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Dorothy Ray Healey (September 22, 1914 – August 6, 2006) was a long-time activist in the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) from the late 1920s to the 1970s. In the 1930s, she was one of the first union leaders to advocate for the rights of Chicanos and African Americans as factory and field workers.
During the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, Healey was one of the leading public figures of the CPUSA in the state of California. An opponent of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and at odds with the orthodox pro-Soviet leadership of Gus Hall, Healey subsequently left the CPUSA to join the New American Movement (NAM), which merged to become part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in 1982. She became a national vice-chair of the DSA.

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