Nellie Stone Johnson — radical farmer, African American union leader, civil rights activist, and YCL member — left an impressive legacy of struggle.
From the beginning, women have played essential leading roles in revolutionary working-class and democratic movements.
Major histories of women in and of the CPUSA have yet to be written, just as true women’s equality has yet to be won in the United States.
These farm, peace, and labor activists drew on their progressive Finnish roots.
A "clear and unyielding" voice in the peace movement.