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	knights of labor
		Parsons was a brilliant speaker and one of Chicago Knights of Labor who crusaded for an eight-hour workday.
		Albert Parsons and Powderly, though both long-time members of the Knights of Labor, differed strongly in their feelings about the Knights' involvement in Haymarket.
		Parsons was one of the eight men convicted for the bombings, and he viewed Powderly's lack of support with bitterness and in a letter to the editor of the Chicago Times on July 26, 1886, stated, " The labor movement means the downfall of bosses, of dictators, and of rulers.
	www.uhigh.ilstu.edu /soc/labor/knights_of_labor.htm (1688 words)

	People's Weekly World Newspaper Online - Campaign to name park for Lucy Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The FOP opposes the proposal on the grounds that Parsons’ husband Albert was a “cop killer” stemming from the bomb thrown in the Haymarket protest in 1886 that killed an officer.
		Albert Parsons was one of eight labor leaders framed and tried for the bombing, which is generally attributed to a police provocateur.
		Albert Parsons wasn’t even present at Haymarket, but was caring for the couple’s two children while Lucy was organizing a meeting of garment workers.
	www.pww.org /article/articleprint/5163 (524 words)

	Lucy Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lucy Parsons (1853-March 7, 1942) was a radical labor organizer, anarchist and is remembered as a powerful orator.
		In 1871 she married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate soldier, and both were forced to flee from Texas north to Chicago because of the intolerance caused by their interracial marriage.
		Lucy Parsons, 83 years old, noted anarchist whose husband was hanged for his part in the Chicago Haymarket riot in 1886, was burned to death late today when a fire broke out in her frame residence at...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lucy_Parsons (476 words)

	Sydnee Moyers
		Although Parsons was primarily a labor activist, she was also a staunch advocate of the rights of African Americans.
		Lucy Parsons took the lead in organizing their defense, and after they were all found guilty of murder, she traveled the country speaking on behalf of their innocence and raising money for their appeals.
		In addition, it seems that her marriage to Albert Parsons had a profound and significant impact on her beliefs and her decision to take her ideas to the street.
	www.uark.edu /depts/comminfo/women/parsons.html (5018 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PARSONS, ALBERT RICHARD
		Albert Richard Parsons, radical labor organizer, was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on June 24, 1848, the youngest child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Tompkins) Parsons.
		In 1860 Albert Parsons was apprenticed to Willard Richardson
		Albert Parsons left the city that night; in the aftermath of the bloodshed known radicals were jailed.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/fpa41.html (973 words)

	Gale * eNewsletters * Spanish * October 2003 * Lucy Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A multidimensional pioneer, Lucy González Parsons not only was one of the first minority activists to associate openly with left radical social movements, she emerged as a leader in organizations primarily composed of white males.
		Albert Parsons, a confederate soldier in his youth, was a radical Republican and was the subject of violent mob attacks both as a result of his politics and his marriage to a woman of darker hue.
		Albert Parsons was a printer by trade, and the couple made their home in a poor working class community.
	www.galegroup.com /enewsletters/spanish/2003_10/parsons.htm (1451 words)

	LUCY PARSONS
		Albert and Lucy both became active in the Socialist Labor Party, and Albert became famous in Chicago’s labor movement.
		Albert’s life was cut short in 1887 when he was one of those murdered by the State of Illinois after being framed for the police led riot at Haymarket during the Eight Hour Day strike in early May of 1886.
		Parsons’ contemporaries, and those who have tried to understand her since her death, have been frustrated by an inability to put her into any specific political or ideological box.
	www.thomasmertoncenter.org /the_new_people/May2004/lucy_parsons.htm (759 words)

	Parsons
		Albert Parsons was raised in Texas by his brother, Confederate General William Parsons.
		Albert worked as an editor of labor newspapers; Lucy wrote articles and supported the family as a dressmaker.
		Albert Parsons and seven other radicals were blamed for the bombing.
	www.chicagotribute.org /Markers/Parsons.htm (225 words)

	Albert Parsons -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parsons was born in (additional info and facts about Montgomery, Alabama) Montgomery, Alabama.
		Parsons addressed a rally at (additional info and facts about Haymarket Square) Haymarket Square on May 4th.
		Of the remaining five, Louis Lingg killed himself in his cell with a cigar bomb but Parsons, August Spies, (additional info and facts about Adolph Fischer) Adolph Fischer, and (additional info and facts about George Engel) George Engel were hanged on November 11, 1887.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/albert_parsons.htm (294 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Chicago police union upset by park plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parsons' husband, Albert, was one of eight anarchists tried for the bombing.
		A parks spokesman said Lucy Parsons' name was suggested by a historian in honor of her long work as a labor organizer and champion of women and minority group members.
		After her husband's death, Lucy Parsons continued to be an activist, although she was often barred from public speaking by the police, whom she characterized as "minions of the oppressing class." She died in 1942.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/03/22/chicago_police_union_upset_by_park_plans (414 words)

	SunT
		Parsons, a feisty mixed-race reformer who described police as "organized bandits" and "minions of the oppressing class," was an anarchist and wife of a man executed in connection with a cop killing in 1886.
		Prosecutors were unable to link Albert Parsons, who advocated overthrow of the government, directly to the death of Degnan. But jurors were convinced he helped instigate the incident at Des Plaines and Randolph on the Near West Side, said Mindy Spitzer, a Haymarket expert at the Chicago Historical Society.
		Historians generally conclude Albert Parsons was caught in the furor of the times, when big business and a budding labor movement were at often violent odds, with police officers serving as the army of what Lucy Parsons derided as "the boss class."
	collegeofcomplexes.homestead.com /SunT.html (413 words)

	African American Registry: Lucy Parsons was a prominent actvist and socialist
		Some critics have accused Parsons of subordinating issues of race to those of class, pointing to her article "The Negro: Let Him Leave Politics to the Politicians and Prayers to the Preacher," published in 1886, in response to the lynching of Blacks in Carrollton, Mississippi.
		Parson’s commitment to class struggle brought her to the frontlines of the 1886 movement for the eight-hour workday.
		Parsons, by then in her sixties, was arrested for her role.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/756/Lucy_Parsons_was_a_prominent_actvist_and_socialist (358 words)

	Plan to honor Texas anarchist irks Chicago cops : Thunderbay IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lucy Parsons, the women the Chicago police department claimed was "more dangerous than a thousand rioters," is causing controversey more than 60 years after her death.
		Parsons' husband, Albert, was one of eight anarchists tried in connection with the bombing.
		Lucy Parsons was of mixed fl, Mexican and American Indian ancestry and was born in Texas, possibly as a slave.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=12963 (369 words)

	Lucy Parsons Center - Biography Of Lucy Parsons - by IWW
		Albert had worked diligently on registering Black voters and was shot in the leg and threatened with lynching.
		Because Albert died for the anarchist movement, Lucy was devoted to defending the anarchist cause.
		Even with her eyesight failing, Lucy Parsons was active in the fight against oppression until her death.
	lucyparsons.org /biography-iww.php (2922 words)

	Chicago to name park after local Anarchist - DiscussAnything.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parsons was indeed known for her firebrand rhetoric.
		Parsons numbered among labor's enemies the police, who closely monitored her appearances before those opposed to the established order.
		Lucy Parsons was born in 1853 in Texas, possibly the offspring of slaves.
	www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=56137 (825 words)

	Message Board Entries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Albert was born about 1897 (he died in 1947 at age 50) - he married Romaine Rutz, and they had an only son Charles (which may have been Albert's middle name).Friends of mine are searching for their roots and do not have much info.
		One of the sons (?) of Cornet Parsons bought land there and established a town in the 1700s - where some of his descendants lived - there were two remaining brothers in 1900 listeed on that Parsonsfield site - one had one daughter - another John Parsons seems to have never married.
		This is the town where a friend of mine was told her Parsons family came from (Albert Parsons of Chicago married to Romaine Rutz with one son Charles.
	members.aol.com /parcpar/genres/post.html (576 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Albert R. Parsons was born in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, June 20, 1848.
		My father, Samuel Parsons, was from the state of Maine and he married into the Tompkins-Broadwell family of New Jersey and settled in Alabama at an early day where he afterwards established a shoe-and leather factory in the city of Montgomery.
		Parsons (who during the war was by his soldiers invested with the sobriquet "Wild Bill") was at that time in command of the entire cavalry outposts on the West Bank of the Mississippi river from Helena to the mouth of the Red River.
	www.webroots.org /library/usabios/aoarpil0.html (10605 words)

	history.html
		Police labeled anarchists, Albert Parsons and August Spies rallied local workers with eloquent speeches, bidding workers to stand together in pursuit of an eight-hour workday, and not to give in to the demands of industrial bosses.
		Albert R. Parsons with the support of the Knights of Labor Organization called for a strike in protest to long workdays.
		The anarchist Albert Parsons, August Spies, George Engle and Adolph Fischer were found guilty and executed by the State of Illinois.
	www.artic.edu /webspaces/fnews/2000-may/webex/mayday/history.html (811 words)

	Rescuing Lucy Parsons for the Anarchist Movement \| Anarchist news dot org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lucy and Albert arrived in Chicago in the 1870's and together threw themselves into the revolutionary socialist movement that was growing there.
		Apart from being known as the widow of Albert Parsons Lucy has also received some coverage because she was a women of colour in a movement whose leadership was nearly always white and male.
		At it became increasing hostile to organisation and organisational discipline, as identity politics was pushed to the fore over class politics Lucy Parsons cut an increasingly awkward historical figure precisely because she was a woman of colour.
	anarchistnews.org /?q=node/45 (1408 words)

	AssocP
		Although Albert Parsons had left the rally by the time the bomb was thrown, he was one of the eight anarchist arrested and tried for their purported involvement in the bombing. Incendiary labor pamphlets written by Lucy Parsons were read into the record at the trial.
		The eight were found guilty, and Albert Parsons and four others were sentenced to be hanged.
		After her huysband's death, Lucy Parsons continued to be a labor and social activist, although she was often barred from public speaking by the police, whom she characterized as "organized bandits" and "minions of the oppressing class." She died in 1942.
	collegeofcomplexes.homestead.com /AssocP.html (388 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: PARSONS, LUCY ELDINE
		Lucy E. Parsons, radical activist and prominent figure in the 1886 Chicago Haymarket riot, was born in Texas, probably in March 1853.
		Eight anarchists, among them Albert Parsons, were tried and convicted of conspiracy to murder, though the prosecution openly acknowledged that none of the defendants had thrown the bomb that had caused police to fire on the crowd.
		Lucy Parsons believed that working class revolution would eliminate not only poverty but racial and sexual discrimination as well, and she devoted the remainder of her long life to the cause of revolutionary socialism.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/PP/fpa68.html (734 words)

	MHS Discussion Board: Parsons/Parsonsfield ME
		Am helping a friend find Parsons ancestors of a Albert Parsons (Chicago - died 1946/47 - was married to a Romaine Rutz [?]) Their son Charles died in 1997 and also lived in Chicago and married a Mary.
		Albert might have had a brother Ed and a sisiter Adeline Ultrich (?).
		You might trying searching the Social Security Death Index...if Albert applied for social security or even worked he should have an application on file...the application will tell you the names of his parents and the country they are from.
	www.mainehistory.org /discus/messages/3/149.html?1018769733 (448 words)

	"Hurrah for anarchy!" - International History of anarchism - Anarkismo
		Albert Parsons was the only native born American among the Martyrs.
		Parsons quotes extensively from Marx's "Wage Labour and Capital" as well as the "Communist Manifesto" when he discusses the development of capitalism in the United States and Europe.
		As Lucy Parsons (the wife of Albert) put it "we hold that the granges, trade-unions, Knights of Labour assemblies, etc., are the embryonic groups of the ideal anarchistic society.
	www.anarkismo.net /newswire.php?story_id=374&print_page=true (1345 words)

	women3.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Albert Parsons was arrested and charged with the Haymarket Bombing.
		Parsons continued to be politically active after the death of her husband.
		Parsons was also a member of the National Committee of the International Labor Defense, and organization that helped African Americans unjustly accused of crimes such as the Scottsboro Nine.
	www.iamawlodge1426.org /women3.htm (392 words)

	Albert Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Parsons married Lucy Waller, the daughter of a Creek Indian and a Mexican woman.
		Parsons became a printer but after becoming involved in trade union activities he was fllisted.
		My brother, Major General W. Parsons was in command of the entire cavalry outposts on the west bank of the Mississippi River from Helena to the mouth of the Red River.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAparsonsA.htm (2044 words)

	Lucy Parsons Center - Biography Of Lucy Parsons - by Joe Lowndes
		She claimed to have been born the daughter of a Mexican women, Marie del Gather and John Waller, a Creek Indian, and orphaned at age three.
		In 1886 Parsons and the IPWA worked with the other industrial trade unions for a general strike in support of the 8 hour work day beyinning on the first of May that involved close to 80,000 workers.
		Viewed as a threat to the political order in death as well as life, her personal papers and books were seized by the police from the gutted house.
	lucyparsons.org /biography-freesociety.php (673 words)

	HADC - Indictment for murder with sentence against Albert Parsons, 1886 Oct. 9. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HADC - Indictment for murder with sentence against Albert Parsons, 1886 Oct. 9.
		Indictment for murder with sentence against Albert Parsons, 1886 Oct. 9.
		Court's confirmation of the jury's guilty verdict and death sentence for Albert Parsons.
	www.chicagohs.org /hadc/transcript/volume1/101-150/1110-110.htm (45 words)

	About Lucy Parsons
		Born in Texas, 1853, probably as a slave, Lucy Parsons was an African, Native and Mexican-American anarchist labor activist who fought against the injustices of poverty, racism, capitalism and the state her entire life.
		After Albert, along with seven other anarchists, were eventually imprisoned or hung by the state for their beliefs in anarchism, Lucy Parsons achieved international fame in their defense and as a powerful orator and activist in her own right.
		Lucy Parsons' commitment to her causes, her fame surrounding the Haymarket affair, and her powerful orations had an enormous influence in world history in general and US labor history in particular.
	www.lucyparsonsproject.org /about_lucyparsons.html (816 words)

	Novel chronicles the leaders of Haymarket
		Throughout his novel, Duberman portrays Lucy and Albert’s incredible devotion and love for each other, their anger and frustration with capitalism and their hopes for a better world.
		Rather than portray the Parsons’ revolutionary ideas as coming fully formed from the minute they arrive in Chicago, we see their thoughts shaped over time.
		Just as impressive is the portrayal of Lucy and Albert’s relationship as one of equal partners, with Lucy’s ideas being well ahead of her husband’s much of the time.
	www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/497/497_09_Haymarket.shtml (353 words)

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