African Americans
B.D. Amis, Black Communist and labor leader
November 19, 2004While little known today, during the late 1920s and the 1930s, B.D. Amis was one of a small cadre of African Americans leading the fight for workers’ rights and racial justice. Urbane in demeanor and a...
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Ishmael Flory, fighter for equality, 96
February 20, 2004Ishmael Flory, veteran trade union organizer, activist in the African American freedom movement, and a longtime leader of the Communist Party in Illinois, died Feb. 4 in Chicago following a long illness. He was 96. Flory...
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