Lucy Parsons bio reveals new facts about the birth, ethnicity of the ‘Goddess of Anarchy’ |
Lucy Parsons bio reveals new facts about the birth, ethnicity of the ‘Goddess of Anarchy’
The Chicago Tribune
2017-11-15
Mark Jacob, Metro Editor
A new biography of Lucy Parsons reveals new facts about her life. Photo courtesy of the Lucy Parsons Project/Justice Design (/ LUCY PARSONS PROJECT) |
Lucy Parsons, an anarchist firebrand who was one of the most enigmatic Chicagoans ever, might fit in better today than she did during her own time a century ago.
She was a black woman married to a white man. Scandalous then, no big thing now…
She favored an eight-hour workday and a social safety net, positions that made her a radical in the late 1800s but would qualify her for Congress today.
And Parsons had another trait of today’s politicians: She was a merchant of misinformation.
“Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical” is an important new biography by University of Texas historian Jacqueline Jones that fact-checks Parsons’ made-up details about her own background, correcting errors existing in virtually every biographical sketch ever written about this amazing woman…
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