Parsons, Lucy

Parsons, Lucy,

1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was likely born in slavery in Virginia as Lucia Carter, and her family moved to Waco, Tex. In 1872 she married Albert Parsons, a Republican and former Confederate soldier who became a radical labor activist. They settled in Chicago in 1873, and there began to organize workers, demanding better working conditions and hours. In 1886 her husband was one of the eight men arrested for the Haymarket Square RiotHaymarket Square riot,
outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s.
..... Click the link for more information. ; in the infamous trial he was convicted of inciting violence and hanged (1887). Parsons became known internationally for her defense of the Haymarket eight and for her oratory for social justice and labor rights, drawing large crowds and leading mass protests, was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the WorldIndustrial Workers of the World
(IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the IWW, and 42 other labor organizations.
..... Click the link for more information. . She wrote for the Liberator and other publications as well as The Life of Albert Parsons (1889, repr. 2012).

Bibliography

See selected works ed. by G. Ahrens (2004) and T. S. Greer (2010); biographies by C. Ashbaugh (1976, repr. 2013) and J. Jones (2018).

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释义	Parsons, Lucy Parsons, Lucy, 1851–1942, American anarchist and labor activist. Although she claimed publicly to have been born of Mexican and Native American descent as Lucia Gonzalez, she was likely born in slavery in Virginia as Lucia Carter, and her family moved to Waco, Tex. In 1872 she married Albert Parsons, a Republican and former Confederate soldier who became a radical labor activist. They settled in Chicago in 1873, and there began to organize workers, demanding better working conditions and hours. In 1886 her husband was one of the eight men arrested for the Haymarket Square RiotHaymarket Square riot, outbreak of violence in Chicago on May 4, 1886. Demands for an eight-hour working day became increasingly widespread among American laborers in the 1880s. ..... Click the link for more information. ; in the infamous trial he was convicted of inciting violence and hanged (1887). Parsons became known internationally for her defense of the Haymarket eight and for her oratory for social justice and labor rights, drawing large crowds and leading mass protests, was a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the WorldIndustrial Workers of the World (IWW), revolutionary industrial union organized in Chicago in 1905 by delegates from the Western Federation of Mines, which formed the nucleus of the IWW, and 42 other labor organizations. ..... Click the link for more information. . She wrote for the Liberator and other publications as well as The Life of Albert Parsons (1889, repr. 2012). Bibliography See selected works ed. by G. Ahrens (2004) and T. S. Greer (2010); biographies by C. Ashbaugh (1976, repr. 2013) and J. Jones (2018).
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