Jerome Davis
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Jerome Davis (December 2, 1891 – October 1979) was a labor organizer and sociologist. Early in his life he campaigned to reduce the workweek, and as an advocate of organized labor.
He worked for the YMCA in Russia where he worked with a number of Bolshevik leaders including Lenin and Stalin. He received a PhD in sociology from Columbia University and was a professor at the Yale Divinity School.
His failure to receive tenure caused controversy, as it was widely believed to be due to his activism and Socialist leanings. It is alleged that he was a Stalinist sympathizer. He was blacklisted by the HUAC in the 1950s.
He founded the American group "Promoting Enduring Peace" and organized many trips to the USSR for purposes of advocacy during the Cold War. The Gandhi Peace Award was first proposed by him, on March 13, 1959.
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- "If democracy is to endure, capitalism as we know it must go." (From Capitalism and its Culture)
