from Russian in 1885, where the Haymarket affair in Chicago sparked an interest in anarchism. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.” Heady stuff for the late 19 th century. Her credo: “I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself to live for herself to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. The Queen of the Anarchists had many faces.Įmma Goldman was an anarchist, feminist and freethinker at a time when just talking about birth control was enough to get you imprisoned (and she did get imprisoned, several times, and not just for talking about contraception). When the cops came – again – for Red Emma about the president’s assassination, they found her smiling beatifically in a rocking chair in a flat on North Sheffield Avenue. Join us every week for a historical happy hour!
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