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  • Dorothy Healey, 91; Lifelong Communist Fought for Working People

    08/08/2006 4:47:23 PM PDT · by calcowgirl · 65 replies · 1,557+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | August 8, 2006 | Dennis McLellan
    Dorothy Healey, a onetime labor organizer, civil rights activist and Marxist radio commentator who was chairwoman of the Southern California district of the Communist Party USA from the late 1940s through the 1960s, has died. She was 91. Healey, dubbed "the Red Queen of Los Angeles" by headline writers during her heyday, died Sunday of pneumonia in the Greater Washington Hebrew Home, said her son, Richard. She had been a resident of Washington, D.C., since 1983. The diminutive Healey, who stood just under 5 feet tall and once wore a pendant that pictured a clenched fist raised as a symbol...