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Dora Lee Jones

1890–1972

United States

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Dora Lee Jones (born October 11, 1889) was an American domestic worker in early 20th-century New York City. She helped to found a Domestic Workers' Union in Harlem in 1934. The Domestic Workers' Union was started by a group of Finns and a few African Americans in California, who saw the necessity for a fight against the exploitation of Negro domestics.

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