Poyntz, Juliet Stuart (20 November 1886–?) union activist, suffragist, and communist leader, was born Juliet Stewart Points in Omaha, Nebraska. She changed the spelling of her middle name to Stewart while she was in college and eventually settled on spelling her last name Poyntz. Her father, John J. Points, came from a family of devoted abolitionists. Poyntz’s grandfather, Thomas, was a leading public official who has been credited with helping Kansas remain a free state. Her mother, Alice Stewart, was the daughter of a white slaveholder who ran a store in Choctaw territory in Oklahoma. Alice and J. J. Points met while they attended Kansas State Agricultural College. They moved to Omaha, Nebraska, and they became leading educators, and J. J. Points worked in city government. The Points had four children, but only Juliet and her sister Eulalie (nee Margaret) survived past infancy. In ...
