{"id":33644,"date":"2022-06-15T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/?page_id=33644"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:23:56","slug":"fromkin-memorial-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/libraries\/special\/collections\/fromkin-memorial-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Fromkin Memorial Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Morris Fromkin Memorial Collection was launched in 1970 with seed money donated in memory of Morris Fromkin, who died in 1969. The donors were Morris Fromkin\u2019s widow, Selma Fromkin, and his three children, Marcia Fromkin Prester, Sari Fromkin Magaziner, and David H. Fromkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Collection is now fully supported by the 51ÁÔÆæ Libraries. The Collection\u2019s broad theme is social justice in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also contains materials on European and Asian ideas and movements \u2014 for example, the Russian and Chinese Revolutions, the rise of Fascism in Europe, the Civil War in Spain, the social insurance, city planning, and housing reform movements in England and Germany\u2013that affected the American Left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morris Fromkin\u2019s interest in social justice and his legal work for the labor movement and pro bono <\/em>work for the poor inspired this theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fromkin Collection covers a variety of subjects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n