Trailblazers in Black History: Dora Lee Jones

 

Dora Lee Jones was a domestic worker in early 20th-century New York City. She helped to found a Domestic Workers' Union in Harlem in 1934.

The Domestic Workers' Union was started by a group of Finns and a few African-Americans in California, who saw the necessity for a fight against the exploitation of Negro domestics. 

Creating the Domestic Workers' Union  was a step towards trying to erase domestic slavery. The Union members helped send out letters to the ministers of the African-American churches where these habitués of the "slave mart" (African-American domestic workers) attended and urged them to impress upon these women the direct harm they do to themselves and others by going to these slave marts, and accepting the low wages that these heartless employers offer them. 

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Source: Wikipedia