Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Jacob Anderson

Titles: Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project: Interview with Jacob Anderson (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Jacob Anderson was of Finnish ancestry, born in the woods of northern Minnesota. He learned the tenants of socialism from itinerant workers in his father's mill and joined the IWW at age fifteen. In 1928 he joined the Communist Party and worked as an organizer. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Communist Party education effort; Reino Tantilla; farmers' hunger march; Party decision-making; small Minnesota logging operation; Montana mines; Dakota harvesting; Northern Minnesota co-ops; Sacco and Venzetti protest. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: There is a third, unknown interviewer whose voice is very similar to O'Connell's. There may be some confusion. Audio quality was poor and this, combined with Anderson's accent and speech patterns, made accurate transcription difficult. The transcript is only partially edited, and the spellings of many names is only approximate.

Dates

• 02/02/1977 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Anderson, Jacob
• interviewer: O'Connell, Tom
• interviewer: Trimble, Steve

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 30.2
• Accession Number: AV1990.228.46
• Link to Finding Aid

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Twentieth Century Radicalism in Minnesota Oral History Project' <OH 30>

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 23 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:31:00 running time

Subjects

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