Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist and writer who played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe. Born in Kaunas to a Lithuanian Jewish family, she immigrated to the United States in 1885 and lectured on anarchism, women's rights and social issues; with Alexander Berkman she planned the 1892 attempt on the life of Henry Clay Frick. She founded the journal Mother Earth in 1906, was jailed in 1917 for conspiring against the draft and was deported to Russia in December 1919. After the Kronstadt rebellion she denounced the Soviet Union, and later supported the anarchist revolution in Spain.