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Acknowledgments Although most of this book was written during my retirement, its origins and a portion of the research reach back into my teaching years, especially the late 1990s when I was engaged in the work that resulted in the publication of The Suppression of Salt of the Earth: How Hollywood, Big Labor, and Politicians Blacklisted a Film in Cold War America in 1999. As a result of the current project’s evolution over time, it is important to acknowledge the financial support and other assistance afforded me by the University of Wisconsin Colleges, the University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate School, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities. These institutions provided research funds as well as an important sabbatical leave, the latter supplemented by a generous fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A special debt of gratitude is owed the University of Wisconsin–Marathon County, which in recent years has made available the office space, technical support, library services, and supplies necessary to the completion of the research and writing task. Similarly, through its Eminent Scholar program, Gainesville State College in Georgia allowed me the precious time needed to develop important personal contacts in the Southwest and to carry out preliminary research on the life of Clinton Jencks. Essential to this research was the assistance of knowledgeable archivists and librarians at a variety of educational institutions and archival repositories . Especially helpful were David Hays of the University of Colorado Archives and his accommodating staff, as well as Harry Miller of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives and Manuscripts Division, both of whose knowledge of manuscript collections that were vital to the completion of this project eased the research task. The acquisition of source material from distant locations was skillfully managed by University of Wisconsin–Marathon County reference librarian Renee Sikma Wallin, who responded to my endless requests for loan materials cheerfully and promptly. In addition, competent research assistance in accessing the Jack Cargill Papers was provided by Tracey Strottman at the Western New Mexico University’s Miller Library in Silver City, New Mexico. Larry Ceplair and Lia Benedetti Jarrico were both helpful in easing access to the important papers of Paul Jarrico. Lorence_Palomino.indd 7 2/19/13 12:12 PM Others whose professional expertise was valuable to me in exploring and accessing primary source material include Peter Meyer Filardo and Jillian Cuellar at the Tamiment Institute and Robert Wagner Labor Archives at New York University; Christine Marin and Neil Millican of the Arizona State University Chicano Research Collection and Department of Archives and Manuscripts ; Ann Massmann of the University of New Mexico Library’s Center for Southwest Research; Virginia Lewick of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York; Traci Drummond of the Southern Labor Archives at Georgia State University; Julie Herrada of the Joseph Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan; Mike Smith and William LeFevre of the Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University’s Walter P. Reuther Library; Denise Conklin and Diana Shenk at the Pennsylvania State University Pattee Library; Ricardo Trujillo at KRWG-TV in Las Cruces, New Mexico; Barbara Hall of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; Julie Graham at the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections; Ann Fagan Ginger and Jennifer Smith of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute at the University of California in Berkeley; Jessy Randall of the Colorado College Special Collections; Bill Thomas of Pikes Peak Library District Special Collections; Denise K. Anderson of the University of Iowa Library Special Collections; Mitch Fraas at the Duke University Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library; Rod Ross at the National Archives; Gene Vrana of the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen’s Union; and Kenneth Burt of the California Federation of Teachers. Equally important in the completion of the research task were interviews and discussions with veterans of the labor movement that centered on Jencks’s early career, as well as the many comrades in the ongoing social struggles that were part of his life as an engaged scholar. First and foremost, I am indebted to the late Clinton E. Jencks himself, who spent many hours with me and provided valuable insight on his life and ideas through an extended correspondence over the years. Among the most important individuals who willingly shared their own experiences with Clinton Jencks were Muriel SobelmanJencks , his partner in the movement for the last thirty-five years of his life; Linda Jencks...

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