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	Lucy Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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's focus shifted somewhat to class struggles around poverty and unemployment, when she organized the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in January 1915, which pushed the American Federation of Labor, the Socialist Party, and Jane Addam's Hull House to participate in a huge demonstration on February 12.
		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 (671 words)

	Albert Parsons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major General Samuel Parsons of Massachusetts, his direct ancestor, was an officer in the revolution, and another ancestor, Captain Parsons, was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.
		Albert Parsons was born on June 20, or June 24, 1848 in Montgomery, Alabama to Samuel Parsons (?-1853) of Maine.
		Albert Parsons became recording secretary of the Chicago Eight-Hour League in 1878, and was appointed a member of a national eight-hour committee in 1880.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albert_Parsons (543 words)

	Lucy Parsons Center - Biography Of Lucy Parsons - by IWW (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lucy brought her two children to see their father one last time, but she was arrested, along with her kids, taken to jail, forced to strip, and left naked with her children in a cold cell until the hanging of her husband was over.
		Lucy vehemently opposed the new emphasis, feeling that reform would weaken the movement and that collaboration with oppressive parties would mean doom for the independent labor parties after their success in the 1887 elections.
		Because Albert died for the anarchist movement, Lucy was devoted to defending the anarchist cause.
	www.lucyparsons.org /biography-iww.php (2922 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Chicago police union upset by park plans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Lucy Ella Gonzales, who was of mixed fl, Mexican and American Indian ancestry, was born in Texas, possibly as a slave.
		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)

	Wis[s]e Words: Ceci n'est pas un blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lucy Parsons Project (not to be confused with the Alan Parsons Project) website is dedicated to Lucy Parsons, a late 19th century/early 20th century anarchist labour activist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, as well as the widow of one of the Haymarket martyrs.
		Lucy was known for her writings, her courage as a dissident woman of color, her unbending commitment to social justice, and, most of all, her powerful, fiery public speeches.
		Lucy went on a nationwide tour gathering support across the US for her husband and comrades in jail, delivering powerful speeches and reaching hundreds of thousands of people within a couple of months, but it was not enough.
	www.cloggie.org /wissewords/index.php?entry=/170703.txt (1220 words)

	The Conversation + 05 - Announcements, Calls and Recruitment + Lucy Parsons Park proposed for Chicago
		Lucy Parsons also continued to struggle for the causes for which she and her husband had fought.
		Lucy Parsons was born in 1853 in Texas, possibly the offspring of slaves.
		Lucy and Albert Parsons advocated anarchism, which she defined as a philosophy of freedom from what she saw as the oppressive hand of government.
	www.lumpen.com /conversation/viewthread.php?tid=436 (1322 words)

	Lucy Parsons, 1853-1942 - libcom.org \| history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Parsons became a frequent contributor to the IPWA weekly paper The Alarm in 1884.
		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 a!l found guilty of murder, she travelled the country speaking on behalf of their innocence and raising money for their appeals.
	www.libcom.org /history/articles/1853-lucy-parsons (673 words)

	Sydnee Moyers
		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.
		Lucy was not complicated - she was totally dedicated to a new society.
		Regarding political parties, Lucy believes their goals are: “First, to remain in power at all hazards; it not individually, then those holding essentially the same views as the administration must be kept in control.
	www.uark.edu /depts/comminfo/women/parsons.html (5018 words)

	Timebase(TM) - Selected Biographies - P
		PARSONS, LUCY (1853-1942) Claiming to be the daughter of a Mexican woman and a Creek Indian, and raised on a ranch in Texas (though later research showed that she may have been a slave in Texas), Lucy Parsons married Albert Parsons, a former Confederate soldier turned radical Republican around 1871.
		Parsons was also a staunch advocate of the rights of African Americans, stating that that fls where only victimized because they were poor, and that racism would inevitably disappear with the destruction of capitalism.
		In 1886, Lucy's husband was implicated in the Haymarket Square bombing of a crowd of police and sentenced to death by hanging.
	www.humanitas-international.org /showcase/chronography/biography/bios_p.htm (517 words)

	LUCY PARSONS
		Lucy was a founder of the Working Woman’s Union and both Albert and Lucy joined the Knights of Labor.
		Lucy was deeply moved by the suffering and misery that the capitalist system inflicted upon the workers and the poor with whom she lived and traveled.
		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)

	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.
		By 1885 Lucy was a well-known radical speaker, and on April 28, 1885, she led a protest march on the newly opened Chicago Board of Trade.
		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/PP/fpa68.html (733 words)

	African American Registry: Lucy Parsons was a prominent actvist and socialist
		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.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/756/Lucy_Parsons_was_a_prominent_actvist_and_socialist (358 words)

	Lucy Parsons Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lucy Parsons Center is a radical bookstore and community center founded in 1969 and currently located in Boston's South End.
		Lucy Parsons was an anarchist activist of the late 1800s.
		Bookstore: The Lucy Parsons Center has a well-stocked bookstore with new and used books and more than 200 magazines, newspapers, and journals, covering every wing of the progressive movement.
	www.lucyparsons.org (366 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.
		The proposed Lucy Elia Gonzales Parsons Park, at 4712 W. Belmont, is part of a larger city effort to recognize more women in a system where only 27 of 555 parks are named for females.
		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)

	Lucy Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		While she is usually remembered in relation to the events surrounding her husband, Albert Parsons and the executions of the Haymarket Martyrs, Lucy's own legacy and passions have a long and courageous life history all their own.
		Lucy made her living as a dress maker, spending the remainder of her time raising her 2 children and constantly working on behalf of a plethora of social justice causes.
		By 1890 the labour movement, with which Lucy and Albert had been heavily involved, witnessed major defeats due to the increased technology and the industrial scale of the workplace.
	www.susannassoapbox.com /article2.html (971 words)

	People's Weekly World - Campaign to name park for Lucy Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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.
		Lucy Parsons was born in Texas in 1853 of mixed African American, Mexican and Native American ancestry.
	www.pww.org /article/view/5163/1/213 (623 words)

	Planned park receives praise, disparagement - Columbia Chronicle Online April 26, 2004
		Lucy Parsons was a lot of things: a wife, a mother, a dressmaker.
		It was in 1873 that Lucy Ella Gonzalez Parsons moved to Chicago with her labor activist husband, Albert Parsons.
		Green said blueprints for a Lucy Parsons park have yet to be drawn up, but the park’s designated location is on the northwest side at 4712 W. Belmont Ave., the former site of a parking lot.
	www.columbiachronicle.com /back/2004_spring/2004-04-26/citybeat1.html (693 words)

	[Infoshop News] Book review: Rescuing Lucy Parsons for the Anarchist Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lucy and Albert arrived in Chicago in the 1870's and together threw themselves into the revolutionary socialist movement that was growing there.
		Lucy on Organisation One of the striking things about reading Lucy's writing is how relevant many of her comments are to the US anarchist movement today.
		In summary Lucy may have argued for armed self-defense as the right response to racist lynchings some 80 years before Malcom X but her approach to the question of racism would quickly lead today to her being labeled today as a 'class reductionist'.
	flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2005-May/004540.html (1466 words)

	Lucy Parsons Commentary
		As the Haymarket "trial" unfolded, Lucy Parsons' belief in justice and in the necessity for revolution was confirmed.
		Lucy Parsons was undaunted by physical abuse by the police, undeterred by vile threats from thugs, or by malicious lies in the Chicago newspapers.
		Lucy Parsons led a Christmas Day march to 18th and Prairie Avenue where marchers showered the Field mansion with catcalls and rotten tomatoes.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bright/lparsons/lparsonscom.html (757 words)

	HADC - Testimony of Lizzie Mae Holmes, 1886 Aug. 6.
		Parsons sat in a chair at the end of the table and close to the window.
		Parsons was walking around part of the time, stood at the bar part of the time.
		Parsons was walking there back and forth whether there was any gentlemen sitting on the window sill or sitting near to where you and Mrs.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /award/ichihay/volumem/M280-307.html (4210 words)

	Lawrence University : Alumni : Downer Women : Lucy Ann Seymour Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LUCY ANN SEYMOUR PARSONS began the Milwaukee Female Seminary in 1848, with a progressive curriculum, prestigious backers, and a building on Broadway and Wells.
		As the wife of the Reverend William Leonard Parsons, she supported the work of the abolitionist church, an active part of the Underground Railroad, on what later became Milwaukee's Grand Avenue.
		Highly respected as an educator, Lucy Parsons had teaching experience from upstate New York, known as the "burnt-over district" for its evangelical fervor.
	www.lawrence.edu /alumni/m-d/parsons.htm (140 words)

	Labor Arts Item
		Lucy Parsons (1853 - 1942), a woman of color and a working-class revolutionary, was the wife of Albert Parsons, one of four anarchists executed in 1887 for inciting the Haymarket Riot.
		Parsons wrote and lectured extensively in an effort not only to clear her husband's name, but to spread the principles of socialism to American workers.
		One of two women invited to speak at the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905, Parsons urged the fledgling organization to concentrate its efforts on organizing women workers, particularly those employed in the textile industry.
	www.laborarts.org /collections/item.cfm?itemid=52 (139 words)

	Lucy Parsons
		Parsons became a printer but after becoming involved in trade union activities he was fllisted.
		Albert Parsons was arrested and charged with the Haymarket Bombing.
		Parsons continued to be politically active after the death of her husband.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAparsonsL.htm (279 words)

	Boston IMC: newswire/53111 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Lucy Parsons Center, Boston's collectively run radical bookstore features an extensive selection of radical books and magazines, internet access, space for talks and meetings, and free movies Wednesday nights.
		One of the most important aspects of the Lucy Parsons Center is providing a community meeting place for radical activities.
		We need support to help ensure the Lucy Parsons Center continues to grow and be an important resource for the community.
	boston.indymedia.org /newswire/display/53111/index.php (731 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century
		Lucy Parsons, a Texan who married Albert Parsons in 1872, was of mixed African American, Native American and Mexican American descent.
		Lucy Parsons attended the Haymarket rally with her husband and left with him, before its violent conclusion.
		Parsons died in an accidental home fire in 1942, at the age of 89.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/pop_haymarket_f3.html (138 words)

	Tim Wolhforth Dynamite Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The historical mystery centers on Lucy Parsons, a fl woman who was married to Albert Parsons, a former Confederate Army officer and one of those hanged for the bombing.
		Lucy Parsons stands on the platform at the Chicago lakefront.
		Lucy begins to speak: "Last winter scores of bodies were found floating in this very lake.
	www.timwohlforth.com /dynamite.html (382 words)

	Albert Parsons
		Parsons married Lucy Waller, the daughter of a Creek Indian and a Mexican woman.
		Parsons and his wife joined the Socialist Labor Party in 1876.
		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)

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