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Lucy Parsons (1853-1942): By Carolyn Ashbaugh

Tradotto da Gianluca R. : http://www.lucyparsonsproject.org/aboutlucy/ashbaugh_parsons.html

Donna di colore e rivoluzionaria operaia, Lucy Parsons passò la sua vita a lottare per i diritti di poveri, disoccupati, senzatetto, donne, bambini e minoranze, per una società futura basata sulla libera associazione between workers' organizations. Born in Texas, perhaps a slave, she met Albert Richard Parsons, a militant supporter of the rights of freed slaves in 1870, and moved to Chicago in 1873. In 1877 Albert was forbidden to trade in prints, and Lucy took on the responsibility for the maintenance of the house by opening a clothing store. He began to write about vagabonds, cripples the Civil War, and women workers for socialist newspapers in 1878. Shortly thereafter gave birth to two children. He joined the International Workers Association (pro-anarchist) in 1883 and the Knights of Labor the next year. The same year the association began publishing the weekly "Alarm" in Chicago, with Albert as editor and Lucy as frequent collaborator. On his most famous was "The Tramp,
with whom he became the spokesman for propaganda" by the fact "against the rich. On April 28, 1885 she and Lizzie Holmes were at the head of the march of anarchists on the new Chamber of Commerce, the Day of Thanksgiving led a march of poor people along the Prairie Avenue, ringing the bell of the house of the wealthy.

with other anarchists, began to organize on 1 May 1886 a general strike for the 8-hour working day, concentrating his efforts on women in the textile industry. On 1 May she and Albert led 80,000 workers and activists up to Michigan Avenue. Three days later a gathering of workers to Haymarket was the occasion for a terrorist attack with explosives: police blamed for some radical activists.

While his comrades were rounded up after the attack of May 4, Lucy began to organize the defense of Haymarket. After eight defendants - including Albert - were convicted of murder, he traveled to different states, speaking in favor of the innocence of his classmates against those charges, but reiterating their revolutionary goals. By February 1887, he made 43 speeches in 17 different states. When Albert was executed in November of that year, Lucy became a widow with a very clear case to be pursued.

publisher of the newspaper - short life - "Freedom" (1892), which attacked the racist lynching and the enslavement of blacks,
and a member of Social-Democracy of Eugene Debs, was also a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World and editor of the "Liberator" ( 1905-06), who contributed a series of articles about famous women in history or not. In his role as a traveling speaker, Parsons emerged in the public eye in a demonstration by homeless people in San Francisco in 1914, and the head of a demonstration of the '15 Chicago's homeless and unemployed
(there, paid the Jane Addams his bail). He took up the cause of Tom Mooney and other activists arrested in 1927 and f elected to the National Executive Committee of Defense International Labour Organization, a front CP *
dedicated to the defense of political prisoners. In 1941, in one of his last public appearances, he led the striking workers of the International Harvester (ex McCormick Reaper factory farming equipment), where they began the events that led to the Haymarket. Lucy Parsons died in the fire of his home March 7, 1942;
authorities seized his personal papers and books from the smoking ruins.