Tom Kahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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U.S. social democrat, strategist in African-American civil-rights movement, supporter of Solidarity, and Director of AFL–CIO Department of International Affairs
Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1938
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 27-Mar-1992
Profession: trade unionist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Tom Kahn
- Tom David Kahn (September 15, 1938 – March 27, 1992) was an American social democrat known for his leadership in several organizations.
- He was an activist and influential strategist in the Civil Rights Movement.
- He was a senior adviser and leader in the U.S.
- labor movement.Kahn was raised in New York City.
- At Brooklyn College, he joined the U.S.
- socialist movement, where he was influenced by Max Shachtman and Michael Harrington.
- As an assistant to civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, Kahn helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, during which Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech.
- Kahn's analysis of the civil rights movement influenced Bayard Rustin (who was the nominal author of Kahn's "From Protest to Politics").
- (This article, originally a 1964 pamphlet from the League for Industrial Democracy, was written by Kahn, according to Horowitz (2007, pp.
- 223–224).
- It remains widely reprinted, for example in Rustin's Down the Line of 1971 and Time on two crosses of 2003.) A leader in the Socialist Party of America, Kahn supported its 1972 name change to Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA).
- Like other leaders of SDUSA, Kahn worked to support free labor-unions and democracy and to oppose Soviet communism; he also worked to strengthen U.S.
- labor unions.
- Kahn worked as a senior assistant to and speechwriter for Democratic Senator Henry "Scoop" Jackson, AFL–CIO Presidents George Meany and Lane Kirkland, and other leaders of the Democratic Party, labor unions, and civil-rights organizations.In 1980 Lane Kirkland appointed Kahn to organize the AFL–CIO's support for the Polish labor-union Solidarity; this support was made despite protests by the USSR and the Carter administration.
- He acted as the Director of the AFL–CIO's Department of International Affairs in 1986 and was officially named Director in 1989.
- Kahn died in 1992, at the age of 53.
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