On January 25, 1926, the Passaic textile strike began. This was the first really important strike that the Communist Party ran and one that provided the workers a marginal victory after an absolutely
These are the graves of William Patterson, Jack and Sue Kling, and Art and Esther Shields. William Paterson was born in 1890 or 1891 in San Francisco. His father was an immigrant from St. Vincent and
This is the grave of Sylvia Woods. Sylvia Woods was born in 1909 and became a long-time radical, working within the United Auto Workers. It is difficult to piece together much of her day to day biogra
This is the grave of Frank Lumpkin. Born in 1916 to sharecroppers near Washington, Georgia, Lumpkin grew up in Florida, near Orlando. As a boy, he worked very hard. He was hauling sacks of paving ston
