Kahn, Tom

Dates:

Birth 1938-09-15

Death 1992-03-27

Biographical notes:

Biographical Note

1938, Sept. 15 Born, New York, N.Y. 1955 1957 Attended, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1956 Joined Students for Democratic Action and the Independent Socialist League 1958 1959 Assistant organizer, Youth Marches for Integrated Schools, New York, N.Y. 1960 1961 Member, Committee to Defend Martin Luther King 1961 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C. 1963 First assistant to Bayard Rustin, organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C 1964 1972 Executive director, League for Industrial Democracy 1965 Member, National Action Committee of the Social Democrats, U.S.A. 1968 Speech writer for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey 1971 1972 Chief speech writer for Senator Henry M. Jackson 1972 1986 Assistant to the president, AFL-CIO 1978 Member, board of directors, A. Philip Randolph Institute, National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing 1986 1992 Director, Department of International Affairs, AFL-CIO 1992, Mar. 27 Died, Silver Spring, Md.

From the guide to the Tom Kahn Papers, 1959-1992, (bulk 1963-1972), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)