Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh “The author interprets the radical response to industrialization and monopoly through Lucy Parsons’ career, which spanned the era of the robber barons through the Great Depression. The fortunes of the American left form the fabric into which the author weaves the threads of Lucy Parsons’ colorful and volatile personality. Historians have compared Lucy Parsons to Mother Jones, Voltairine de Cleyre, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Emma Goldman. However, Lucy Parsons is unique in American History; from her probable slave origins she became a leading spokesperson for socialist revolution. For years she traveled from coast to coast in defense of free speech and labor causes. The Chicago police considered Lucy Parsons “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” and broke up her meetings for 30 years after the Haymarket Police Riot. Theatrical when the occasion demanded it, “Dark Lucy” could command headlines in any North American city.”
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Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary by Carolyn Ashbaugh

“The author interprets the radical response to industrialization and monopoly through Lucy Parsons’ career, which spanned the era of the robber barons through the Great Depression. The fortunes of the American left form the fabric into which the author weaves the threads of Lucy Parsons’ colorful and volatile personality.

Historians have compared Lucy Parsons to Mother Jones, Voltairine de Cleyre, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Emma Goldman. However, Lucy Parsons is unique in American History; from her probable slave origins she became a leading spokesperson for socialist revolution. For years she traveled from coast to coast in defense of free speech and labor causes. The Chicago police considered Lucy Parsons “more dangerous than a thousand rioters” and broke up her meetings for 30 years after the Haymarket Police Riot. Theatrical when the occasion demanded it, “Dark Lucy” could command headlines in any North American city.”

In November We Remember “For the IWW the month of November has a very special significance. The Haymarket martyrs those courageous pioneers of the eight-hour day movement were foully framed and put to death in November 1887. It was in November, 1915, that Joe Hill, the IWW song writer, and poet faced the firing squad in Salt Lake City for his union activities. It was in November, 1919, that the IWW logger, Wesley Everest also a veteran with a Distinguished Service medal was lynched by the minions of greed-maddened Lumber Interests of the west. November should not be a month of mourning but a month of increased activity on every industrial battle front. This year the dying words of Joe Hill, “Don’t Mourn; organize,” have added significance.” — Industrial Worker (1969)
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In November We Remember

“For the IWW the month of November has a very special significance. The Haymarket martyrs those courageous pioneers of the eight-hour day movement were foully framed and put to death in November 1887. It was in November, 1915, that Joe Hill, the IWW song writer, and poet faced the firing squad in Salt Lake City for his union activities. It was in November, 1919, that the IWW logger, Wesley Everest also a veteran with a Distinguished Service medal was lynched by the minions of greed-maddened Lumber Interests of the west. November should not be a month of mourning but a month of increased activity on every industrial battle front. This year the dying words of Joe Hill, “Don’t Mourn; organize,” have added significance.” — Industrial Worker (1969)