THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Ferelene “Nan” Bailey
December 9, 1952 – December 15, 2018
“There was a student mobilization committee on campus, a Women’s Liberation organization and an Afro-American Student Society. All those were the things I was looking to find out more about and get into.” – Nan Bailey about Brown University
Speaker. Writer. Activist. Organizer. Young Socialist Alliance, Brown University. Socialist Workers Party. Volunteered in the offices of the Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition in Washington, D.C., 1972. National Black Independent Political Party. Strong grassroots union supporter.
Photo. As a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Workers Party from 1999 to 2004, Nan was a contributor to The National Black Independent Political Party: An Important Step Forward for Working People, 1981.
More About Nan:
- Obituary, The Militant
- “Nan Bailey: ‘True to her revolutionary convictions every day of her life,’” by Bernie Senter, The Militant, January 14, 2019
- Pembroke Center Oral History Project, Interviewed by Emily Coe-Sullivan, September 15, 2015.
- The National Black Independent Political Party: an important step forward for Blacks and other American workers, by Nan Bailey, Malik Miah, and Mac Warren. New York Public Library
- Nan Bailey “Campaign 1990, Governor, Socialist Workers Party; 105.0,” Iowa Public Television, American Archive of Public Broadcasting
- Nan Bailey to address Black History Week, February 1976
