Ellen Dawson
Female, Person
1900 –
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Who is Ellen Dawson?
Ellen "Nellie" Dawson Kanki was a Scottish-American political activist and trade union organizer in the textile industry. Dawson is best remembered as an active participant in three of the greatest textile strikes of the 1920s — the 1926 Passaic Textile Strike, the 1928 New Bedford Strike, and the 1929 Loray Mill Strike in Gastonia, North Carolina. An activist in the Communist Party USA during the 1920s, Dawson was the first woman ever elected to a leadership position in an American textile union.
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