Parsons, Lucy Gonzales

Parsons, Lucy Gonzales Lucy Gonzales Parsons (c. 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer and orator. A dynamic, militant, self-educated public speaker and writer, she became the first American woman of color to carry her crusade for socialism across...

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Lucy Parsons Biography

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The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

The Socialist Legacy of Helen Keller

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Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World

Sabotage – by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn | Industrial Workers of the World I am not going to attempt to justify sabotage on any moral ground. If the workers consider that sabotage is necessary, that in itself makes sabotage moral. Its...

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Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

Women’s history: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the Rebel Girl

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The story of the Rebel Girl

The story of the Rebel Girl “FOR PEACE and socialism is in the hearts, in the minds, on the lips of millions around the world…The ‘sun of tomorrow’ shines upon us. The future is ours.”

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Flynn Biography

Flynn Biography Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the most influential labor organizers of the early 20th century, and was the first female leader of the Communist Party. She lived a colorful life full of success and failure both in...

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Education & Resources – National Women’s History Museum – NWHM

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The Wobblies Full Documentary

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IWW History Project

IWW History Project Founded in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World captured the attention of a generation with its fiery rhetoric, daring tactics, and program of revolutionary industrial unionism. Pledging to replace the narrow craft unionism of the American...

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