Consumer Reports. William L. Nunn papers, 1928-1940
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Summary
- Creator:
- Consumer Reports (Firm)
- Abstract:
- Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. William L. Nunn was an economist active in labor issues, officer in the American Civil Liberties Union and the first Director of University Relations at the University of Minnesota. The William L. Nunn papers consist of clippings and scrapbooks that document topics of interest to Nunn as well as occupational events in Nunn's life. Topics include activities of the Liberal Club at the University of Pittsburgh; coal mining and miner unrest in Pennsylvania and suppression by the Coal and Iron Police; diversity in political parties; and clippings reporting events pertaining to civil liberties, censorship and repression. Acquired as part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History.
- Extent:
- 1.0 Linear Foot
- Language:
- Materials in English.
- Collection ID:
- RL.11823
Background
- Scope and content:
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The William L. Nunn papers consist of clippings and scrapbooks that document topics of interest to Nunn as well as occupational events in Nunn's life. Topics include activities of the Liberal Club at the University of Pittsburgh; coal mining and miner unrest in Pennsylvania and suppression by the Coal and Iron Police; diversity in political parties; and events pertaining to civil liberties, censorship and repression.
- Biographical / historical:
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Consumer Reports is a product testing and consumer advocacy nonprofit organization based in Yonkers, N.Y., founded in 1936. William L. Nunn was an economist active in labor issues, officer in the American Civil Liberties Union and the first Director of University Relations at the University of Minnesota.
William Lee Nunn was born in 1902 in Georgia. He graduated form Oglethorpe University (AB, ecoonomics, 1922) and taught at Oito College in Japan (1922-1926) before returning to graduate studies at Columbia University (MA 1927). Nunn taught at the University of Pittsburgh (1927-1929) before being fired for radical associations. He later taught at New York University, Dana College, Newark University (Now Rutgers University, 1929-1945), and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Nunn served on the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and became the first Director of University Relations at the University of Minnesota in 1945 where he served until his retirement in 1971. He died in 1991.
Source: Consumer Reports Archives notes, William Nunn papers at the University of Minnesota Archives
- Acquisition information:
- The Consumer Reports. William L. Nunn papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a gift in 2019.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Richard Collier, Mar. 2020;
Accessions described in this collection guide: 2019-0130
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
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