An American scholar and civil rights activist, Herbert Hill (born 1924), national labor director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1948 to 1977, was widely recognized as a leading authority on race, labor, and employment discrimination in the United States.

Herbert Hill was born January 24, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated in the public school system of the city and attended the New School for Social Research and New York University, receiving his bachelor's degree from the latter in 1945. In 1947 he became an organizer for the United Steel Workers of America, and in 1948 he joined the staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he served as national labor director until 1977. Hill is currently the Evjue-Bascom Professor Emeritus of African-American Studies and emeritus professor of industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As NAACP labor director, Hill, a white man...