“She Who Would be Free”: Maude White Katz and the Many Fights for Freedom Maude White Katz did not usually stand down. She had gone up against the roughest cops of New York and Philadelphia and did not go down without a fight. However, in 1954, she was in Atlanta, Georgia as a part ofContinue reading “Maude White Katz”
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Eleanor Rye Broady
“We Will Accept No Less”: Eleanor Rye Broady and Re-inventing Radicalism Eleanor Rye Broady was not one to mince words. Even in official correspondences, she wielded an acerbic wit and caustic vocabulary. In one letter to John P. Davis, Executive Secretary of the National Negro Congress, she opened with “If I was to write likeContinue reading “Eleanor Rye Broady”
Romania Ferguson
The “Mother of the Southside”: Romania Ferguson and Chicago’s Black Working Class Romania Ferguson had a dilemma. She was a young labor organizer out of the Southside of Chicago, trained at a labor college, and energetic and capable. However, in 1929, the labor movement was splintering; unionists were increasingly separating into communist or non-communist camps.Continue reading “Romania Ferguson”
Melissa Ford, Phd 