Occupation-Labor Leader
William Raphael Tate (1930-2003)
William Raphael Tate was a labor movement leader and a rabbi of the Beth Shalom Congregation in Brooklyn, New York....
Alexander Bustamante (1884-1977)
Sir William Alexander Bustamante ONH GBE PC was a Jamaican politician and trade union leader who became the first Prime...
Rory Gamble (1955- )
Rory Gamble is the first Black president of the United Auto Workers. His term as president began in 2019, and...
Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo (née Twala) (1920-2000)
South African career trade unionist Lucy Buyaphi Mvubelo was a leading figure in the movement to improve conditions for workers...
Dorothy Lee Bolden (1924-2005)
In 1968 Dorothy Bolden transformed domestic workers’ rights by founding the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America (NDWUA). Employed as...
Cyril Ramaphosa (1952- )
Cyril Ramaphosa is South African businessman and politician who is also the fifth president of South Africa and a member of the African...
Tefere Gebre (1968–)
Labor leader Tefere Gebre fled Ethiopia at fourteen years of age, moved to the United States, and was elected years...
Ewart Guinier (1910-1990)
Ewart Guinier, labor activist, and political candidate, was the first chairman of Harvard University’s Afro-American Studies Department. Born in Panama...
E.D. Nixon (1899-1987)
Edgar Daniel Nixon, an African American civil rights leader and union organizer, is remembered primarily for helping lead the Montgomery...
