Frank Boyd, circa 1950

Yellow flyer for an event honoring Frank Boyd. An excerpt from the page reads as follows:

[...]Born of slave parents, Boyd came to Minnesota in 1902. He began to work on the railroad soon after his arrival, seeing and feeling firsthand the suffering as well as the pride and spirit, of the railroad workers. Wages were so low especially for Black workers, that many had trouble keeping their families alive.

Despite the fact that Boyd only had the opportunity to receive only eight years of formal education, he quickly saw that the key to the workers' problems was organization. Boyd saw that the unity of masses of workers was a force stronger than all the power of the railroad combined.

[...]Boyd's work didn't stop with the reailroads. He was a board member of NAACP and the Urban League. He helped organize the joint Negro Labor Council in the 1930s. He was one of the first Black presendential electors.