THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Clara Day
August 29, 1923 – February 1, 2015
“Clara Day took her vision for community service, civil rights and women’s rights and made them the union’s vision. She was strength, she was action, she was gentility and she was class. Best of all, she was a Teamster,” said Jim Hoffa, Teamsters General President
Clara Day.
More About Clara:
- “Clara Day: A Teamster’s Life”
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters: In Memoriam Clara Day
- Coalition of Labor Union Women Mourns the Passing of Clara Day
- Interview from the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, courtesy Chicago History Museum and WFMT
- “Black Women in the Labor Movement: Interviews with Clara Day & Johnnie Jackson,” Labor Research Review: Vol. 1 : No. 11 , Article 4. 1988
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book Feminists Who Changed America – page 111