High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles B. D. Amis (Benjamin DeWayne Amis; 7 July 1896 - 9 June 1993) was an African American labor organizer and civil rights leader. Particularly influential in the fight for African Americans' and workers during the period of official segregation in the South and informal discrimination throughout the country, Amis is most remembered for his militant Communist activism on behalf of the notable legal cases of...