Jack D. Foner
Jack Donald Foner (December 14, 1910 - December 10, 1999) was an American historian best known for writing histories of the labor movement and the struggle for civil rights. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. A professor of American history, he established one of the first programs in black studies in the United States. He was a victim of political blacklisting because of his support for labor, civil rights of African Americans and opposition to fascism in Spain in the late 1930s.
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