Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
A short autobiography by famous Italian-American anarchist Bartolomeo Vanzetti, half of Sacco and Vanzetti, who were framed and sent to the electric chair because of their beliefs in 1927.
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Photograph 1: The Suffrage Hikers of 1913 in Newark, NJ, at the start of their journey. They would arrive in Rahway later that evening.
Photograph 1: The Suffrage Hikers of 1913 in Newark, NJ, at the start of their journey. They would .
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Photograph 2: Suffragist and attorney Inez Milholland leading marchers at the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
Photograph 2: Suffragist and attorney Inez Milholland leading marchers at the start of the suffrage .
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The cover of the program for the Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913.
The cover of the program for the Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington, D.C., March 3, 1913.