Lovett Huey Fort-Whiteman was an American political activist and functionary for the Communist International (Comintern).
Fort-Whiteman at the founding of the ANLC, 1925.
American Negro Labor Congress
The American Negro Labor Congress was established in 1925 by the Communist Party as a vehicle for advancing the rights of African Americans, propagandizing for communism within the black community and recruiting African American members for the party.
News photograph of American Negro Labor Congress meeting from Vanguard Press, c. 1929
Lovett Fort-Whiteman opened the founding convention of the ANLC, October 25, 1925.
Defrocked Episcopalian bishop William Montgomery Brown delivered a speech to the founding convention of the ANLC.