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Hidden Figures: Dorothy Bolden

Dorothy Bolden was a domestic worker that founded the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America to fight for domestic workers rights. The NDWUA aided domestic workers in getting better wages, improved working conditions, and improved overall respect for their profession. Dorothy Bolden was born on October 13, 1924 to Georgia Mae Patterson, a housekeeper, and Raymond Bolden, a chauffeur, in Atlanta, Georgia. Beginning work at the age of 9, Bolden started off washing dirty cloth diapers for her mother’s employer at $1.25 a week. By the 1940s she worked as a maid, and her experiences in white households led her to become involved in early civil rights activism: after she was arrested and jailed for refusing to stay late and wash dishes for a white female employer, Bolden decided to create an organization to protect maids and other domestic workers from abuse. It was a long road to her founding of the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America in 1968, and Bolden cut her teeth organizing boycotts and protests in Atlanta in the 1960s. In 1964, she put together a boycott of Atlanta public schools to protest the poor quality of education for Black American students. Bolden also worked with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was her neighbor in her Vine City neighborhood in Atlanta, on initiatives to confront police brutality in Atlanta. Dorothy Bolden preferred to use public transportation, and would often talk with other domestic workers during long rides around Atlanta. When she came to the conclusion that most of them had shared experiences regarding long hours, low wages, and poor working conditions, Bolden mobilized the workers to unionize and fight for workers rights, gathering hundreds of women together in Atlanta to form the National Domestic Worker’s Union of America or NDWUA in the summer of 1968. The NDWUA enrolled thousands of domestic workers across ten cities in the United States, demanding higher wages and better working conditions. Bolden also made voter registration a requirement for the members of the NDWUA, who she assisted with their applications for the ballot box. Under her leadership, the National Domestic Worker's Union led to an increase in Atlanta wages by 33% over two years, and registered thousands of Black Americans voters, exponentially increasing the Black presence in local politics and improving the overall quality of life for Black Americans in Atlanta. As founder and president of the strongest domestic workers union in America, Bolden became recognized as an extremely influential political leader in the 1970s. She was hired as a consultant on worker’s rights for several presidential administrations, worked on welfare and social services reform, and also remained active in local Atlanta activism. As her time became split from the NDWUA, which she had operated out of her own funds, Bolden struggled to financially support the union through the 1980s and early 90s. The organization ceased operation in 1996. Dorothy Bolden remained active in politics and community organizing until her death on July 14, 2005, at 80 years old. #HiddenFigures #DorothyBolden ****************** Merchandise! MAKE SURE U GETTA SHIRT!! https://www.teepublic.com/user/sssseren Follow me on social media! Instagram: @sensei_aishitemasu Personal Tumblr:   / sensei-aishitemasu   Tumblr for my work:   / sssseren   Snapchat: sssseren GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/tc5wh7q Patreon:   / seren_sensei   ****************** Did you know I wrote a book? ☺️ 'So, About That... A Year of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture' Paperback: https://www.amazon.com/About-That-Con... Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B013V0CHK6 Digital download (e-book): https://gumroad.com/l/IkUa ****************** Links: 'Dorothy Bolden - Helped black domestic workers harness political power:' https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/doroth... 'Dorothy Bolden, civil rights activist and visionary labor leader:' http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2019/ma... 'DOROTHY LEE BOLDEN (1924-2005): https://www.blackpast.org/african-ame... Dorothy Lee Bolden (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy... 'MEET A DOMESTIC WORKER WHO WORKED WITH REAGAN & CARTER, AND TOLD OFF THE KKK:' https://domesticemployers.org/meet-a-... Dorothy Lee Bolden Thompson collection: https://aafa.galileo.usg.edu/reposito...