Kahn, Tom

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)