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Mae Massie Eberhardt
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Mae Graves
August 31, 1915 |
| Occupation | Union Activist Executive Vice-President of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council |
Mae Massie Eberhardt (born 1915) is a union activist in New Jersey in the twentieth century.
Biography
Mae Eberhardt was born to parents Randolph and Ida Kenny Graves in Virginia but moved to New Jersey after her first marriage. After the end of her first marriage, she began to work at Orange and Domestic Laundry, which led to her involvement in Local 284, AFL, and union activism. Eberhardt went on to work as on electronics for Kuthe Laboratories in Newark, New Jersey, where she was actively involved with International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE). In 1963, she went to work for IUE as civil rights director for District 3, which covers both New Jersey and New York. Eberhardt became the first Black woman ever elected as an officer in a state labor organization when she was elected executive vice-president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council.
