Hosea Hudson

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Early life: Hosea Hudson was born April 12, 1898, in Wilkes County, Georgia, to Thomas and Laura Camella Smith Hudson. When his parents separated in1902, he went to live with his grandmother Julia Smith. There he had worked on the farm as a sharecropper. When he was 19 Hosea married Lucy and they had one child, Hosea Hudson Jr. they eventually separated in 1946.

Mid life: in his life he worked many jobs to which he was qualified for. He worked in many different steel foundries. Which I believe today are called steel mills. He worked at these places:

Tennessee coal and iron railroad company ( 1937 to 1938) The Alabama Foundry Company (1939 to 1942) The Flakely Foundry Company (1942 to 1947) Wallwrof Foundry (1937) recording secretary He had no problem rising with to higher positions of where he worked at. This coincides with his leadership skills when he was a leading militant in the black trade union. This was through his development in the communist party in 1931. In the communist party he was in charge of organizing the membership. Given his role in carrying out one of the main points in the communist party program, and his continuing role as a local leader of the party, he was nominated to the National Committee of the Communist Party in July 1945. He received more votes than any other candidate.

Throughout his different forms of employment he was always a prominent force in the change and betterment of his company’s. In the ending part of his career he found relief work with the federal government work project administration, and he be came a central figure in Birmingham local 1 alliance unit. He was elected vice-president and was one of the three men to head the project. Thereafter he found various short term jobs in plants, including work as a mason. In 1951 he moved north to Newark, New Jersey. Where remarried in 1962 and lived with his wife, Virginia Larue Marson, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. After his wife had died in 1971, Hudson remained in Atlantic City for an additional 13 years before moving to Florida where he now resides (1984).

Works Cited: http://digilib,nypl.org/dynaweb/ead/scm/schudson/@Generic_BookTextView/144;pt=177

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