NANCY HALL

1957 - 2022

Nancy Hall brought an especially large helping of sunshine alongside passionate advocacy for worker rights and civil rights to the Texas labor movement. 

As a pioneering Chief Steward, Secretary, and Executive Vice President in Communications Workers of America Local 6215 during a career that spanned 35 years, Hall fought hard for the union. 

As a longtime member of the Texas AFL-CIO Executive Board and vice president of the Dallas AFL-CIO, she played an important role in policy-setting, particularly with regard to advancing minorities and women in our movement. In her roles in the Coalition of Labor Union Women, A. Philip Randolph Institute, and Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Hall had a hand in every civil rights advance, every get-out-the-vote campaign, and every labor protest. One of her innovations: the Early Voting Rally that continues to this day in Dallas.

Hall’s reputation as an activist and her talent for making friends easily translated into important assignments, including her role on a national labor team that organized in Colombia. And Hall was second to none in recruiting volunteers, who warmed to the force of her personality and her commitment to outwork anyone. 

Hall had a great eye for identifying and cultivating future labor leaders. To persuade union members to act, she often repeated an apt quote by Coretta Scott King: “It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.”

We mourned Nancy Hall’s death in 2022, but her influence on the Texas labor movement will never go away. The wife of Carlton J. Hall and the proud mother of three children made all of us her family.