Emma Goldman

A few words on this radical activist...⠀

Emma was born to a Jewish family in 1869 Lituania. Her family experienced the czar's antisemitic policies and economic instability, which forced them to move from Lithuania to Prussia and then to Russia in search of economic stability.⠀
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As a teen, she moved to the U.S. While there, she worked as a garment worker and became involved in the labour movement. ⠀
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Soon thereafter she became an ana*chist activist. Considered to be "exceedingly dangerous" and among the most dangerous ana*chists in the U.S., she was often harassed or arrested while lecturing, and sometimes banned outright from speaking.⠀
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According to Goldman, anarchism was a struggle towards peace by universal human fellowship and solidarity. Due to criticizing WW1, she was arrested, denaturalized and deported (because she was also an "alien" and ana*chist). Her life was absolutely incredible and her words and activism critical and radical. I've been learning about her life off and on for a few years now.⠀
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✏️ Leave me a comment if you have any recommended books about her, I'd like to continue to learn more about her.⠀
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[Image description: faded orange and yellow photograph of Emma Goldman with blue text reading: "Emma Goldman" at the bottom right of the image. end of description.]