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From a prize-winning historian, a new portrait of an peculiar activist and the turbulent age by which she lived
Goddess of Anarchy recounts the formidable life of the militant creator, orator, and agitator Lucy Parsons. Born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851 and raised in Texas-where she met her husband, the Haymarket “martyr” Albert Parsons-Lucy used to be a fearless advocate of First Amendment rights, a champion of the working classes, and one of the crucial prominent figures of African descent of her era. And yet, her life used to be riddled with contradictions-she advocated violence without apology, concocted a Hispanic-Indian identity for herself, and ignored the plight of African Americans.
Drawing on a wealth of latest sources, Jacqueline Jones presents no longer only the phenomenal life of the famous American-born anarchist but additionally an authoritative account of her times-from slavery in the course of the Great Depression.