Manuscript Group 1608, Guide to the Samuel F. Chetta Papers 1975-1977
TABLE OF CONTENTSDescriptive Summary Container List Clippings, Fyers, Circulars, Minutes, Notes, Book Review, and Photographs. |
 Guide to the Samuel F. Chetta Papers 1975-1977 MG 1608 The New Jersey Historical Society Finding aid encoded by Julia Telonidis. December 2004. Production of the EAD 2002 version of this finding aid was made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary
Biographical NoteSamuel F. Chetta was a member of the New Jersey Socialist Workers Party, the state affiliate of the national party, during the years 1975-1977. He was an active member of the party: speaking at rallies, writing articles for The Militant, the party’s newspaper, and taking photographs. The Socialist Workers Party is a small political party founded in 1938 by members of the Communist Party USA who had been expelled from that group. Since 1948, the party has run candidates for President, receiving its greatest number of votes in 1976 when Peter Camejo ran. In recent years the party’s membership has been in steady decline. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Content NoteConsists of materials collected by Samuel Chetta that document the activities, and his role in them, of the Newark-Weequahic branch of the New Jersey Socialist Workers Party during 1975-1977, including clippings, flyers, circulars, minutes, notes, a book review, and photographs. Many of the flyers announce various New Jersey Socialist Workers Party events and rallies for such movements as abortion rights and the antinuclear movement; some describe the platforms of New Jersey Socialist Workers Party election candidates. Return to the Table of Contents Access Points
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationThis collection should be cited as: Manuscript Group 1608, Samuel F. Chetta Papers, The New Jersey Historical Society. Acquisition InformationPurchased by the New Jersey Historical Society in March 2003. Return to the Table of Contents Bibliography“Socialist Workers Party (USA)” Retrieved on July 25, 2003, from http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Workers_Party_(USA) Return to the Table of Contents Container List |
