David Rhys Williams (1890 – March 28, 1970) was an American Congregational and Unitarian minister who wrote a Marlovian book called Shakespeare Thy Name Is Marlowe.
[1] In 1919 he participated in the dispute resolution between the International Structural Steel and Iron Workers Union and the Contractors Association of Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a labor arbitrator.
In 1938 he was charged with Communism by the Rochester Social Justice Club because of his opposition to the racist and anti-Semitic opinions of Charles Coughlin.
[1] During the 1950s he stood in opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy and to New York's Feinberg Law (which barred "subversives" from teaching in the state's public schools).
He advocated placing Susan B. Anthony in the Hall of Fame,[clarification needed] and funding for the Black Affairs Council of the Unitarian Universalist Association.