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100 Year Anniversary of the Death of Voltairine de Cleyre

Excerpt from: 100 Year Anniversary of the Death of Voltairine de Cleyre

From Voltairine.org In commemoration of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) Emma Goldman's Memorial Tribute to Voltairine de Cleyre (1932), an excerpt:  The first time I met her — this most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced — was in Philadelphia, in August 1893. I had come to that city to address the unemployed during the great crisis of that year, and I was eager to visit Voltairine of whose exceptional ability as a lecturer I had heard while in New York. I found her ill in bed, her...

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Published By: Anarchist news dot org - Thursday, 21 June, 2012