Beatrice Lumpkin

Beatrice Lumpkin

Beatrice Lumpkin (August 3, 1918-) is a union organizer, political activist, professor, writer, co-founder of the Coalition of Labor Union Woman (CLUW), and life-long member of the Communist Party, USA. A leader of the Chicago Teachers’ Union, Lumpkin was a tenured professor at Malcolm X College. She has written several books about history and mathematics, as well as a biography of her late Husband Frank Lumpkin (Always Bring a Crowd) and an autobiography, Joy In The Struggle.