Gerson, Sophie Melvin, 1910-1996

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Sophie Melvin Gerson (1910-1996) was a Communist labor activist who participated in the Gastonia, North Carolina Textile Strike of 1929, and in other labor organizing activities throughout the Mid-Atlantic states in the early 1930s.

From the guide to the Sophie M. Gerson Letters to Simon W. Gerson, Bulk, 1929-1931, 1929-1931, 1953, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)

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Birth 1910

Death 1996

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