Inman, Mary (11 June 1894–January 1985), trade union organizer, Marxist theorist, and author, was born Ida Mary Inman in Burnside, Kentucky, and moved to Creek Nation Indian Territory in Oklahoma when she was six. She was the fourth daughter and youngest of Mildred Taylor Inman and James Jett Inman’s nine children. Her mother died when Inman was eleven, her oldest sister died two years later, and she spent the next decade caring for her father and brothers....
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Inman, Mary (11 June 1894–January 1985), trade union organizer, Marxist theorist, and author
Clark A. Pomerleau
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Jackson, Aunt Molly (1880–1 September 1961), folksinger and union activist
Corey J. Murray
Jackson, Aunt Molly (1880–1 September 1961), folksinger and union activist, was born Mary Magdalene Garland in Clay County, Kentucky, the daughter of Oliver Peoria Garland, a farmer and Baptist preacher, and Deborah Robinson. When Molly was three, her father moved the family to nearby Laurel County to run a grocery store in the mining camp there. When the store failed, he tried sharecropping before going down into the mines himself. He became an organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, preaching Sunday sermons commingling the Christian gospel with union activism, and he taught his daughter to always stand up for the oppressed. From age five, Molly was standing alongside him on picket lines....
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Madar, Olga Marie (17 May 1915–16 May 1996), labor union feminist
Mary Margaret Fonow
Madar, Olga Marie (17 May 1915–16 May 1996), labor union feminist, was born in Sykesville, Pennsylvania, the ninth of thirteen children of Paul Madar and Anna (Seman) Madar, both of whom were Czechoslovakian immigrants. Her father, originally a coal miner, later owned and operated a grocery store with his wife. The grocery did not survive the onset of the Great Depression and, like many immigrant families who migrated to the cities in search of work, the Madar family moved to Detroit in ...
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Poyntz, Juliet Stuart (20 November 1886–?), union activist, suffragist, and communist leader
Denise Lynn
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 ...
