P. Colfax Rameau
African American civil rights leader, minister and editor, born 1874
About P. Colfax Rameau
Born 1874.
P. Colfax Rameau (1874–?) was an American minister, newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, civil rights leader, and leader of Black workers in Alabama. He served as president of the Southern Afro–American Federation of Industrial Brotherhood. He published the Workmen's Chronicle. He advocated for opportunities for black miners and he opposed black membership in white-led unions. He also used the name Colfax Rameau, and P.C. Rameau.
Biography Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1874, he attended school there He edited the Workmen's Chronicle, which is described by Brian Kelly as "black-run, ardently antiunion. He wrote to Woodrow Wilson in 1920 and James J. Davis in 1921.
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