Albert Parsons
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1848 – 1887
Who was Albert Parsons?
Albert Richard Parsons was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War. After the war, he settled in Texas, and became an activist for the rights of former slaves, and later a Republican official during reconstruction. With his wife Lucy Parsons, he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers. There he became interested in the rights of workers. Parsons is best remembered as one of four Chicago radical leaders convicted of conspiracy and hanged following a bomb attack on police remembered as the Haymarket affair.
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- Born
- Jun 20, 1848
Montgomery - Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Nov 11, 1887
Chicago - Resting place
- German Waldheim Cemetery
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on July 23, 2013
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