Otto Huiswoud, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Otto Huiswoud

Surinamese-American politicial activist

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1893

Place of Birth: Paramaribo, Paramaribo District, Suriname

Date of Death: 20-Feb-1961

Profession: activist

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Otto Huiswoud

  • Otto Eduard Gerardus Majella Huiswoud (October 28, 1893 – February 20, 1961) was a Suriname-born political activist who was a charter member of the Communist Party of America.
  • Huiswoud is regarded as the first black member of the American communist movement.
  • Huiswoud served briefly as the Communist Party's representative to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in 1922 and was a leading black Comintern functionary during the decade of the 1920s.

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