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Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
1890 - Born to socialist parents in New Hampshire on the 7th of August.
1907 - Became a full-time organizer for the IWW, traveling all over the Eastern U.S. to join garment and restaurant labor struggles as well as to a miners strike in Minnesota, and a lumber strike in Montana.
1936 - She joined the Communist Party and wrote a bi-weekly column for women's rights for the Daily Worker, and chaired the women's commission.
1951 - Was arrested along with other members of the CP for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force and violence.
1955 - She later published a book detailing her time in prison in The Alderson Story: My Life as a Political Prisoner.
1961 - She became national chairman of the Communist Party.
1918 - She died suddenly on one of her visits to the Soviet Union representing the CP on the 5th of September.
- She was given a state funeral in Red Square, and then her remains were flown to the U.S. for burial near the graves of Eugene Debs, Bill Haywood and the Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.
1907 - Became a full-time organizer for the IWW, traveling all over the Eastern U.S. to join garment and restaurant labor struggles as well as to a miners strike in Minnesota, and a lumber strike in Montana.
1936 - She joined the Communist Party and wrote a bi-weekly column for women's rights for the Daily Worker, and chaired the women's commission.
1951 - Was arrested along with other members of the CP for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force and violence.
1955 - She later published a book detailing her time in prison in The Alderson Story: My Life as a Political Prisoner.
1961 - She became national chairman of the Communist Party.
1918 - She died suddenly on one of her visits to the Soviet Union representing the CP on the 5th of September.
- She was given a state funeral in Red Square, and then her remains were flown to the U.S. for burial near the graves of Eugene Debs, Bill Haywood and the Haymarket Martyrs in Chicago.
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