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.
Otto Eduard Gerardus Majella Huiswoud (October 28, 1893 – February 20, 1961) was a Surinamese political activist who was a charter member of the Communist...
top black Communists, including Cyril Briggs, Richard B. Moore, and OttoHuiswoud. Fort-Whiteman, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym "James Jackson...
increased authority against political opponents like Eddy Bruma and OttoHuiswoud who were arrested and imprisoned without trial. On 23 July, Wim Bos...
Christian faith and organization of events. Sergiño Dest, soccer player OttoHuiswoud, political activist Ryan Leslie, singer Robert Van Lierop, lawyer, film...
connections with pioneer black American Communists such as the Surinam-born OttoHuiswoud and Jamaican poet and writer Claude McKay. These in turn connected Briggs...
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governing Executive Committee of the Communist International, with American OttoHuiswoud protesting the nomination of C.E. Ruthenberg for this position, arguing...
included Briggs and his Workers Party comrades, Lovett Fort-Whiteman, and OttoHuiswoud. Lovett Fort-Whiteman spoke on the floor of the convention for the agenda...
his increased authority against political opponents. Eddy Bruma and OttoHuiswoud were arrested and imprisoned without trial. On 23 July 1943, Wim Bos...
Fourth Congress of the Comintern, Claude McKay, a Jamaican poet, and OttoHuiswoud, born in Suriname, persuaded the Comintern to set up a multinational...
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Suriname. Further internments of political adversaries like Eddy Bruma and OttoHuiswoud followed. Seven members of the Estates resigned in protest thereby denying...
British West Indies), Hubert Harrison (St. Croix, Danish West Indies), OttoHuiswoud (Surinam, Dutch West Indies), Richard B. Moore (Barbados), George Padmore...
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