Urariano Mota
Frank Chapman
Arthur Zipser
Charles Rubin
Joel Wendland-Liu
Joel Wendland-Liu teaches courses on diversity, intercultural competence, migration, and civil rights at Grand Valley State University in West Michigan. He is the author of The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth, and a former editor of Political Affairs.
Ella Reeve Bloor
Ella Reeve Bloor, affectionately known as “Mother Bloor,” friends with the muckraking author Upton Sinclair, was a suffragist, journalist, workers’ rights advocate, and leader of the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA).
John Sommerville
Hugh Mulzac
Hugh Mulzac (March 26, 1886-January 30, 1971) was an African-Caribbean member of the United States Merchant Marine. He earned his Master’s rating in 1918, which qualified him to command a ship. However, due to Jim Crow, racist discrimination by the shipping companies, the U.S. government, and unions, he did not captain a ship until September […]

