(’27 june 1869′ – ’14 may 1940′)
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(first of the jewish female “anarchists”)
(“emma goldman” (’27 june [O.S. June 15] 1869′ – ’14 may 1940′) was an ‘anarchist political activist’ and ‘writer’)
(she played a pivotal role in the development of ‘anarchist political philosophy’ in ‘north america’ and ‘europe’ in the first half of the ’20th century’)
(born in ‘kovno’ / ‘russian empire’ (now ‘kaunas’ / ‘lithuania’) to a ‘jewish’ family, ‘goldman’ emigrated to the ‘united states’ in ‘1885’)
(attracted to ‘anarchism’ after the ‘haymarket affair’, ‘goldman’ became a ‘writer’ and a renowned ‘lecturer’ on ‘anarchist philosophy’, ‘women’s rights’, and ‘social issues’, attracting crowds of thousands)
(she and anarchist writer ‘alexander berkman’, her ‘lover’ and ‘lifelong friend’, planned to assassinate ‘industrialist’ and ‘financier’ ‘henry clay frick’ as an act of “propaganda of the deed”)
(‘frick’ survived the attempt on his life in ‘1892’ and ‘berkman’ was sentenced to ’22 years’ in ‘prison’)
(‘goldman’ was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for “inciting to riot” and illegally distributing information about ‘birth control’)
(in ‘1906’, ‘goldman’ founded the anarchist journal ‘mother earth’)
(in 1917, ‘goldman’ and ‘berkman’ were sentenced to 2 years in jail for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the newly-instated draft)
(after their release from prison, they were arrested—along with hundreds of others—and deported to ‘russia’)
(initially supportive of that country’s ‘october revolution’ which brought the ‘bolsheviks’ to power, ‘goldman’ reversed her opinion in the wake of the ‘kronstadt rebellion’ and denounced the ‘soviet union’ for its violent repression of independent voices)
(in ‘1923’, she published a book about her experiences, “my disillusionment in russia”)
(while living in ‘england’, ‘canada’, and ‘france’, she wrote an autobiography called “living my life”)
(after the outbreak of the “spanish civil war”, she traveled to ‘spain’ to support the ‘anarchist revolution’ there)
(she died in ‘toronto’ on ’14 may 1940′ (age 70))
(during her life, ‘goldman’ was lionized as a freethinking “rebel woman” by ‘admirers’, and denounced by ‘detractors’ as an advocate of politically motivated ‘murder’ and ‘violent revolution’)
(her ‘writing’ and ‘lectures’ spanned a wide variety of issues, including ‘prisons’, ‘atheism’, ‘freedom of speech’, ‘militarism’, ‘capitalism’, ‘marriage’, ‘free love’, and ‘homosexuality’)
(although she distanced herself from ‘first-wave feminism’ and its efforts toward ‘women’s suffrage’, she developed new ways of incorporating ‘gender politics’ into ‘anarchism’)
(after decades of ‘obscurity’, ‘goldman’ gained ‘iconic status’ by a revival of interest in her life in the ‘1970s’, when ‘feminist’ and ‘anarchist’ scholars rekindled ‘popular interest’)
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