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Activists in Business & Labor

117 people, across 8 fields.

Eugene V. Debs 1855–1926Labor & Workers' MovementsSocialist Party leader who ran for president five times from prison and championed labor rights.Frances Perkins 1880–1965Labor & Workers' MovementsFirst woman in a presidential cabinet and labor secretary who helped create Social Security, minimum-wage, and workplace protections.Madam C. J. Walker 1867–1919Business, Finance & IndustryEntrepreneur who built a major Black hair-care company and used her wealth for philanthropy and civil-rights causes.Mother Jones 1837–1930Labor & Workers' MovementsOrganizer whose militant campaigns for miners and against child labor made her an icon of American labor.Bill Haywood 1869–1928Labor & Workers' MovementsCo-founded the Industrial Workers of the World and led major mining and textile strikes.Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 1890–1964Labor & Workers' MovementsOrganized IWW strikes and helped found the American Civil Liberties Union.Lucy Parsons 1851–1942Labor & Workers' MovementsRadical labor organizer and writer who advocated for workers, free speech, and racial and gender equality over seven decades.Rose Schneiderman 1882–1972Labor & Workers' MovementsLabor organizer who championed women workers, workplace safety, and social reforms later incorporated into the New Deal.LILarry Itliong 1913–1977Labor & Workers' MovementsFilipino American labor leader whose organizing initiated the Delano grape strike and helped build the United Farm Workers.