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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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 ...
