Terence V. Powderly

Terence V. Powderly

male, deceased (1924)
Terence Vincent Powderly was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, the son of Irish immigrants. He was a well-known national figure as leader of the...
Peter J. McGuire

Peter J. McGuire

male, deceased (1906)
Peter J. McGuire (July 6, 1852 - February 18, 1906) was an American labor leader of the nineteenth century, the founder of the United Brotherhood...
Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons

female, deceased (1942)
Lucy Parsons (1853-March 7, 1942) was a radical American labor organizer, anarchist (and later, Communist) and is remembered as a powerful orator....
Daniel de Leon

Daniel de Leon

male, deceased (1914)
Daniel De Leon was a Curaçao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Jewish origin. He was educated in Germany and t...
John Mitchell

John Mitchell

male, deceased (1919)
John Mitchell (February 4, 1870 - September 9, 1919) was a United States labor leader and president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1898...

Uriah Smith Stephens

male, deceased (1882)
Uriah Smith Stephens was a U.S. labor leader. He led nine Philadelphia garment workers to found the Knights of Labor in 1869, a more successful...
Alzina Stevens

Alzina Stevens

female, deceased (1900)
Alzina Stevens (Maine 1849 - Chicago 1900) was a trade unionist and active in Hull House. By thirteen, she worked in a local textile company where...

John B. Rae

male
John B. Rae was an American labor leader. He had served as president of the Knights of Labor Assembly 135, a coal miners' union. He and John...

Leonora O'Reilly

female, deceased (1927)
Leonora O’Reilly was an American feminist, suffragist, and trade union organizer. She was a founding member of the Women's Trade Union League. Da...
Joseph Labadie

Joseph Labadie

male, deceased (1933)
Charles Joseph Antoine Labadie (April 18, 1850 - October 7, 1933) was an American labor organizer, anarchist, social activist, printer, publisher,...