Charles H. Kerr

For other people named Charles Kerr, see Charles Kerr (disambiguation).

Charles Hope Kerr (1860 – 1944)^[1], a son of abolitionists, was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H Kerr Company Publishers in Chicago right before the Haymarket Riot. Over the years, his company became a leading publisher of socialist, anarchist, and Wobbly works. Kerr was noted for his translation from the French of the radical workers' anthem, "The Internationale;" his version became the English words sung in the United States (although a different, anonymous English translation is sung in Britain and Ireland). Kerr's version was widely circulated in the Little Red Songbook of the Industrial Workers of the World.

References

1. ^ Charles H. Kerr & Co., Encyclopedia of Chicago

External links

• http://www.marxists.org/subject/usa/eam/spapubs-kerrlist.html Works published by the company during Kerr's lifetime
• Charles H. Kerr Company Records at the Newberry Library

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Name	Kerr, Charles Hope
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Date of birth	1860
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Date of death	1944
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