Biography
Dorothy Holmes Schultz was a St. Paul Socialist Workers Party organizer and secretary of the Twin Cities Workers Defense League. She earned a master’s degree in political science at the University of Minnesota and worked with her sister Grace Holmes Carlson in socialist and labor organizing. Both sisters were indicted in the 1941 Minneapolis Smith Act case. Dorothy was acquitted during the trial and continued supporting the defense of Carlson and the remaining defendants. On November 18, 1941, the judge directed her acquittal. No Smith Act prison sentence was imposed; any brief pretrial custody has not been quantified.
