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This week in history: Radical feminist Voltairine de Cleyre born
November 14, 2016One of the most prolific anarchist writers of her time, Voltairine de Cleyre was born 150 years ago, on November 17, 1866 in Leslie, Michigan. Her father named her after the famed French Enlightenment author Voltaire.
Read moreRemembering women’s history: Lucy Parsons
March 6, 2015Lucy Ella Gonzales Parsons, a working-class leader and spouse of one of the Haymarket martyrs, died March 7, 1942 in Chicago.
Read more“Out of The Jungle” labor activist Les Orear dies at age 103
June 3, 2014Leslie Fray Orear was a union organizer for the United Packinghouse Workers of America, editor of its newspaper and co-founder and president emeritus of the Illinois History Society.
Read moreToday in labor history: Chicago Haymarket affair
May 3, 2013Probably no single event has influenced the history of labor in the United States, and even the world, more than the Chicago Haymarket affair.
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