professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical. “She at one point claimed that she had been born ...

As the Tribune’s metro editor and a book author in my spare time, I spent more than a year conducting research for my own proposed biography of Lucy Parsons. But then I learned that Jones ...

Lucy Parsons continued her calling as a rebellious orator, socialist, writer and activist, and in 1905, she helped establish the labor union Industrial Workers of the World. In 1942, she died in ...

Lucy Parsons occupies an unusual position in American ... She was primarily an autodidact who became a writer and speaker, with eclectic and densely erudite proclivities, of some distinction.

The store is named after former enslaved person, anarchist journalist and labor organizer Lucy Parsons. Born in Virginia ... the best-selling Howard Zinn, author of “A People’s History of ...

Described by the Chicago Police Department as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” in the 1920s, Parsons and her husband had become highly effective anarchist organizers primarily involved in the ...

Amid the stacks at the Wesleyan University Library, a student has found a book emblazoned with the name and address of the legendary anarchist Lucy Parsons. The biracial black and Native American ...

Lucy Parsons addressed the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World revolutionary union on two occasions and her speeches touched on issues close to her heart: the oppression of ...