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    Vol.59/No.29           August 14, 1995 
 
 
Bob Desverney, Swp Member And Black Rights Activist, Dies  

BY MAURICE WILLIAMS

Bob DesVerney, a long-time member and supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, died of cancer July 28, at age 65.

DesVerney joined the Socialist Workers Party in the late 1940s at the beginning of the McCarthy witchhunt period. He was drafted for the Korean War while he was a member of the party. DesVerney served on the party's National Committee from 1963 until 1971.

DesVerney wrote for the Militant over the years and is the author of The Black Ghetto and other pamphlets on the Black struggle in the 1960s and 1970s. DesVerney's contributions to the discussions for the Socialist Workers Party's 1963 convention helped shape the party's resolution, "Freedom Now: The New Stage in the Struggle for Negro Emancipation and the Tasks of the SWP."

DesVerney's contributions helped rearm the SWP's understanding of the fight for Black rights and its participation in that struggle. At the time of his death he was a supporter of the party in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A more extensive article on DesVerney's life will appear in an upcoming issue of the Militant.

 
 
 
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