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Goldman, Emma (1869–1940)

From Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
Arriving in the United States from Russia in 1885, in the first major wave of immigration of Eastern European Jews, Emma Goldman soon found the anarchist movement and rose to prominence there. By the turn of the century, she had become the best-known anarchist in the country. With her lifelong comrade Alexander Berkman, Goldman spoke, wrote, and organized on behalf of workers, women, political prisoners, children, immigrants, the unemployed, homosexuals, and “the people.” She served three prison terms: The first time she was convicted of inciting a riot for urging unemployed workers to take bread, and served a 1-year sentence; the second time she was in jail a few weeks for speaking in public about birth control; the third time, with Berkman, she served a grueling 2-year sentence for opposing conscription prior to World War I. After completing their prison terms for anti-war activism, Goldman and Berkman were deported in 1919. They went first to the nascent Soviet Union; soon…
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Full text Article Goldman, Emma [‘Red Emma’]

From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American anarchist. Brought up in Königsberg in East Prussia, her family moved in 1882 to St Petersburg, where she worked in a glove factory and became influenced by prevailing populist and nihilist ideas. In 1885 she emigrated to the USA with her half-sister Helena, and lived in Rochester, New…
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From Chambers Classic Speeches
Emma Goldman known as Red Emma (1869-1940) was born in Lithuania (then part of Russia) to a Jewish family who moved to Germany to escape persecution. In 1885 she emigrated to the USA, where she began active anarchist agitation against tyrannical employers and was jailed in 1893 for incitement to…
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From From Suffrage to the Senate: America's Political Women
Mug shot of Emma Goldman from 1901
Anarchist and feminist Emma Goldman argued that sexual oppression was as important as class oppression in causing human suffering. Born in Kovno, Lithuania, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885 to avoid an arranged marriage. After the Chicago Haymarket Square riot in 1886 and the…
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From The American Women's Almanac: 500 Years of Making History
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
It was once said of Emma Goldman that she was born to ride a whirlwind. This is an apt description of a woman who, as an anarchist, radical feminist, and advocate of birth control, free love, and free speech, agitated more fiercely and deliberately stirred up more controversy than any other social…
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From The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame
Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
C redit : Associated Press Emma Goldman did not say the famous line that is often attributed to her: "If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be in your revolution." But those words do express her sentiments. She was a serious radical, an anarchist, and she believed that she was fighting for people’s…
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Born in a Jewish ghetto in present-day Lithuania, Emma Goldman moved with her family to Prussia and in 1881 to Saint Petersburg, Russia. Fleeing provincialism and anti-Semitism, she migrated to the United States in 1885 with a half sister and settled in Rochester, New York, where she worked in a…
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From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
[On rape] Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety. ADLER, Freda Sisters in Crime (1975). He’s a good boy; everything he steals he brings right home to his…
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Full text Article Emma Goldman 1869–1940

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