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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia. Severe economic hardship forced her to leave school at the age of thirteen and begin work in a factory in St. Petersburg. During her time in St. Petersburg, she came across a copy of Cherychevsky’s “What is to be Done”. This book promoted ideas like equality between sexes and co-operative work. It strengthened her to live her life in her own way. When she was fifteen her father decided that she was rebellious and should be sent to America to join her sister. Goldman discovered when she reached Rochester, that America is not the land of opportunity she thought it to be. She earned her living in sweatshops and slums working as a seamstress.
In 1886 Goldman heard of the Haymarket Square tragedy in Chicago. A bomb had b
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