Political Party-Communist Party
Rasheed Storey (1936-2016)
Rasheed Linway Storey, factory worker and Communist organizer, was born February 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Ella Mae Kimball...
Louise Thompson Patterson (1901-1999)
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, civil rights activist, communist, and educator, was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1901 to...
Williana “Liana” Burroughs (1882-1945)
Williana “Liana” Jones Burroughs was an American teacher, radical political activist, and the first African American woman to run for...
African American Anti-Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
Approximately 90 African Americans fought in Spain during the civil war that engulfed that nation between 1936 and 1939. The...
Oliver Golden (1887-1940)
Oliver Golden, born in 1887, in Yazoo County, Mississippi, was the son of former slaves who prospered during Reconstruction. Their house, however,...
John Preston Davis (1905-1973)
John Preston Davis was a prominent African American author, journalist, lawyer, civil rights leader, and co-founder of the National Negro Congress (1935-1946), an organization that was dedicated...
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...
Lovett Fort-Whiteman (1889-1939)
Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman was an American political and civil rights activist and member of the Communist International. He is regarded as the first American-born Black...
Otto Huiswoud (1893-1961)
Otto Huiswoud was the first Black member of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA), as well...
