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This envelope held a letter from Carl to Mollie.

Mollie West talks to another CLUW activist at a rainy picket line in 1985.

Mollie West was a delegate for the CTU at the AFL-CIO convention many times. Her collection includes delegate medals from 1965, 1966, 1967, and 1969.

The first page of a Youth Lobby book. This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having…

This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having participated. Mollie West attended the trip,…

This announcement of the creation of the World Federation of Democratic Youth was released after the World Youth Conference in London in 1945. Mollie attended the Conference as a delegate of the United States.

A meeting of the Chicago Typographical Union in 1969. Mollie West appears on the left side of the photograph.

A portrait of Mollie Lieber West as a young woman.

United Auto Workers recruit union members outside the Curtiss Wright Corporation airplane plant in Buffalo, New York. Mollie West's first husband, Carl Lieber, helped start the Chicago chapter of UAW and is in the left side of this photo.

This press release announced that the House Un-American Activities Committee would hold hearings on youth Communist activities. Mollie West would be called for these hearings because of her previous involvement with the Young Communist League.