staff writer, Tass, 1946-1947; free lance writer, 1948-1995. Chairman Council on Interracial Books for Children, 1965-1969. Visiting lectr.U. Colorado, 1987.
(A freed slave became the foreman of a ranch in New Mexico...)
(Behind the unemployment benefits and social security cheq...)
(A biography of the Black cowboy whose skill with horses w...)
(Days of Anger, Days of Hope is the memoir of one of the m...)
(Details the causes and events of the Pueblo Indians' revo...)
(A noble dream: To walk across America to demand the end o...)
Board of directors Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament, 1986-1988. Served with United States Merchant Marine, 1945-1946. Member Southern American Archeology, Authors Guild, Society Children's Book Writers, Colorado Archaeol.
Society, Colorado Authors League (Top Hand award, 1975, 79, 83, 91), Archaeol. Society New Jersey (vice president 1968-1972).
Married Mary Letha Elting, September 1, 1936. Children: Michael Brewster, Rachel Alice Folsom Moll.