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Otto Huiswoud

Surinamese political activist (1893-1961) · Activists · Died at 67

Otto Eduard Gerardus Majella Huiswoud was a Surinamese political activist who was a charter member of the Communist Party of America. Huiswoud is regarded as the first black member of the American communist movement.

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Huiswoud served briefly as the Communist Party's representative to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in 1922 and was a leading black Comintern functionary during the decade of the 1920s.

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Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1893 to 1961 · aged 67