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Labor & Workers' Movements
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Harry Bridges 1901–1990Business & LaborLed West Coast longshore workers through the 1934 strike and headed the ILWU for decades.Eugene V. Debs 1855–1926Business & LaborSocialist Party leader who ran for president five times from prison and championed labor rights.Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890–1964Business & LaborOrganized IWW strikes and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union.Samuel Gompers 1850–1924Business & LaborFounding leader of the American Federation of Labor who established durable craft-union organization.Bill Haywood 1869–1928Business & LaborCo-founded the Industrial Workers of the World and led major mining and textile strikes.Sidney Hillman 1887–1946Business & LaborLabor leader who built the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and linked organized labor to New Deal politics.Larry Itliong 1913–1977Business & LaborFilipino American labor leader whose organizing initiated the Delano grape strike and helped build the United Farm Workers.John L. Lewis 1880–1969Business & LaborUnion leader who built the United Mine Workers and helped found the CIO, expanding industrial unionism and collective bargaining.Mother Jones 1837–1930Business & LaborOrganizer whose militant campaigns for miners and against child labor made her an icon of American labor.Lucy Parsons 1851–1942Business & LaborRadical labor organizer and writer who advocated for workers, free speech, and racial and gender equality over seven decades.Frances Perkins 1880–1965Business & LaborFirst woman in a presidential cabinet and labor secretary who helped create Social Security, minimum-wage, and workplace protections.Terence V. Powderly 1849–1924Business & LaborLed the Knights of Labor as it became the first mass national labor organization in the United States.Walter Reuther 1907–1970Business & LaborUnited Auto Workers leader who helped build organized labor into a major economic and political force.Rose Schneiderman 1882–1972Business & LaborLabor organizer who championed women workers, workplace safety, and social reforms later incorporated into the New Deal.