Occupation-Labor Organizer
Laphonza Romanique Butler (1979- )
On October 1, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom chose well-known labor organizer and political strategist Laphonza Butler to be the...
Addie Fletcher Booth (1902-1996)
Addie Fletcher Booth was an educator, civil rights activist, and labor organizer. She was born Addie De Vault on October...
Rasheed Storey (1936-2016)
Rasheed Linway Storey, factory worker and Communist organizer, was born February 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ella Mae Kimball...
Charles Frederick McDew (1938-2018)
Charles Frederick McDew was a civil rights and community activist, teacher, labor organizer, and one of the founding members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) where...
James W. Ford (1893-1957)
James W. Ford was a Special Organizer of the Communist Party’s (CP) Harlem, New York section and the most prominent...
Willard S. Townsend (1895-1957)
African American labor leader Willard S. Townsend was born on December 4, 1895, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Willard and Cora...
Frank R. Crosswaith (1892-1965)
Frank R. Crosswaith was born on July 16, 1892, in La Croix, Virgin Islands, to William Ignatius and Anne Elizabeth...
Aileen Clarke Hernandez (1926-2017)
“Image Ownership: Bettye Lane” Activist Aileen Clarke Hernandez was born Aileen Clarke to Jamaican immigrant parents on May 23, 1926,...
Ruben Um Nyobè (1913-1958)
Ruben Um Nyobè is a little known but major figure in the African independence campaign. He was the first African...
