Lucy E. Parsons was a prominent figure in the late 19th & early 20th century radical labor movement in the u.s.
The famous speeches of the eight Chicago anarchists in court when asked if they had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon them, October 7, 8 and 9, 1886: exactly what it says. The anarchists were accused of bombing the police at a rally in Chicago's Haymarket Square & were executed for it on flimsy evidence.
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Life of Albert R. Parsons: with brief history of the labor movement in America ; also sketches of the lives of A. Spies, Geo. Engel, A. Fischer and Louis Lingg: One of those executed, Albert Parsons, was Lucy's husband. The sketches are about some of the others, all of whom were well known in Chicago.
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