Myra Page studied anthropology under Franz Boas, Melvin Herskovitz, and Franklin Giddings.
23 Facts About Myra Page
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Myra Page studied writing under Helen Hunter in the English department.
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Myra Page chose amalgamated for its emphasis on Progressivism and education.
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Myra Page married fellow teacher and fellow John Markey, and together they joined the American Federation of Teachers union there.
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In June 1928, Myra Page earned her PhD in sociology with double minor in Economics and Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
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In October 1929, Myra Page was one of scores of founding members of the John Reed Clubs.
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Myra Page's "group" included: Grace Lumpkin, Katharine DuPre Lumpkin, Dorothy Douglas, Ben Appel, Sophie Appel.
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Some time in 1929, Myra Page began novels about the Gastonia Strike: Myra Page's novel was Gathering Storm: A Story of the Black Belt, published in 1932.
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Myra Page wrote for Southern Workman, Working Woman, and the CPUSA newspaper The Daily Worker.
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Myra Page recruited her brother Barham and sister Bert to contribute stories.
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Myra Page quarreled with Foster over his position but did cover the strike in the July 1931 issue.
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Myra Page was already best at academic teaching and research.
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Myra Page spent two years in Moscow, whence she wrote for American socialist journals as well as the Soviet communist publication Moscow News.
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Myra Page joined the editorial board of Soviet Russia Today, a Soviet-backed magazine edited by Jessica Smith, wife of Harold Ware.
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On May 1,1935, Page joined the League of American Writers, whose members included Alexander Trachtenberg of International Publishers, Frank Folsom, Louis Untermeyer, Bromfelds, I F Stone, Millen Brand, Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett.
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Myra Page met FLOTUS Eleanor Roosevelt when she came to visit the college.
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Beal was later to write disaparagingly of those westerners who, like Myra Page, were made comfortable in Moscow by the party-state bureaucracy he identified as a "new exploiting class".
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Myra Page stayed through mid-year 1933, by which time Beal in Kharkov, but not she in Moscow, witnessed the famine produced by Stalin's collectivisation policies.
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Myra Page was part of our disillusionment, but he wan't the reason we got out.
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Myra Page never testified before any congressional or other committees during the McCarthy Era, though the FBI did interview her; they failed to connect "John Barnett" with John Markey, however.
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Myra Page calls Mary Heaton Vorse's account Gastonia as more reportage than novel.
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Myra Page considers the account of Olive Tilford Dargan, Call Home the Heart well written though romanticized.
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Myra Page considers Grace Lumpkin's book To Make My Bread equal to her own because they both "wrote from the same orientation" as Southern women who had seen poverty.