Broadus Mitchell (December 27, 1892 – April 28, 1988) was an 20th-century American historian, writer, professor, and 1934 Socialist Party candidate for governor of Maryland.
Mitchell was a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins, as well as instructor at the Baltimore Labor College, at the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry,[4][5] and also the Southern Summer School for Women Workers in Sweet Briar, Virginia, with Lois Macdonald[6] under Louise Leonard McLaren.
Throughout his tenure at Hopkins, two recurring issues landed Mitchell in trouble with the university and opened him up to criticism: first, his radical political and economic views as a socialist, and, second, his outspoken stance supporting equal rights along racial lines.
Broadus talked with many members of the Eastern Shore community to obtain some basic ideas on the opinions of the people in that region.
The Southerners whom I know and esteem do not believe that the Negro must remain dependant upon the white man and they believe in the orderly administration of law as opposed to mob violence.'
His second wife was Louise Pearson, who also co-authored American Economic History (1947), A Biography of the Constitution of the United States (1964), and The Price of Independence (1976) with him; she died in 1986.
[1] Mitchell served as president of the Baltimore chapter of the National Urban League and chair of the New Jersey Civil Liberties Committee.