American Youth for Democracy

American Youth for Democracy

Communist Party youth wing

In the late 1940s, American Youth for Democracy was the youth wing of Communist Party USA.

AYD sponsonsors

The following were national sponsors of American Youth for Democracy:

• Henry Armstrong
• Charlotte Hawkins Brown
• John M. Coffee
• Frank Marshall Davis
• Howard Fast
• A. Eustace Haydon
• William H. Holly
• Langston Hughes
• John Howard Lawson
• Kirtley F. Mather
• H. P. Marley
• F.O Mathiessen
• Adam Clayton Powell,Jr.
• Minerva Pius
• Charles S. Seely
• William B.Spofford
• D. J. Struik
• William Jay Schieffelin
• Teddy Wilson
• Mary E. Woolley
• Mary McLeod Bethune