Otto Huiswoud

Deceased Person

1893 – 1961

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Who was Otto Huiswoud?

Otto Eduard Geradus Majelia Huiswoud was a Suriname-born 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. 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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Born
1893
Suriname
Died
1961

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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