Pages from the life of

Henry Winston

Cold War political prisoner

Chair of the Communist Party USA 1966-1986

Presented at the 100th Birthday Commemoration

Henry Winston Unity Hall

New York City

February 19, 2012

Henry Winston

Henry Winston in uniform with his parents, Joseph and Lucille, and other members of his family about 1942

Ben Davis, Paul Robeson and Henry Winston

1948 rally in Harlem against arrests of CP leaders Henry Winston, Jack Stachel and Ben Davis

William Z. Foster, Ben Davis, Eugene Dennis, Henry Winston, John Williamson and Jack Stachel

on the steps of the Foley Square Court House

Henry Winston, Robert Minor and William Z. Foster in 1948

Demonstrators in D.C. demand Winston’s release from prison hospital about 1960

Winston meets Fidel to thank Cuban People for support in winning his release in 1963

Speaking at Anti-War Rally in Union Square on May Day 1965

Winston speaking at rally against the Vietnam War in 1966

60th Birthday Party with his mother, Lucille, and his wife, Fern

Voting in Harlem -- 1972

Angela Davis and Henry Winston in 1972

Henry Winston, Angela Davis and Oliver Tambo, Head of ANC in 1974

Gus Hall and Jarvis Tyner, Presidential Ticket of the CPUSA in 1976 with Henry Winston and Angela Davis

Henry Winston and Moses Mabhida, General Secretary of the CP of South Africa

Claude Lightfoot and Henry Winston

Henry Winston speaking at his 70th Birthday party in 1981

In the USSR with Helen Winter, Leonid Brezhnev and Gus Hall

Sam Webb, Henry Winston and Fern Winston in 1979

Henry Winston with his family

Note from Pete Seeger

www.cpusa.org

Photos from the collection of the

Daily Worker/People’s World and the Communist Party, and compiled with the help of the staff Tamiment Library.