Lucy Parsons
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1853 – 1942
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Who was Lucy Parsons?
Lucy Eldine Gonzalez Parsons was an American labor organizer, radical socialist and anarchist communist. She is remembered as a powerful orator. Parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor Albert Parsons and moved with him from Texas to Chicago, where she contributed to the newspaper he famously edited, The Alarm. Following her husband's 1887 execution in conjunction with the Haymarket Affair, Parsons remained a leading American radical activist as a member of the Industrial Workers of the World and other political organizations.
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- Born
- 1853
Texas - Spouses
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Died
- Mar 7, 1942
Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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