Williana Burroughs advanced the struggle for African American equality and women’s equality as a teacher, housing organizer, Communist candidate, and anti-imperialist Pan-Africanist.
The artists behind the anti-lynching tune "Strange Fruit" fought racist and anti-Communist terror with their voices, and in their personal lives.
Through his life, Doxey Wilkerson demonstrated the importance of education as a major terrain of struggle.