William Z. Foster
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William Z. Foster was a radical American labor organizer and Communist politician, whose career included serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party USA from 1945 to 1957. He was previously a
Foster c. 1932
Foster as a railroad worker before the First World War
Foster, undated
Foster (right) during the Steel Strike of 1919
Eugene Dennis
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Eugene Dennis, was an American communist politician and union organizer, best remembered as the long-time leader of the Communist Party USA and as named party in Dennis v. United States, a famous McCa
William Z. Foster
…At an emergency CPA convention in July 1945, the CPA was reconstituted as the CPUSA, Browder was expelled, and a new leadership consisting of Foster, Eugene Dennis, and John Williamson was elected. The party campaigned vigorously for third-party candidate Henry A. Wallace in the 1948 United States presidential…
Dennis's FBI mugshot, 1948
The Communists convicted in the Smith Act trials stand outside Foley Square Courthouse following the verdict, December 6, 1949. (L-R): Henry Winston, Eugene Dennis, Jack Stachel, Gil Green, Benjamin J. Davis Jr., John Williamson, Robert G. Thompson, Gus Hall, Irving Potash, Carl Winter and John Gates.
Dennis's grave at Forest Home Cemetery