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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,…

A young Mollie West stands to speak in front of a group of young men and women.

This small book was given to Mollie when she visited Moscow with the other American delegates from the Young Communist League. The inscription inside the front cover reads: "Miss Molly Lieber, from the Young Communist League of the Moscow…

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 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.

James, Mollie, and Steven West spend time as a family in the 1950s.

Travel documents from Mollie's Trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-1946. While in Europe as a delegate to the United States at international youth conventions, Mollie and other members of the American Youth for Democracy (previously Young Communist…

Travel documents from Mollie's Trip to the Soviet Union in 1945-1946. While in Europe as a delegate to the United States at international youth conventions, Mollie and other members of the American Youth for Democracy (previously Young Communist…

Scan of Mollie West’s FBI Case file. Parts of the report are blacked out to preserve confidentiality.