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| Frank Edward Alexander | |
| Frank Alexander was born on the Omaha Sioux Indian reservation in Nebraska on February 8, 1911. Alexander's mother was white and his father, a cowboy who had ridden for the Pony Express, was black. Although not Native Americans, Alexander lived on a reser... | |
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| Amos Archer | |
| Archer provided conflicting information on his place of birth. His passport information indicated that he was born in Scranton, Mississippi, on February 16, 1897. In Spain, however, Archer stated that he was born in Santiago, Cuba and that he moved to the... | |
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| Thaddeus Battle | |
| A 21-year-old student pursuing a pre-med degree at Howard University before joining the Lincoln Brigade, Battle joined the YCL in 1936 and was also an active member of the American Student Union. Battle left for Spain, aboard the SS Alaunia, on June 18, 1... | |
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| Vernon Beebe | |
| Beebe was born in Brooklyn on December 9, 1911. In August 1938, along with ten other Americans, Beebe arrived at Le Havre, France, as a stowaway aboard the SS Normandie. Immediately arrested, Beebe and seven of the other stowaways stated that they were en... | |
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| Joseph Brandt | |
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Born Sam Brustein in Poland in 1909, Joseph Brandt immigrated to New York City at the age of fifteen and joined the Young Communist League two or three years later. He was working in Ohio as an organizer for the Communist Party in 1937, but soon joined ... | |
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| Tom Brown | |
| Brown was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on February 5, 1910. He later moved to East St. Louis, Illinois. In 1932 he joined the Communist party, rising through the ranks to the position of unit organizer. On March 10, 1937, Brown left for France on the SS ... | |
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| Walter Callion | |
| Born in 1919, Callion worked as a mechanic and joined the YCL in 1934. He left for France aboard the SS Vollendam, on May 26, 1937. In Spain, Callion served as a mechanic attached to the XVth Brigade's Auto Park. Callion was wounded in battle and evacuate... | |
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| Louis Carter | |
| Louis Carter was born in 1902. He was a mechanic and joined the Communist party in 1937. Carter sailed for Europe aboard the SS President Harding on August 18, 1937. In Spain, Carter attended officers' training school. No further information has been foun... | |
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| Council Carter | |
| Council Gibson Carter was born in Hattiosville, South Carolina on February 25, 1885. As a young man he moved north and worked as a busboy in a number of New York hospitals in order to pay for his education. He attended night school studying shorthand and ... | |
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| Edward Carter | |
| Carter was born in Los Angeles, California on May 26, 1916. His parents Mary, who traced her ancestry to India, and Rev. Edward, Sr. who was born in Kansas, were missionaries. While their son was still a toddler, the Carters embarked on mission work that ... | |
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| Albert Edward Chisholm | |
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Albert Chisholm was born in Spokane, Washington, in 1913 while his father was serving in the U.S. Army. Later the family moved to Seattle.
As a teenager Chisholm worked as a bellhop on Pacific passenger ships. He became one of the first black members o... | |
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| Mack Coad | |
| Coad was born in Blackstock, South Carolina on October 26, 1894. As a young adult he worked as a railroad fireman and crane operator. He lost his railroad position at the onset of the Great Depression. In 1929, after attending a meeting of a Communist led... | |
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| Walter Cobbs | |
| Cobbs was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on March 2, 1914. He completed grade school before he was forced to drop out of school to help support his family. Cobbs later moved to St. Louis, Missouri where he worked as a cook and a waiter. In 1931, Cobbs became... | |
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| Leroy Collins | |
| Collins was born in 1900. He served in the U.S. Army for eighteen years and was college educated. Collins joined the Communist party in 1935 and left for Spain on the SS President Harding on August 18, 1937. On October 17, 1938, Collins was severely wound... | |
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| James Cox | |
| Cox was born October 4, 1893 in Decatur, Alabama. Although he received formal schooling only through the seventh grade, Cox regarded his work as a musician over the ensuing ten years to have been of great educational value. During the postwar industrial u... | |
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| Walter Dicks | |
| Walter Dicks was born on October 20, 1898 in Blackfield, South Carolina where he completed grammar school. Dicks moved to Cleveland, Ohio where, in 1931, he joined the Communist party and subsequently attended regional and national party schools. In 1937,... | |
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| Nathaniel Dickson | |
| Dickson was born in 1906. Prior to volunteering to fight in Spain, he worked at a clerk in Chicago. Dickson joined the YCL in 1930 and the Communist party two years later. Dickson left for Europe aboard the SS Aquitania, on June 2, 1937. In Spain he was a... | |
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| Arnold Donowa | |
| Born in Trinidad on December 10, 1895, Donowa earned his D.D.S. from Howard University and did further work at the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Toronto and at the renowned Forsyth Clinic in Boston, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, where he a... | |
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| Larry Dukes | |
| Dukes was born in East St. Louis, Illinois on April 6, 1918. His father, Sam Dukes, was an entrepreneur who ran an express rail business but this activity was merely a front for robbing trains. Indicted in 1918 for interstate theft, Sam was found guilty a... | |
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| Ramon Durem | |
| Born in 1915 in Seattle, Washington, Durem left home at fourteen and joined the Navy. Discharged following an injury to a leg, Durem worked as a laborer along the West Coast. He eventually enrolled at the University of California in Berkeley and joined th... | |
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