| LC control no. | n 79074262 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Peery, Nelson, 1925-2015 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1925 1923-06-22 |
| Place of birth | Saint Joseph (Mo.) |
| Field of activity | Communism |
| Affiliation | United States. Army. Infantry Division, 93rd Young Communist League of the U.S. California Communist League |
| Profession or occupation | Civic leaders Soldiers |
| Found in | His The Negro national colonial question, c1975. African American National Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Peery, Nelson; community activist, communist, soldier; born 22 June 1923 in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States; high school diploma (1942); literary co-editor of literary magazine, Quest, which swept at least six National Scholastic prizes; found way into Young Communist League (YCL) activities; assigned to the segregated Ninety-Third Infantry Division in Fort Huachuca, Arizona; promoted to staff sergeant, assigned to the Pacific Theater, followed by the Philippines (1943-1945); secured army supplies and training manuals Hukbalahap guerillas, led by Philippine communists who had fought the Japanese independently of U.S.-aligned Filipino forces; joined the Provisional Organizing Committee (POC) to reconstitute a Marxist-Leninist Party in the U.S. (1958-1968); led the formation of the California Communist League merging with a splinter of Students for a Democratic Society to form the Communist League, which later adopted the name Communist Labor Party (CLP) (1970)) |
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