Otto Huiswoud was the national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, he was barred from speaking by police at an interracial dance at the Pythian Temple. Huiswood was born in Suriname. He was a founding member of the Communist Party in 1919 and was active in the African Blood Brotherhood, an early African liberation […]
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