Background
Beatrice Lumpkin was born on August 3, 1918, in New York City, to Morris Abraham and Dora (Chernin) Shapiro.
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In 1939, Lumpkin received a Bachelor of Arts from the City University of New York.
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In 1967, Lumpkin received a Master of Studies from Northeastern Illinois University.
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Lumpkin received a Master of Science from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1974.
Lumpkin, bottom center, helped organize the Alliance for Retired Americans.
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1995
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1995
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1997
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1999
Beatrice Lumpkin was born on August 3, 1918, in New York City, to Morris Abraham and Dora (Chernin) Shapiro.
In 1939, Lumpkin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College (now of the City University of New York). In 1967, she received a Master of Studies degree from Northeastern Illinois State College (now Northeastern Illinois University), and a Master of Science from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1974.
After many years of blue-collar work in laundries, machine shops and assembly lines, Lumpkin became an accredited math teacher, first in the Chicago public schools and then as an associate professor of mathematics at Chicago City College.
When Chicago’s Wisconsin Steel closed suddenly without paying its workers, Lumpkin led a 17-year fight for justice. During that time, Beatrice chaired the Wisconsin Steel Workers Women’s Committee. She also became a founder of both the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Alliance for Retired Americans.
Despite her joyful approach, Lumpkin’s life has been laced with struggle and pain, especially in the 1950s and ’60s, when she and her husband endured blacklists and red-baiting, union busting, unemployment and the vicious racism they faced in Chicago - a series of battles she chronicles in her biography of Frank, Always Bring a Crowd!
Lumpkin continues her activism on a daily basis. Current projects include the Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, an organization whose mission is, “to mobilize retired union members and other senior and community activists into a nationwide grassroots movement advocating a progressive political and social agenda.” A part of their work that Lumpkin particularly enjoys is the building of intergenerational dialogue and projects, working with such groups as the Chicago Young Workers, SEIU Future Fighters and others.
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1997From the time she served as a poll watcher in 1936, at age 18, to her description of herself as “ecstatic” when Barack Obama first ran for president in 2008, Lumpkin has always stood with workers, even as a teenager, when she joined the young people’s arm of the Communist Party. In 1934, while she attended Hunter College in New York City, the college tried to increase milk prices in its cafeteria. The 16-year-old freshman led a milk boycott. Her boycott worked so well that the next spring she helped lead a student strike to protest American militarism, for which she was suspended. Two years later, Hunter sent her home again, this time for helping organize an anti-fascist conference.
Lumpkin was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Nowadays she is an active member of the Teachers Union and SOAR.
In 1947, Lumpkin married Roderick Mohrherr, but they divorced, and Beatrice married Frank Lumpkin, a steelworker on October 22, 1949. From her first marriage Beatrice has two children, Carl Joseph and Jeanleah, and from the second marriage, Paul David and John Robert.