Ed Shaw (other)
Ed Shaw may refer to: * Ed Shaw (activist) (1923–1995), American socialist and member of the Socialist Workers Party * Ed Shaw (American football) Edson Walter Shaw (August 7, 1895 – October 30, 1964)
was a professional

Ed Shaw (activist)
Edward Walter Shaw (July 13, 1923 – November 9, 1995), better known as Ed Shaw, was an American socialist and lifelong member of the Socialist Workers Party. History Shaw was born in Zion, Illinois in July 1923 and grew up in a family of working farmers. In his youth, he rebelled against the fundamentalist religious assumptions that surrounded him in Zion. After high school, at the outbreak of World War II, he entered the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Shaw moved to New York City in 1942. There, while still in his late teens, he entered the military-run Maritime Service training school at Sheepshead Bay, where he got his papers as a fireman/watertender in the merchant marine. On his way to start a job on a boat on the Great Lakes in 1943, Shaw found himself helping a Black worker escape a racist lynch mob during a race riot in Detroit - an act that ended up marking the rest of his life. From that moment on, he identified with, and later became an active partici ...
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Ed Shaw (American Football)
Edson Walter Shaw (August 7, 1895 – October 30, 1964)
was a professional player who played in the (NFL) with the Rock Island Independents, Canton Bulldogs and the Akron Pros. Shaw won an NFL Championship in