Bernard Backer
Bernard Backer
DSOC
Long time activist Bernard Backer died after a long illness in early February 2002. Backer, who was active in the old Socialist Party USA, was a founding member of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, one of DSA’s two predecessor organizations. Backer served in the national leadership of DSOC and Democratic Socialists of America, during the 1970’s and 1980’s, and worked to build locals in Nassau County, NY and Princeton, NJ. Backer was also extremely active in the Workmen’s Circle serving in several leadership positions including the presidency[1].
Democratic Socialists of America
In 1997, Bernard Backer & Henrietta Backer were the Central New Jersey contacts for Democratic Socialists of America.[2]
In 1988 Bernard Backer and Henrietta Backer contact for the Princeton Democratic Socialists of America. [3]
"Solidarity"
Evelyne Huber , John Stephens, Steve Tarzynski & Kathie Sheldon, Dorothy Tolmach & Samuel Tolmach, Joseph J . Swartz, Suzanne Gottlieb, Dorothy Ray Healey, Bernard Backer and Henrietta Backer, Maxine Phillips, Richard Rausch, Leo Edbril, Lottie Friedman, Carl Schwartz & Wilda Luttermoser posted a tribute" Solidarity" in Democratic Socialists of America's Democratic Left Issue 3 1998.