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Joseph Sidney Gelders (November 20, 1898 – March 1, 1950) was an American physicist who later became an antiracist, civil rights activist, labor organizer, and communist. In the mid-1930s, he served as the secretary and southern-U.S. representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.
Joseph Sidney Gelders (born November 20, 1898 in Birmingham; died March 1, 1950 in San Francisco, California) was a physicist and civil rights activist. He co-founded the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. He narrowly survived a brutal abduction and beating in Birmingham in 1936 .
Joseph Gelders was a Birmingham native and a civil rights activist and labor organizer. He cofounded the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax, and was kidnapped and beaten by the Ku Klux Klan in 1936.
Joseph Sidney Gelders (November 20, 1898 – March 1, 1950) was an American physicist who later became an antiracist, civil rights activist, labor organizer, and communist. In the mid-1930s, he served as the secretary and southern-U.S. representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.
National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax was an organization founded in 1941 by civil rights activists Joseph Gelders and Virginia Durr to obtain federal action to override poll tax legislation in the Southern United States, which was used to restrict voter rights.
Joseph Sidney Gelders (November 20, 1898 – March 1, 1950) was an American physicist who later became an antiracist, civil rights activist, labor organizer, and communist. In the mid-1930s, he served as the secretary and southern-U.S. representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners.
26 de jan. de 2016 · Led by the Birmingham-native Joseph Gelders and Lucy Randolph Mason, a labor organizer from Virginia, the SCHW responded to the abysmal findings in the Roosevelt administration’s Report on the Economic Conditions of the South, which famously described the region as the nation’s “number one economic problem.”.
