Herbert Hill
Herbert Hill · Civil Rights & Human Rights
National labor secretary of the NAACP (1951-1977) who fought workplace discrimination and advanced economic justice for Black workers.
1924, Brooklyn, New York, USA — 2004, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
New York City; Madison, Wisconsin
Herbert Hill is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — National labor secretary of the NAACP (1951-1977) who fought workplace discrimination and advanced economic justice for Black workers.
Herbert Hill was a Jewish American labor and civil rights figure who served as national labor secretary of the NAACP from 1951 to 1977. He fought workplace discrimination and pressed unions to open their ranks to Black workers, advancing economic justice. He later became a scholar of labor and race at the University of Wisconsin.
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National labor secretary of the NAACP (1951-1977) who fought workplace discrimination and advanced economic justice for Black workers.
Source: Jews in the civil rights movement (Wikipedia); Wikipedia (Herbert Hill)
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