Ellen Dawson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEllen Dawson
American activist
Date of Birth: 14-Dec-1900
Place of Birth: Barrhead, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 17-Apr-1967
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Ellen Dawson
- Ellen "Nellie" Dawson Kanki (14 December 1900 - 17 April 1967), best known as Ellen Dawson, was a Scottish-American political activist and trade union organizer in the textile industry.
- Dawson is best remembered as an active participant in three of the greatest textile strikes of the 1920s; the 1926 Passaic textile strike, the 1928 New Bedford textile strike, and the 1929 Loray Mill strike in Gastonia, North Carolina.
- An activist in the Communist Party USA during the 1920s, Dawson was the first woman ever elected to a leadership position in an American textile union.
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