Myra Page

Dorothy Markey (nee Dorothy Page Gary, b. 1897 - d. 1993) was an American writer, union activist, and communist who published under the pseudonym Myra Page. She was born in Newport, Virginia in 1897. During the 1930s, she was a political journalist and writer. She died in 1993.

Page was active in the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) during college. During that era the YWCA was involved in reforming race relations. In 1919, she started graduate studies at Columbia University, where she studied anthropology with Franz Boas and Melvin Herskovitz. Boas and Herskovitz both "challenged the prevailing theories about racial hierarchies". She also took class with John Dewey at the Teacher's College and audited courses given by the radical theologian Henry Ward at Union Seminary. Page "developed an antiracist consciousness and chafed against the restrictions imposed upon her as a southern white woman". She became active in the Philadelphia Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union and in the early 1920s she joined the Communist Party.

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