Labor Leader
Bernie Grant (1944-2000)
Born on the 17th of February 1944 in Georgetown, Guyana, Bernie Grant was elected to the British House of Commons...
Ernest C. Tanner (1889-1956)
Tacoma, Washington labor leader Ernest Charles Tanner (Ernie) was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 5, 1889. His father was...
Milton P. Webster (1887-1965)
Milton Price Webster is best known as one of the founders and long-time Vice President of the International Brotherhood of...
Ted Watkins (1922-1993)
Born into poverty and racial segregation in Meridian, Mississippi in 1922, Ted Watkins became a civil rights and union activist...
Moranda Smith (1915-1950)
Moranda Smith was a union organizer and rank-and-file leader of tobacco workers in North Carolina, who throughout the 1940s initiated...
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes (1890-1980)
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation, Determination of...
Fredi Washington (1903-1994)
Fredi Washington was an actress and founding member of the Negro Actors Guild of America as well as a journalist...
Lucy Parsons (1853-1942)
Although Lucy Parsons was one of the first and most important African American activists on the left, there is scanty...
Thyra J. Edwards (1897-1953)
Thyra J. Edwards, born in 1897, the granddaughter of runaway slaves, grew up in Houston, Texas and started her career there...
