Otto Huiswoud
(1893-1961)
Surinamese-American politicial activist
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Otto Eduard Gerardus Majella Huiswoud (October 28, 1893 – February 20, 1961) was a Surinamese political activist who was a charter member of the Communist Party of America. Huiswoud is regarded as the first black member of the American communist movement. Huiswoud served briefly as the Communist Party's representative to the Executive Committee of the Communist International in 1922 and was a leading black Comintern functionary during the decade of the 1920s.
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28 October 1893 Paramaribo, Suriname
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20 February 1961 (aged 67) Amsterdam, Netherlands
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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