In the 1980s I began photographing members of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at their annual reunions in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York. Growing up I had heard little about them, except from reading Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. They were some of the nearly 3000 American volunteers …
The Eyes of the World Were On Madrid The story of the Spanish Civil War and the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade told through music and dramatic readings. by Richard Bermack, Peter Glazer and Bruce Barthol
Front Lines of Social Change Photographs of the Lincoln vets in their senior years taken by Richard Bermack, paired with photographs from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives taken during the war. These pages are from Bermack’s book, Front Lines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Many of the photos were exhibited at …
Portraits of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade The following are photographs of American veterans of the Spanish Civil War, who fought to defend the Spanish Republic against a fascist insurrection led by General Franco, with the support of Hitler and Mussolini, in what would be a prelude to World War II. Fascism was spreading all over …
In the late 1930s, 2800 American volunteers fought in the Spanish Civil War in an attempt to stop fascism. When they returned home they formed the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and continued the struggle for social justice …