Biography:
(1907–70), union leader; director, General Motors Division, UAW (1939–42); vice president (1942–46) and president (1946–70), UAW; president, CIO (1952–55); vice president, AFL-CIO (1955–58). A member of the NAACP National Labor Committee, he was a consistent civil rights supporter. As a student at Detroit City College, he protested the institution’s leasing of a segregated swimming pool. In 1948, he helped found the anticommunist ADA. That same year, he was the victim of an assassination attempt.
Birth:
1907
Death:
1970
Gender:
Male