1 10 1 https://archive.englewoodmakeshistory.org/files/original/70c6d30d94db1193cc9839a7361b9507.jpg 3c9b5deda3a58a49de3fe9e91da119ab Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource People People An individual. Metadata for a person provides detailed biographical information to describe the life of a historical figure. Birth Date 1902-03-28 Birthplace Englewood, New Jersey, USA Death Date 1995-04-26 Occupation Professor Philosopher Author Activist, Political Source of File Attached “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_Lamont">Corliss Lamont</a>.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 June 2024. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Lamont, Corliss (1902-1995) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Corliss Lamont in the New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967." Ancestry. "Corliss Lamont in the U.S., Newspapers.com™ Marriage Index, 1800s-current." Ancestry. “<a href="http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/183472062/corliss-lamont">Corliss Lamont (1902-1995)</a>.” Find a Grave. "The honing of a humanist." The Guardian, 19 May 1995, p.14. “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corliss_Lamont">Corliss Lamont</a>.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 25 June 2024. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Public Domain Subject The topic of the resource Activism, Political Universities Description An account of the resource Corliss Lamont was an American socialist and philosopher. He received a degree from Harvard and spent 1924 at Oxford. He received a PhD from Columbia University and taught philosophy there. During the 1930s he became involved in political activism becoming a board member and eventual director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He wrote several books including The Philosophy of Humanism (1949). He admired the Soviet Union and was the head of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship (NCASF). He was targeted as a communist by Joe McCarthy but was able to overturn the charges against him. While he supported Marxism, he never joined the Communist Party. In 1952 he ran for senator under the Labor Party and again in 1958 as an Independent-Socialist. In 1964 Lamont sued the Postmaster General for reading and refusing to deliver his mail. The justification was the anti-propaganda law of 1962 that allowed the Postmaster General to destroy possible communist political propaganda. The case went to the Supreme Court and Lamont v. Postmaster General deemed the law unconstitutional. He married Margaret Hayes Irish on June 8, 1928. After they separated, he married Helen Boyden Lamb in 1962. She passed in 1975. His last marriage was to Beth Keehner. He had four children, Margaret "Margot" Hayes Heap, Florence Parmelee Antonides, Hayes Corliss, and Anne Sterling Jafferis. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Colman, David Ludder, Rachelle Communism Education Humanitarianism Marxism Socialism