Hosea Hudson, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hosea Hudson

American politician

Date of Birth: 12-Apr-1898

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1988

Profession: trade unionist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Hosea Hudson

  • Hosea Hudson (April 12, 1898 – 1988) was an African-American labor leader in the Southern United States. Hudson was born in Wilkes County, Georgia.
  • He worked as a sharecropper in what was then known as the "Black Belt" of Georgia.
  • Then he moved to Birmingham and worked as a steel-mill worker and a local union official while maintaining an active membership in the Communist Party, which he joined after studying in New York City in the 1930s.
  • Through his work, Hudson was often referred to as a militant fighter against racist oppression and economic exploitation.
  • He is said to have been surprised at the acceptance of the Jim Crow Laws, but felt that was not enough.Hudson actively participated in the struggle to enfranchise the African-American minority in the Deep South.
  • In 1938, he organized the Right to Vote Club, which helped literate African Americans to register to vote despite the systematic intimidation of potential black voters in the segregated southern states.
  • (Hudson himself had learned to read at the Communist Party's National Training School.)During the Red Scares of the post-World War II period, Hudson was expelled from the Birmingham Industrial Union Council.
  • In 1947, he was fired from his job, removed from his offices in Local 2815 (which he had founded), and blacklisted as a communist.
  • His 30-year marriage to Lucy Goosby ended in 1946.Hudson told his own story in his book Black Worker in the Deep South: A Personal Record (1972).
  • It has been published in various editions, usually by small, progressive publishers. In 1987, the historian Nell Irvin Painter co-authored a book about Hosea Hudson's life, often described as a collaborative autobiography.
  • His story is also featured in a collection of stories about the Civil Rights Movement, as well as one on the Communist Movement in the United States.

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