Grace Carlson

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Grace Holmes Carlson (November 13, 1906 – July 7, 1992) was an American Communist politician. As a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party she was imprisoned in 1941 under the Smith Act together with many other SWP leaders for opposing the US involvement in World War II. After her prison sentence, she became an activist for better conditions for women prisoners.

Grace Carlson was the Socialist Workers Party candidate for national offices in 1946, 1948 (that year as the running mate for Farrell Dobbs) and 1950.

She had been a professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota.[1]

She left the SWP in 1952 citing conflict with her Catholic beliefs.