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  • NAME: Emma Goldman
  • OCCUPATION: Activist, Writer
  • BIRTH DATE: June 27, 1869
  • DEATH DATE: May 14, 1940
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Kaunas, Lithuania
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Toronto, Canada
  • Nickname: Red Emma
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Anarchist and activist Emma Goldman was a fiery (sometimes violent) advocate for peace, free love and birth control in the 1910s.

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Native Lithuanian Emma Goldman was born June 27, 1869. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1885, where she worked in clothing factories. It was in that setting that she came in contact with anarchist beliefs. A fiery speaker, she was jailed for inciting riots and advocating birth control. She was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919, spending the rest of her life traveling, speaking, and writing.

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