| Mae Massie Eberhardt | |
| Birth Name: | Mary Eliza Graves |
| Birth Date: | 31 August 1915 |
| Birth Place: | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Orange, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Other Names: | Mary Massie, Mary Brown |
| Occupation: | Union Activist Executive Vice-President of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council |
Mary Eliza Eberhardt (Graves; August 31, 1915 – March 11, 2007) was an American union activist in New Jersey who was active during the twentieth century.[1] [2]
Mary Eliza Graves was born in Richmond, Virginia on August 31, 1915, to parents Randolph and Ida Kenny Graves. She moved to New Jersey after her first marriage.[1] After the end of her first marriage, she began to work at Orange and Domestic Laundry, which led to her involvement in Local 284, AFL, and union activism.[1] Eberhardt went on to work as on electronics for Kuthe Laboratories in Newark, New Jersey, where she was actively involved with International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers (IUE).[1] In 1963, she went to work for IUE as civil rights director for District 3, which covers both New Jersey and New York.[1] [2] [3] Eberhardt became the first Black woman ever elected as an officer in a state labor organization when she was elected executive vice-president of the New Jersey Industrial Union Council.[1] [2]
Eberhardt died in Orange, New Jersey on March 11, 2007, at the age of 91.[4]