Leon Bates (American Labor Leader)
Leon E. Bates Sr. (December 3, 1899 – July 25, 1972) was an American labor union leader with the United Auto Workers union (UAW) from 1937 to 1964 when he retired as an "International Representative" of the UAW. He was one the first African American union organizers to work for the "UAW-CIO" (Congress of Industrial Organizations).
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