Philip S. Foner - RIP

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http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/15/obituaries/philip-s-foner-labor-historian-and-professor-84.html

Philip S. Foner, an eminent Marxist labor historian who won an apology from City College 40 years after a hunt for Communists cost him his position there, died on Tuesday at Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia after a long illness. He was 84.

The cause of death was cardiac arrest, said his daughter Laura.

Dr. Foner, professor emeritus of history at Lincoln University at Lincoln University, Pa., was the author of more than 110 published works, among them "Organized Labor and the Black Worker," published in two editions in 1974 and 1982; the two-volume "Women in the American Labor Movement," published in 1979 and 1980 and "American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century," published in 1975. For this book, Dr. Foner was awarded the Deems Taylor Award, presented by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, known as Ascap.

Dr. Foner was also the author of "Life and Writings of Thomas Paine" (1946), five volumes of "Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass" (1949-1952) and the two-volume "History of Cuba and Its Relations With the United States" (1962-1963).

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