WWII / Cold War

Holocaust Resistance: Jewish Americans and allies
(Information on all individuals below should be available at the link above)

1. Rabbi Stephen Wise - leader against Holocaust, raised awareness

2. Lois Gunden - rescued child refugees

3. Varian Fry - journalist, aided escaping refugees

4. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus - saved 50 Jewish children before the war

5. Martha and Waitstill Sharp - Unitarian aid workers, helped refugees

6. Eleanor Roosevelt - worked in and out of govt (also fits in AA Civil Rights)

7. Henry Morgenthau Jr. - cabinet member, pressured FDR

1. Carlos Bulosan  - Filipino American author and labor organizer

2. Dalip Singh Saund - activist and first Indian American in Congress

3. Grace Lee Boggs - Chinese American writer and intersectional activist

1. Hollywood 10 - directors and writers who denounced HUAC

2. Edward R. Murrow - journalist who opposed McCarthy

3. Joe Welch, Army-McCarthy hearings

   1. PBS American Experience https://youtu.be/svUyYzzv6VI )

4. Margaret Chase Smith - first woman in House and Senate; defied McCarthy

5. Anne and Carl Braden - white activists for civil rights, called to HUAC

6. Frank Wilkinson - white civil rights activist, housing rights, HUAC defier

7. Dashiell Hammett - white writer and activist, HUAC defier

8. Pete Seeger - singer, testified at HUAC

9. Arthur Miller - author, critic of HUAC (The Crucible)

1. Asa Philip Randolph - union and Civil Rights activist, pressured FDR

2. Thurgood Marshall - lawyer for the NAACP

3. Josephine Baker - performer, Nazi resister, civil rights activist

4. Paul Robeson - performer, activist (anti-Red Scare, too)

5. James Farmer - founder of CORE

1. Frank Kameny - fired from govt for being gay, fought in courts

2. Harry Hay - Co-founder of the Mattachine Society

3. Chuck Rowland - Co-founder of the Mattachine Society

4. Bob Hull - Co-founder of the Mattachine Society

5. Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon - Founders of the Daughters of Bilitis

1. Charles Loeb (African-American reporter) - Exposed lie about atomic bomb

2. Ritchie Boys - German/Austrian refugees who trained as intelligence agents during the war 

3. Port Chicago 50 - a group of African-American sailors charged with mutiny for disobeying orders during World War II