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Claude Clossey Williams (1895–1979) was a Presbyterian minister active for more than 50 years in civil rights, race relations, and labor advocacy. He worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union, founded the People's Institute for Applied Religion, and served as the national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers.
During 1936 he served as vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers. Williams became the director of Commonwealth College in Mena, Arkansas, in 1937 and spent the next two years there. He also remained a member of the board of the STFU.
Claude "Fiddler" Williams (February 22, 1908 – April 25, 2004) was an American jazz violinist and guitarist who recorded and performed into his 90s. He was the first guitarist to record with Count Basie and the first musician to be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
In 1936 he founded the New Era School for Social Action and Prophetic Religion. That same year he was severely beaten by five sheriff’s deputies while he was on his way to Memphis to prepare the funeral for a Black sharecropper who had been beaten to death.
In late 1936, Claude was caught by a group of planters, beaten and flogged, and sent out of eastern Arkansas with the warning that he would be lynched if he returned. In 1937, Claude, still deeply involved with field organizing of the STFU, was offered the directorship of Commonwealth College.
Claude Clossey Williams (1895-1979) fue un ministro presbiteriano activo durante más de 50 años en derechos civiles, relaciones raciales y defensa laboral. Trabajó con la Southern Tenant Farmers Union, fundó el People's Institute for Applied Religion y se desempeñó como vicepresidente nacional de la Federación Estadounidense de Maestros.
In 1936 Count Basie asked Williams to enlist in his Barons of Rhythm in Kansas City. Williams travelled with the band when it moved to New York and played on the band's first recordings.
