| LC control no. | n 50051841 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Padmore, George, 1902-1959 |
| Variant(s) | Nurse, Malcolm Ivan Meredith, 1902-1959 Padmore, George, 1903-1959 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Moscow (Russia) |
| Birth date | 1902 |
| Death date | 1959-09-23 |
| Place of birth | Tacarigua (Trinidad and Tobago) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Communism Pan-Africanism |
| Affiliation | Fisk University Howard University Communist Party of the United States of America International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers International African Service Bureau |
| Profession or occupation | Journalists |
| Found in | His How Britain rules Africa ... 1936. Oxford DNB online, 5 Jan. 2009 (Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse, known as George Padmore, anti-colonialist political activist and author; born 1902 in Arouca district, Tacarigua, Trinidad; exact date remains unconfirmed but baptismal records apparently give 28 July 1902; died 23 Sept. 1959 in London) LC database, Aug. 5, 2014 (hdg.: Padmore, George, 1903-1959) African American National Biography, accessed March 18, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Padmore, George; Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse; communist, pan-africanist, political activist, writer; born 1902 in Tacarigua, Trinidad; studied at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee and at Howard University Law School, Washington, D.C.; became a member of the Workers (Communist) Party and took the political name George Padmore (1928); gave speeches at Communist gatherings, wrote for Daily Worker and Negro Champion; traveled to Moscow, was barred from reentering the country, never returned (1929); became head of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers, Moscow; was appointed editor of Negro Worker in Hamburg, Germany (1931); was arrested by the Nazis and deported to England (1933); was expelled from the Communist International (1934); became chair of the International African Service Bureau, London (1937); wrote books and sent articles to newspapers and magazines in Africa, United States, the Caribbean and Asia; organized the Fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester (1945); became an adviser on African affairs in Accra, Ghana (1957); died 23 September, 1959 in London, England) |
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