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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 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 (20 de noviembre de 1898 - 1 de marzo de 1950) fue un físico estadounidense que más tarde se convirtió en un antirracista , activista de los derechos civiles , organizador laboral y comunista.
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.
Earl’s grandfather was Joseph Gelders, a 20th century physicist who became a civil rights activist and who survived a brutal beating by the KKK in Alabama for his civil rights work. Gelders was not deterred.
El Comité Nacional para Abolir el Impuesto Electoral fue una organización fundada en 1941 por los activistas de derechos civiles Joseph Gelders y Virginia Durr para obtener una acción federal para anular la legislación sobre impuestos electorales en el sur de los Estados Unidos, que se utilizó para restringir los derechos de los votantes.
Joseph Gelders was a professor and a C.I.O. organizer who helped create the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in 1938. He faced violence and discrimination from the steel industry and the Alabama government, but also received support from Mrs. Roosevelt and the New Deal.
