Hosea Hudson, born on this day in 1898, was a communist labor leader active in Wilkes County, Georgia and Birmingham, Alabama who was expelled from a union council he founded and blacklisted for his political beliefs.

Born in Wilkes County, Hosea worked as a sharecropper in what was then known as the "Black Belt" of Georgia. Later, Hudson worked as a steel-mill worker and a local union official in Birmingham while maintaining an active membership in the Communist Party. Through his work, Hudson was often referred to as a militant fighter against racist oppression and economic exploitation.

During the Red Scares of the post-World War II period, Hudson was expelled from the Birmingham Industrial Union Council. In 1947, he was fired from his job, removed from his offices in Local 2815 (which he had founded), and blacklisted as a communist.

In 1972, Hudson authored his autobiography, "Black Worker in the Deep South: A Personal Record".