Socialist Party of the United States: Personal Papers of Darlington Hoopes, 1917-1968 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Darlington Hoopes (1896-1989) was an American politician and lawyer who served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a member of the Socialist Party of America. He served as chairman of the Socialist Party of America from 1946 to 1968, and was the party's Vice Presidential in 1944, and Presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956. His papers consist of materials that document Hoopes activism, his political career, and his work as a Socialist Party official. Some potential areas of interest include correspondence and records concerning civil rights, equality before the law, fair housing rights, and discrimination in housing for Reading, Pennsylvania; as well as correspondence and photographs from a German POW held in the Soviet Union during World War II.


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