Lucy Parsons
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Lucy Parsons (1853-1942), American free speech and labor leader. A Black with Hispanic and Native American heritage, she was a dramatic speaker, noted equally for her powers of analysis and of voice. She was a central figure in Chicago and the working-class movement nationally ; especially after her husband and collegue, Albert, was hanged following the in famous Haymarket "riots" maneuvered by the Chicago police in 1886. She was a founding member of International Workers of the World, and one of the original women members of the Knigths of Labor. Variously described as an anarchist and socialist revolutionary, she was mostly remembered as a life long champion of the hungry, jobless, and foreignborn. She spent her life organizing, travelling, writing and leafletting, giving all she had to her causes for 70 years. When she died in poverty at 89, her large literary & political library was confiscated by the F.B. I. and never released.
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