Activism · Literature · Philosophy · 1869–1940
Born: 27 June 1869 · Died: 14 May 1940 · Age at death: 70
Emma Goldman died aged 70. She was born on 27 June 1869 and died on 14 May 1940.
Lithuanian-born anarchist writer and speaker who campaigned for free speech, birth control and workers' rights in America
Did you know?She was deported from the United States to Russia during the First Red Scare because of her opposition to the military draft.
Emma Goldman was the most famous anarchist in America. She was born in the Russian Empire and moved to the United States at 16. She worked in garment factories in Rochester and New York. She became a powerful speaker for free speech, birth control and workers' rights. She was jailed several times, including for opposing the military draft in 1917. In 1919 she was deported to Russia. She was quickly disillusioned by Bolshevism and wrote about its failures.
Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, 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.
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Anarchist writer, 1869–1940
Emma Goldman was born in Kovno on 27 June 1869.
She moved to the United States in 1885.
She founded the magazine Mother Earth in 1906.
She was deported in 1919.
Career highlights
Did you know?J. Edgar Hoover called her one of the most dangerous anarchists in America.
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