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Sal Gumina Sources

"The New Deal, the Immigrants and Congressman Vito Marcantonio," The International Migration Review, Spring 1970, pp. 57-74.

"Case Studies of Ethnicity and Italo-American Politicians," The Italian Experience in the United States, (Editors: S.M. Tomasi and M. Engel), 1970.

"Vito Marcantonio: The Ideological and Functional Dynamics of a Labor Politician," Labor History, Summer 1972.

"Vito Marcantonio: The Immigrants and Politics — A Conservative or Liberal Influence: The Italo-Americans," in Gli Italiani Negli Stati Uniti, Atti Del III Symposium di Studi Americani, (Firenze, 27-29 Maggio 1969).

 

Books

LaGumina, Salvatore John.  Vito Marcantonio: The People’s Politician. Dubuque, Iowa, 1969.

Meyer, Gerald. Vito Marcantonio: Radical Politician, 1902-1954.  Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.

Ojeda, Felix Reyes.  Vito Marcantonio y Puerto Rico: por los trabajdores y por la nación.  Rió
Piedras, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Huracán, 1978.

Rubinstein, Annette, ed. I Vote My Conscience: Debates, Speeches, and Writings of Vito
Marcantonio, 1935-1950.  New York: Vito Marcantonio Memorial, 1956. Reprinted by the John Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY), 2002.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress.  Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966.

Articles

Berson, Robin. “Vito Marcantonio (December 10, 1902-August 9, 1954): Civil Rights and Freedom of Conscience Advocate.” In Marching to a Different Drummer: Unrecognized Heroes of American History, pp. xx-xx. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994).

Charney [Blake], George. “The Marcantonio Election Campaign.” Political Affairs (Jan. 1951):
80-90.

________, and Testerman, Al. “The People Win with Marcantonio.” Political Affairs (Jan. 1949): 85-94.

________, and Harry Levine. “An Analysis of the New York Elections.” Political Affairs (Jan.
1954): 33-50.

Cordasco, Francesco. “Foreword” in Vito Marcantonio: Debates, Speeches, and Writings 1935-1950. Ed. Annette T. Rubinstein.  Clifton, NJ: Augustus Kelly, 1973.

Fagiani, Gil.  “East Harlem and Vito Marcantonio: My Search for a Progressive Italian-American Identity.” Voices in Italian Americana (Fall 1994): 25-42.

Gerson, Si.  “Vito Marcantonio: From Republican to Radical.” Political Affairs (Nov. 1979): 20-24.

Jackson, Peter.  “Vito Marcantonio and Ethnic Politics in New York.” Ethnic and Racial Studies (Jan. 1983): 50-71.

Lader, Lawrence. “Vito Marcantonio and the Congressional Battleground.”  In Power on the Left: American Radical Movements since 1946, pp. 10-18.  New York: W.W. Norton, 1979.

LaGumina, Salvatore John.  “The New Deal, the Immigrants and Congressman Vito Marcantonio.” International Migration Review (Spring 1970): 57-75.

_________. “Vito Marcantonio: A Study in the Functional and Ideological Dynamics of a Labor Politician.” Labor History (Summer 1972): 374-399.

________. “Case Study in Ethnicity and Italian-American Politicians.”  In The Italian Experience in the United States, pp. 143-161.  Editors, Silvano Tomasi and Madeline Engel. New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1973.

Luthin, Reinhard. “Vito Marcantonio: New York’s Leftist Laborite.”  In American Demagogues: Twentieth Century, pp. 208-235.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1954.

Meléndez, Edgardo. "Vito Marcantonio, Puerto Rican Migration, and the 1949 Mayoral Election in New York City." Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. (Fall 2010): 198-233.

Meyer, Gerald. “Vito Marcantonio y el partido nacionalista puertorriqueno.” Signos (Jan.-Mar. 1980): 2-9.

________. “Vito Marcantonio, Congressman for Puerto Rico: 1934-1950.” Revista  del Colegio
de Abogados de Puerto Rico (Feb. 1982): 67-98.

________. “The F.B.I.’s Surveillance of Rep. Vito Marcantonio.” Our Right to Know (Fall/Winter): 16-18.

________. “Leonard Covello and Vito Marcantonio: A Lifelong Collaboration for Progress.”
Italica (Spring 1985): 54-66.

________. “Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954).”  In Encyclopedia of the American Left, pp. 447-448.  Ed. Mari Jo Buhle, et al. New York: Garland Publishers, 1990.

________. “Vito Marcantonio.” In The American Radical, pp. 269-278.  Eds. Mari Jo Buhle, et al. New York: Routlage, 1994.

________. “Italian Harlem’s Biggest Funeral: A Community Pays Its Last Respects to Vito
Marcantonio.”  Italian American Review (Spring 1997): 110-120.

________. Review of: Greg Mitchell, Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady: Richard Nixon vs. Helen Gahagan Douglas—Sexual Politics and the Red Scare, 1950. In Italian American Review. (Fall 1999): 159-163.

________. “Vito Marcantonio, 1902-1954.” Voices in Italian Americana Vol. 111, No. 2 (2000).

Ojeda Reyes, Félix. “Vito Marcantonio and Puerto Rican Independence.” In Centro (Spring 1992): 58-64.

Robeson, Paul. “Negro Americans Have Lost a Tried and True Friend.”  In Paul Robeson Speaks: Writings, Speeches, Interviews, 1910-1974, pp. 379-822. Ed. Philip Foner. New York: Brenner/Mazel, 1978.

Rouvere, Richard.  “Vito Marcantonio: Machine Politician New Style.”  Harper’s Magazine
(April 1944): 391-398.

Rubinstein, Annette T. “How It Happened: The Creation of I Vote My Conscience: The Debates, Speeches, Writings of Vito Marcantonio.” Italian American Review (Spring/Summer 2002): 111-115.

Simon, John. “Vito Marcantonio: New York’s Radical Congressman,” Monthly Review (April 2006): 25-46.

Sasuly, Richard, “Vito Marcantonio: The People’s Politician.”  In American Radicals: Some
Problems and Personalities, pp. 145-163.  Ed. Harvey Goldberg. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957.

Vega, Bernardo. “Vito Marcantonio: Champion of the Poor and Advocate for the Puerto Rican
People.”  In Memoirs of Bernardo Vega: A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York, pp. 183-190. Ed. César Andreu Iglesias. New York: Monthly Review, 1984.

Waltzer, Kenneth.  “The F.B.I., Congressman Vito Marcantonio, and the American Labor Party.”  In Beyond the Hiss Case: The FBI, Congress, and the Cold War, pp. 176-214. Ed. Athan Theoharis.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982.

Watson, Patrick.  “[Ralph] Fasanella Remembers Marcantonio.” In The Big Book of Italian
 American Culture, pp. 11-12.  Ed. DiStasi, Lawrence.  New York: Harper, 1989.

Primary Sources

Vito Marcantonio Papers: New York Public Library Manuscript Division

Congressional Record: 1935-1936, 1939-1950

New York Times Index: 1934-1954