The Enigmatic Anarchist
Lucy Parsons’s life was rife with contradictions. But her commitment to workers’ emancipation was never in doubt.
Jacqueline Jones is the Ellen C. Temple chair in women’s history and Mastin Gentry White professor of Southern history at the University of Texas at Austin. Her latest book is Goddess of Anarchy: The Life and Times of Lucy Parsons, American Radical.
Lucy Parsons’s life was rife with contradictions. But her commitment to workers’ emancipation was never in doubt.