{"id":55216,"date":"2017-11-20T01:58:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55216"},"modified":"2017-11-20T01:58:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T01:58:29","slug":"lucy-parsons-bio-reveals-new-facts-about-the-birth-ethnicity-of-the-goddess-of-anarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55216","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Parsons bio reveals new facts about the birth, ethnicity of the ‘Goddess of Anarchy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucy Parsons bio reveals new facts about the birth, ethnicity of the ‘Goddess of Anarchy’<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Chicago Tribune<\/a>
\n2017-11-15<\/p>\n

Mark Jacob<\/strong><\/a>, Metro Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA new biography<\/a> of Lucy Parsons reveals new facts about her life. Photo courtesy of the Lucy Parsons Project\/Justice Design (\/ LUCY PARSONS PROJECT)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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.<\/p>\n

She was a black woman married to a white man. Scandalous then, no big thing now…<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And Parsons had another trait of today\u2019s politicians: She was a merchant of misinformation.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical<\/a>\u201d is an important new biography by University of Texas historian Jacqueline Jones<\/a> that fact-checks Parsons\u2019 made-up details about her own background, correcting errors existing in virtually every biographical sketch ever written about this amazing woman…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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