Today we are taking a look at Emma Goldman.
IF you don't know who that is, smdh.
We are looking at her May 1917 article about women's suffrage before that became a thing.
The Woman Suffrage Chameleon
For well-nigh half a century the leaders of woman suffrage have been claiming that miraculous results would follow the enfranchisement of woman.
All the social and economic evils of past centuries would be abolished once woman will get the vote.
All the wrongs and injustices, all the crimes and horrors of the ages would be eliminated from life by the magic decree of a scrap of paper.
When the attention of the leaders of the movement was called to the fact that such extravagant claims convince no one, they would say,
“Wait until we have the opportunity; wait till we are face to face with a great test, and then you will see how superior woman is in her attitude toward social progress.
Read it all here.
Emma came to amerika in 1885 at the age of 16, at 20 she moved to nyc newly divorced she worked in the lecture halls as a speaker and began her own magazine, Mother Earth.
In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaste factory fire greatly disturbed her sense of justice.
She began using the tragedy to expose the corrupt nature of crapitalism.
For the want of a few minutes to go to the bathroom during a 12 hour work day, the owners locked the fire exits.
The women, some as young as 15, had to jump from the windows of the 10 story factory because the fire department's ladders were too short to reach them.
In one half of an hour, 145 workers, mostly female, were dead.
Emma has quite the storied life, she was no shrinking violet.
She ran an ice cream shop to finance her and Alexander Berkman's adventures in Homestead, Pa.
Read her autobiography?
Billy Jack, the movie.
The Trial of Billy Jack.
Billy Jack goes to Washington.
