Translated by me: http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/about_lucyparsons.html
The life of Lucy Parsons and the struggles for peace and justice have provided considerable information on the history of the movement American labor and the struggles anarchists of the time. Born in Texas, in 1853, probably as a slave, Lucy Parsons was an African-Native-and Mexican-American labor activist in the anarchist who fought against the injustices of poverty, racism, capitalism and the State in his entire life. After moving to Chicago with her husband, Albert, in 1873, began to organize workers and thousands of them have gone on strike protesting the poor working conditions, long hours and the abuses of capitalism. After Albert, along with seven other anarchists were imprisoned or hanged for their beliefs at the end of anarchism, Lucy Parsons achieved international fame in their defense, as a powerful speaker and activist in its own right. The impact of Lucy Parsons on the history of American anarchists and labor movement has served as an inspiration, covering two centuries of social movements.
While most people remember Lucy Parsons in relation to the events surrounding her husband, Albert Parsons, and executions of their fellow (known as the Haymarket affair), the legacy of Lucy and the passions have a long history and courage of their own. Lucy was known for his writings, his courage of dissident woman of color, his uncompromising commitment to social justice and, above all, his strength, turned to public speaking. She brought tens of thousands of workers into the streets in mass protest drew huge crowds wherever he spoke and was considered a dangerous threat, explosive and strong authority to the United States. For over 30 years his readings have been censored by the police, he was often stopped before she reached the fame. Hear Lucy speak, was a rare opportunity for all the passion that sparked the rebellion by the work of poor people from the west coast in the eastern United States. The Chicago police Lucy Parsons labeled as "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
Lucy made a living as a seamstress, spending the rest of his time to bring up her two sons and constantly working on behalf of many causes of justice social. Much of his time was devoted to the fight for freedom of expression is missing, as his ability to speak, as her husband was always at stake. It is also dedicated to the struggles of African-Americans, as in the case of Eight Scottsboro, Alabama, and wrote articles condannanti lynchings occurred in the south. As a black woman stood up in times of extreme racist and sexist oppression, he got the mark of an important feminist and civil rights pioneer. His next job was in defense of other anarchists, activists and workers on trial for false accusations, like Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings. Lucy spent his later years working with the International Defense Labor-International Labor Defense-(a broad-based, fundamentally communist support group for prisoners of this class and made a historic mistake, or that Lucy was a member of the Communist Party - which is not true) and speaking events and the May Day rallies.
The most important commitment as an activist Lucy was always with the anarchist labor movement, since he spent much of his energy in engaging in the struggle against capitalism, anarcho-syndicalist and business owners. His perspective was firmly anchored to the analysis of class, and he believed that issues such as racism was primarily the product of class inequality. Besides the workers, activists, militants anarchists she believed that superficial divisions among the workers had to be set aside and that all workers in the world could unite and topple the strike and businesses, including even the government. Lucy was a member of the Knights of Labor, one of the first series of labor federations in the country, and a search for members of the International People's Worker-International Working People's Association, IWPA-initially alvor anarcho-syndicalist organization. In 1905 she helped found the Industrial Workers of the World-Industrial Workers of the World-, which evolved some of the basic ideas of IWPA, expanded and led a massive wave of strikes and labor actions for decades. The engagement of Lucy Parsons for his causes, his reputation around the Haymarket affair, and its powerful oral skills had an enormous influence in world history in general history and work of the United States in particular. While today we have just mentioned and ignored by traditional and conventional U.S. history, the legacy of his struggle and his influence within these movements have left a trail of inspiration and passion that deserves more attention by all those who are interested in human freedom, justice and social equality.
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