{"id":50451,"date":"2016-12-07T01:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T01:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50451"},"modified":"2017-04-19T13:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:49:02","slug":"lucy-parsons-an-american-revolutionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50451","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Haymarket Books<\/a>
\nFebruary 2013
\n282 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781608462131<\/p>\n

Carolyn Ashbaugh<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The life and times of Lucy Parsons<\/a>, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucy Parsons\u2019<\/a> life energy was directed toward freeing the working class from capitalism. She attributed the inferior position of women and minority racial groups in American society to class inequalities and argued, as Eugene Debs<\/a> later did, that blacks were oppressed because they were poor, not because they were black. Lucy favored the availability of birth control information and contraceptive devices. She believed that under socialism women would have the right to divorce and remarry without economic, political and religious constraints; that women would have the right to limit the number of children they would have; and that women would have the right to prevent \u201clegalized\u201d rape in marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cLucy Parsons\u2019 life expressed the anger of the unemployed workers, women, and minorities against oppression and is exemplary of radicals\u2019 efforts to organize the working class for social change.\u201d \u2014From the preface<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lucy Parsons, who the Chicago<\/a> police considered \u201cmore dangerous than a thousand rioters,\u201d was an early American radical who defied all the conventions of her turbulent era as an outspoken woman of color, writer, and labor organizer. Parsons\u2019 life as activist spanned the era of the Robber Barons<\/a> through the Great Depression<\/a>, during which she actively campaigned and organized for the emancipation of the working class from wage slavery. Parsons courageously led the defense campaign for the \u201cHaymarket martyrs<\/a>,\u201d including her husband Albert Parsons<\/a>. Ashbaugh\u2019s biography takes a giant leap toward reinterpreting the role of women in American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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