Mike Gold
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Michael Gold was the pen-name of Jewish-American writer Itzhok Isaak Granich. A lifelong communist, Gold was a novelist, journalist, magazine editor, newspaper columnist, playwright, and literary crit
Mike Gold speaking to a New York crowd on May Day in the 1930s
Gold c. 1922–1923
Gold c. 1937
Poster for Battle Hymn, which opened 22 May 1936
John Howard Lawson
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John Howard Lawson was an American playwright, screenwriter, arts critic, and cultural historian. After enjoying a relatively successful career writing plays that were staged on and off Broadway in th
Portrait by Harris & Ewing
"The Hollywood Ten" stand with their attorneys outside district court in Washington, D.C. before arraignment on contempt of Congress charges. The ten were charged for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. (Front row, L-R): Herbert Biberman, attorney Martin Popper, attorney Robert W. Kenny, Albert Maltz and Lester Cole. (Second row, L-R): Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Alvah Bessie and Samuel Ornitz. (Top row, L-R):
Rep. J. Parnell Thomas shown in 1939
Lawson on the cover of Masses & Mainstream, April 1951