Benjamin Friedlander
Benjamin Max Friedlander
Communist Party
Ben Friedlander had been a delegate to the 1959 Illinois State Convention of the Communist Party USA and had been elected a member of the Illinois State Committee of the Communist Party at the second session of that convention. [1]
IVI
In the early 1960s, Milton Cohen and Ben Friedlander were leaders of the Hyde Park Independent Voters of Illinois[2].
GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee
Circa 1969, Ben Friedlander, Voters Committee to Change, Chicago , was listed as a sponsor of the Socialist Workers Party led GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee .[3]
Committees of Correspondence connection
In 1994 Ben Friedlander, Chicago was listed on a "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" for the Chicago Committees of Correspondence, an offshoot of the Communist Party USA[4]
Salute to Harold Washington
On April 6, 1983, the Hyde Park Herald published an endorsement from the Hyde Park/Kenwood Citizens Committee of Democratic Party Chicago mayoral candidate Harold Washington. Signatories to the endorsement included Benjamin Friedlander and Eva Friedlander.[5]
References
- ↑ "Communist activities in the Chicago, Illinois area. : Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, first session" FEB 15 1966
- ↑ 89th Congress HUAC report Communist Activities in Chicago/Illinois area, May/June 1965
- ↑ Undated, GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee letterhead circa 1969
- ↑ Chicago CoC "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" 10.14.94
- ↑ Hyde Park Herald April 6, 1983, page 8