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Emma Goldman (27 June 1869 â€“ 14 May 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy (WP) in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.

She was born in the province of Kaunas, Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire), to an Orthodox Jewish (WP) familyn Kovno in the Russian Empire. Although she attended schools in KÃ¶nigsberg, her father refused to allow her further education when the family moved to St. Petersburg, an example of the confrontations that marked their relationship. Still, she read voraciously and educated herself about the politics of her time. Goldman emigrated with her sister Helena to Rochester, New York in the United States in 1885, at the age of sixteen, and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.^[1] Married briefly in 1887, she divorced her husband quickly thereafter and moved to New York City. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman was trained by Johann Most in public speaking. She became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.^[1] She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrestedâ€”along with hundreds of othersâ€”and deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there. She died in Toronto on May 14, 1940, aged 70.

During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.^[2] Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, atheism, freedom of speech, militarism (WP), capitalism, marriage, free love, and homosexuality. Although she distanced herself from first-wave feminism and its efforts toward women's suffrage, she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.

Emma Goldman, circa 1911

Family[edit]

Emma Goldman's Orthodox Jewish family lived in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas (called Kovno at the time, part of the Russian Empire).^[3] Goldman's mother Taube Bienowitch had been married before, to a man with whom she had two daughtersâ€”Helena in 1860 and Lena in 1862. When her first husband died of tuberculosis, Taube was devastated. Goldman later wrote: "Whatever love she had had died with the young man to whom she had been married at the age of fifteen."^[4]

Emma Goldman was born in Kaunas, part of modern-day Lithuania

Taube's second marriage was arranged by her family and, as Goldman puts it, "mismated from the first".^[4] Her second husband, Abraham Goldman, invested Taube's inheritance in a business that quickly failed. The ensuing hardship combined with the emotional distance of husband and wife to make the household a tense place for the children. When Taube became pregnant, Abraham hoped desperately for a son; a daughter, he believed, would serve as one more sign of failure.^[5] They eventually had three sons, but their first child was Emma.^[6]

Emma Goldman was born on June 27, 1869. Her father used violence to punish his children, beating them when they disobeyed him. He used a whip only on Emma, the most rebellious of them.^[7] Her mother provided scarce comfort, calling only rarely on Abraham to tone down his beatings.^[8] Goldman later speculated that her father's furious temper was at least partly a result of sexual frustration.^[4]

Goldman's relationships with her elder half-sisters, Helena and Lena, were a study in contrasts. Helena, the oldest, provided the comfort they lacked from their mother; she filled Goldman's childhood with "whatever joy it had".^[9] Lena, however, was distant and uncharitable.^[10] The three sisters were joined by brothers Louis (who died at the age of six), Herman (born in 1872), and Moishe (born in 1879).^[11]

Adolescence[edit]

When Emma was a young girl, the Goldman family moved to the village of PapilÄ—, where her father ran an inn. While her sisters worked, she became friends with a servant named Petrushka, who excited her "first erotic sensations".^[12] Later in PapilÄ— she witnessed a peasant being whipped with a knout in the street. This event traumatized her and contributed to her lifelong distaste for violent authority.^[13]

At the age of seven, Goldman moved with her family to the Prussian city of KÃ¶nigsberg (then part of the German Empire), and she enrolled in a Realschule. One teacher punished disobedient studentsâ€”targeting Goldman in particularâ€”by beating their hands with a ruler. Another teacher tried to molest his female students and was fired when Goldman fought back. She found a sympathetic mentor in her German teacher, who loaned her books and even took her to an opera. A passionate student, Goldman passed the exam for admission into a gymnasium, but her religion teacher refused to provide a certificate of good behavior and she was unable to attend.^[14]

Nikolai Chernyshevsky's novel What Is to Be Done? was a powerful lifelong inspiration for Goldman

The family moved to the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, where her father opened one unsuccessful store after another. Their poverty forced the children to work, and Goldman took an assortment of jobs including one in a corset shop. ^[15] As a teenager Goldman begged her father to allow her to return to school, but instead he threw her French book into the fire and shouted: "Girls do not have to learn much! All a Jewish daughter needs to know is how to prepare gefilte fish, cut noodles fine, and give the man plenty of children."^[16]

Goldman pursued an independent education on her own, however, and soon began to study the political turmoil around her, particularly the Nihilists responsible for assassinating Alexander II of Russia. The ensuing turmoil intrigued Goldman, even though she did not fully understand it at the time. When she read Chernyshevsky's novel, What Is to Be Done? (1863), she found a role model in the protagonist Vera, who adopts a Nihilist philosophy and escapes her repressive family to live freely and organize a sewing cooperative. The book enthralled Goldman and remained a source of inspiration throughout her life.^[17]

Her father, meanwhile, continued to insist on a domestic future for her, and he tried to arrange for her to be married at the age of fifteen. They fought about the issue constantly; he complained that she was becoming a "loose" woman, and she insisted that she would marry for love alone.^[18] At the corset shop, she was forced to fend off unwelcome advances from Russian officers and other men. One persistent suitor took her into a hotel room and committed what Goldman called "violent contact";^[19] two biographers call it rape.^[18]^[20] She was stunned by the experience, overcome by "shock at the discovery that the contact between man and woman could be so brutal and painful."^[21] Goldman felt that the encounter forever soured her interactions with men.^[21]

Rochester, New York[edit]

In 1885 Helena made plans to move to New York to join her sister Lena and her husband. Goldman wanted to join her sister, but their father refused to allow it. Despite Helena's offer to pay for the trip, Abraham turned a deaf ear to their pleas. Desperate, Goldman threatened to throw herself into the Neva River if she could not go. He finally agreed, and on December 29, 1885, Helena and Emma arrived at New York's Castle Garden.^[22] They moved into the Rochester home Lena had made with her husband Samuel. Fleeing the rising antisemitism of Saint Petersburg, their parents and brothers joined them a year later. Goldman began working as a seamstress, sewing overcoats for more than ten hours a day, earning two and a half dollars a week. She asked for a raise and was denied; she quit and took work at a smaller shop nearby.^[23]

At her new job, Goldman met a fellow worker named Jacob Kershner, who shared her love for books, dancing, and traveling, as well as her frustration with the monotony of factory work. After four months they married in February 1887.^[24] Once he moved in with Goldman's family, however, their relationship faltered. On their wedding night she discovered that he was impotent; they became emotionally and physically distant. Before long he became jealous and suspicious. She, meanwhile, was becoming more engaged with the political turmoil around herâ€”particularly the fallout of the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago and the anti-authoritarian political philosophy of anarchism. Less than a year after the wedding, they were divorced; he begged her to return and threatened to poison himself if she did not. They reunited, but after three months she left once again. Her parents considered her behavior "loose" and refused to allow Goldman into their home.^[25] Carrying her sewing machine in one hand and a bag with five dollars in the other, she left Rochester and headed southeast to New York City.^[26]

Most and Berkman[edit]

On her first day in the city, Goldman met two men who would forever change her life. At Sachs's CafÃ©, a gathering place for radicals, she was introduced to Alexander Berkman, an anarchist who invited her to a public speech that evening. They went to hear Johann Most, editor of a radical publication called Die Freiheit and an advocate of "propaganda of the deed"â€”the use of violence to instigate change.^[27] She was impressed by his fiery oration, and he took her under his wing, training her in methods of public speaking. He encouraged her vigorously, telling her that she was "to take my place when I am gone."^[28] One of her first public talks in support of "the Cause" was in Rochester. After convincing Helena not to tell their parents of her speech, Goldman found her mind a blank once on stage. Suddenly,^[29]

something strange happened. In a flash I saw itâ€”every incident of my three years in Rochester: the Garson factory, its drudgery and humiliation, the failure of my marriage, the Chicago crime.... I began to speak. Words I had never heard myself utter before came pouring forth, faster and faster. They came with passionate intensity.... The audience had vanished, the hall itself had disappeared; I was conscious only of my own words, of my ecstatic song.

Goldman enjoyed a decades-long relationship with her lover Alexander Berkman

Enchanted by the experience, she refined her public persona during subsequent engagements. Quickly, however, she found herself arguing with Most over her independence. After a momentous speech in Cleveland, she felt as though she had become "a parrot repeating Most's views"^[30] and resolved to express herself on the stage. Upon her return in New York, Most became furious and told her: "Who is not with me is against me!" ^[31] She left Die Freiheit and joined with another publication, Die Autonomie.^[32]

Meanwhile, she had begun a friendship with Berkman, whom she affectionately called Sasha. Before long they became lovers and moved into a communal apartment with his cousin Modest "Fedya" Stein and Goldman's friend, Helen Minkin, in rural Woodstock, Illinois.^[33] Although their relationship had numerous difficulties, Goldman and Berkman would share a close bond for decades, united by their anarchist principles and commitment to personal equality.^[34]

Homestead plot[edit]

Template:further One of the first political moments that brought Berkman and Goldman together was the Homestead Strike. In June 1892, a steel plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania owned by Andrew Carnegie became the focus of national attention when talks between the Carnegie Steel Company and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) broke down. The factory's manager was Henry Clay Frick, a fierce opponent of the union. When a final round of talks failed at the end of June, management closed the plant and locked out the workers, who immediately went on strike. Strikebreakers were brought in and the company hired Pinkerton guards to protect them. On July 6 a fight broke out between three hundred Pinkerton guards and a crowd of armed union workers. During the twelve-hour gunfight, seven guards and nine strikers were killed.^[35]

Goldman and Berkman believed that a retaliatory assassination of Carnegie Steel Company manager Henry Clay Frick (pictured) would "strike terror into the soul of his class" and "bring the teachings of Anarchism before the world".^[36]

When a majority of the nation's newspapers came out in support of the strikers, Goldman and Berkman resolved to assassinate Frick, an action they expected would inspire the workers to revolt against the capitalist system. Berkman chose to carry out the assassination, and ordered Goldman to stay behind in order to explain his motives after he went to jail. He would be in charge of the deed; she of the word.^[37] Berkman tried and failed to make a bomb, then set off for Pittsburgh to buy a gun and a suit of decent clothes. Goldman, meanwhile, decided to help fund the scheme through prostitution. Remembering the character of Sonya in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment (1866), she mused: "She had become a prostitute in order to support her little brothers and sisters.... Sensitive Sonya could sell her body; why not I?"^[38] Once on the street, she caught the eye of a man who took her into a saloon, bought her a beer, gave her ten dollars, informed her she did not have "the knack", and told her to quit the business. She was "too astounded for speech".^[38] She wrote to Helena, claiming illness, and asked her for fifteen dollars.^[39]

On July 23, Berkman gained access to Frick's office with a concealed handgun and shot Frick three times, then stabbed him in the leg. A group of workersâ€”far from joining in his attentatâ€”beat Berkman unconscious, and he was carried away by the police.^[40] Berkman was convicted of attempted murder^[41] and sentenced to twenty-two years in prison;^[42] his absence from her life was very difficult for Goldman.^[43] Convinced Goldman was involved in the plot, police raided her apartment andâ€”finding no evidenceâ€”pressured her landlord into evicting her. Worse, the attentat had failed to rouse the masses: workers and anarchists alike condemned Berkman's action. Johann Most, their former mentor, lashed out at Berkman and the assassination attempt. Furious at these attacks, Goldman brought a toy horsewhip to a public lecture and demanded, onstage, that Most explain his betrayal. He dismissed her, whereupon she struck him with the whip, broke it on her knee, and hurled the pieces at him.^[44]^[45] She later regretted her assault, confiding to a friend: "At the age of twenty-three, one does not reason."^[46]

"Inciting to riot"[edit]

When the Panic of 1893 struck in the following year, the United States suffered one of its worst economic crises ever. By year's end, the unemployment rate was higher than twenty percent,^[47] and "hunger demonstrations" sometimes gave way to riots. Goldman began speaking to crowds of frustrated men and women in New York. On August 21, she spoke to a crowd of nearly 3,000 people in Union Square, where she encouraged unemployed workers to take immediate action. Her exact words are unclear: undercover agents insist she ordered the crowd to "take everything ... by force",^[48] while Goldman later recounted this message: "Well then, demonstrate before the palaces of the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread."^[49] Later in court, Detective-Sergeant Charles Jacobs offered yet another version of her speech.^[50]

Goldman (shown here in Union Square, New York in 1916) urged unemployed workers to take direct action rather than depend on charity or government aid.

A week later she was arrested in Philadelphia and returned to New York City for trial, charged with "inciting to riot".^[51] During the train ride, Jacobs offered to drop the charges against her if she would inform on other radicals in the area. She responded by throwing a glass of ice water in his face.^[52] As she awaited trial, Goldman was visited by Nellie Bly, a reporter for the New York World. She spent two hours talking to Goldman, and wrote a positive article about the woman she described as a "modern Joan of Arc".^[53]

Despite this positive publicity, the jury was persuaded by Jacobs' testimony and scared by Goldman's politics. The assistant District Attorney questioned Goldman about her anarchism, as well as her atheism; the judge spoke of her as "a dangerous woman".^[54] She was sentenced to one year in the Blackwell's Island Penitentiary. Once inside she suffered an attack of rheumatism and was sent to the infirmary; there she befriended a visiting doctor and began studying medicine. She also read dozens of books, including works by the American activist-writers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne; poet Walt Whitman, and philosopher John Stuart Mill.^[55] When she was released after ten months, a raucous crowd of nearly three thousand people greeted her at the Thalia Theater in New York City. She soon became swamped with requests for interviews and lectures.^[56]

To make money, Goldman decided to pursue the medical work she had studied in prison. However, her preferred fields of specializationâ€”midwifery and massageâ€”were not available to nursing students in the USA. Thus, she sailed to Europe, lecturing in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. She met with renowned anarchists like Errico Malatesta, Louise Michel, and Peter Kropotkin. In Vienna she received two diplomas and put them immediately to use back in the US. Alternating between lectures and midwifery, she conducted the first cross-country tour by an anarchist speaker. In November 1899 she returned to Europe, where she met the anarchist Hippolyte Havel, with whom she went to France and helped organize the International Anarchist Congress on the outskirts of Paris.^[57]

McKinley assassination[edit]

See Wikipedia:William McKinley assassination

On September 6, 1901, Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed factory worker and registered Republican with a history of mental illness, shot US President William McKinley twice during a public speaking event in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was hit in the breastbone and stomach; eight days later, McKinley died. ^[58] Czolgosz was arrested and interrogated around the clock. During interrogation he claimed to be an Anarchist and said he had been inspired to his action after attending a speech by Goldman. The authorities used this pretext to charge that she had planned the action. They tracked her to a residence in Chicago she shared with Havel and Abe and Mary Isaak, an anarchist couple.^[59]^[60] Goldman was arrested, along with Abe Isaak, Havel, and ten other anarchists.^[61]

Leon Czolgosz insisted that Goldman had not guided his plan to assassinate US President William McKinley, but she was arrested and held for two weeks.

Earlier, Czolgosz had tried but failed to become friends with Goldman and her companions. During a talk in Cleveland, Czolgosz had approached Goldman and asked her advice on which books he should read. In July 1901, he had appeared at the Isaak house, asking a series of unusual questions. They assumed he was an infiltrator, like a number of police agents sent to spy on radical groups. They had remained distant from him, and Abe Isaak sent a notice to associates warning of "another spy".^[62]

Although Czolgosz repeatedly denied Goldman's involvement, the police held her in close custody, subjecting her to what she called the "third degree".^[63] She explained their distrust of him, and it was clear she had not had any significant contact with Czolgosz. No evidence was found linking Goldman to the attack, and she was eventually released after two weeks of detention. Before McKinley died, Goldman offered to provide nursing care, referring to him as "merely a human being".^[64] Czolgosz, despite considerable evidence of mental illness, was convicted of murder and executed.^[65]

Throughout her detention and after her release, Goldman steadfastly refused to condemn Czolgosz's actions, standing virtually alone in doing so. Friends and supportersâ€”including Berkmanâ€”urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a "supersensitive being"^[66] and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him.^[66] She was vilified in the press as the "high priestess of anarchy",^[67] while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.^[68] In the wake of these events, socialism gained support over anarchism among US radicals. McKinley's successor, Theodore Roosevelt, declared his intent to crack down "not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists".^[69]

Mother Earth and Berkman's release[edit]

Main article: Mother Earth (magazine)

After Czolgosz's execution, Goldman withdrew from the world. Scorned by her fellow anarchists, vilified by the press, and separated from her love, she retreated into anonymity and nursing. "It was bitter and hard to face life anew," she wrote later.^[70] Using the name E. G. Smith, she vanished from public life and took on a series of private nursing jobs.^[71] When the US Congress passed the Anarchist Exclusion Act, however, a new wave of activism rose to oppose it, carrying Goldman back into the movement. A coalition of people and organizations across the left end of the political spectrum opposed the law on grounds that it violated freedom of speech, and she had the nation's ear once again.

When an English anarchist named John Turner was arrested under the Anarchist Exclusion Act and threatened with deportation, Goldman joined forces with the Free Speech League to champion his cause.^[72] The league enlisted the aid of Clarence Darrow and Edgar Lee Masters, who took Turner's case to the US Supreme Court. Although Turner and the League lost, Goldman considered it a victory of propaganda.^[73] She had returned to anarchist activism, but it was taking its toll on her. "I never felt so weighed down," she wrote to Berkman. "I fear I am forever doomed to remain public property and to have my life worn out through the care for the lives of others."^[74]

File:Mother Earth 1912.jpg

Goldman's Mother Earth magazine became a home to radical activists and literary free thinkers around the US.

In 1906 Goldman decided to start a publication of her own, "a place of expression for the young idealists in arts and letters".^[75] Mother Earth was staffed by a cadre of radical activists, including Hippolyte Havel, Max Baginski, and Leonard Abbott. In addition to publishing original works by its editors and anarchists around the world, Mother Earth reprinted selections from a variety of writers. These included the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and British writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Goldman wrote frequently about anarchism, politics, labor issues, atheism, sexuality, and feminism.^[76]^[77]

On May 18 of the same year, Alexander Berkman was released from prison. Carrying a bouquet of roses, she met him on the platform and found herself "seized by terror and pity"^[78] as she beheld his gaunt, pale form. Neither was able to speak; they returned to her home in silence. For weeks he struggled to readjust to life on the outside; an abortive speaking tour ended in failure, and in Cleveland he purchased a revolver with the intent of killing himself.^[79]^[80] He returned to New York, however, and learned that Goldman had been arrested with a group of activists meeting to reflect on Czolgosz. Invigorated anew by this violation of freedom of assembly, he declared "My resurrection has come!"^[81] and set about securing their release.^[82]

Berkman took the helm of Mother Earth in 1907, while Goldman toured the country to raise funds to keep it functional. Editing the magazine was a revitalizing experience for Berkman; his relationship with Goldman faltered, however, and he had an affair with a fifteen-year-old anarchist named Becky Edelsohn. Goldman was pained by his rejection of her, but considered it a consequence of his prison experience.^[83] Later that year she served as a delegate from the US to the International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam. Anarchists and syndicalists from around the world gathered to sort out the tension between the two ideologies, but no decisive agreement was reached. Goldman returned to the US and continued speaking to large audiences.^[84]

Reitman, essays, and birth control[edit]

For the next ten years, Goldman traveled around the country nonstop, delivering lectures and agitating for anarchism. The coalitions formed in opposition to the Anarchist Exclusion Act had given her an appreciation for reaching out to those of other political persuasions. When the US Justice Department sent spies to observe, they reported the meetings as "packed".^[85] Writers, journalists, artists, judges, and workers from across the spectrum spoke of her "magnetic power", her "convincing presence", her "force, eloquence, and fire".^[86]

In the spring of 1908 Goldman met and fell in love with Ben Reitman, the so-called "Hobo doctor". Having grown up in Chicago's tenderloin district, Reitman spent several years as a drifter before attaining a medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago. As a doctor, he attended to people suffering from poverty and illness, particularly venereal diseases. He and Goldman began an affair; they shared a commitment to free love, but whereas Reitman took a variety of lovers, Goldman did not. She tried to reconcile her feelings of jealousy with a belief in freedom of the heart, but found it difficult.^[87]

Goldman joined Margaret Sanger in crusading for women's access to birth control; both women were arrested for violating the Comstock Law.

Two years later Goldman began feeling frustrated with lecture audiences. She yearned to "reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused".^[88] Thus she collected a series of speeches and items she had written for Mother Earth and published a book called Anarchism and Other Essays. Covering a wide variety of topics, Goldman tries to represent "the mental and soul struggles of twenty-one years".^[88] In addition to a comprehensive look at anarchism and its criticisms, the book includes essays on patriotism, women's suffrage, marriage, and prisons.

When Margaret Sanger, an advocate of access to contraception, coined the term "birth control" and disseminated information about various methods in the June 1914 issue of her magazine The Woman Rebel, she received aggressive support from Goldman. Sanger was arrested in August under the Comstock Law, which prohibited the dissemination of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious articles"^[89]â€”including information relating to birth control. Although they later split from Sanger over charges of insufficient support, Goldman and Reitman distributed copies of Sanger's pamphlet Family Limitation (along with a similar essay of Reitman's). In 1915 Goldman conducted a nationwide speaking tour in part to raise awareness about contraception options. Although the nation's attitude toward the topic seemed to be liberalizing, Goldman was arrested in February 1916 and charged with violation of the Comstock Law. Refusing to pay a $100 fine, she spent two weeks in a prison workhouse, which she saw as an "opportunity" to reconnect with those rejected by society.^[90]

World War I[edit]

Although US President Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 under the slogan "He kept us out of the war", at the start of his second term he decided that Germany's continued deployment of unrestricted submarine warfare was sufficient cause for the US to enter World War I. Shortly afterward, Congress passed the Selective Service Act of 1917, which required all males aged 21â€“30 to register for military conscription. Goldman saw the decision as an exercise in militarist aggression, driven by capitalism. She declared in Mother Earth her intent to resist conscription, and to oppose US involvement in the war.^[91]

Goldman was imprisoned for two years after opposing conscription in the US during World War I.

To this end, she and Berkman organized the No Conscription League of New York, which proclaimed: "We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, antimilitarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments."^[92] The group became a vanguard for anti-draft activism, and chapters began to appear in other cities. When police began raiding the group's public events to find young men who had not registered for the draft, however, Goldman and others focused their efforts on spreading pamphlets and other written work.^[93] In the midst of the nation's patriotic fervor, many elements of the political left refused to support the League's efforts. The Women's Peace Party, for example, ceased its opposition to the war once the US entered it. The Socialist Party of America took an official stance against US involvement, but supported Wilson in most of his activities.^[94]

On June 15, 1917, Goldman and Berkman were arrested during a raid of their offices which yielded "a wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda" for the authorities.^[95] The New York Times reported that Goldman asked to change into a more appropriate outfit, and emerged in a gown of "royal purple".^[95]^[96] The pair were charged with conspiracy to "induce persons not to register"^[97] under the newly enacted Espionage Act,^[98] and were held on US$25,000 bail each. Defending herself and Berkman during their trial, Goldman invoked the First Amendment, asking how the government could claim to fight for democracy abroad while suppressing free speech at home:^[99]

We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

The jury saw it differently, and found them guilty; Judge Julius Marshuetz Mayer imposed the maximum sentence two years' imprisonment, a $10,000 fine each, and the possibility of deportation after their release from prison. As she was transported to Missouri State Penitentiary (now Jefferson City Correctional Center), Goldman wrote to a friend: "Two years imprisonment for having made an uncompromising stand for one's ideal. Why that is a small price."^[100]

In prison she was assigned once again to work as a seamstress, under the eye of a "miserable gutter-snipe of a twenty-one-year-old boy paid to get results".^[101] She met the socialist Kate Richards O'Hare, who had also been imprisoned under the Espionage Act. Although they differed on political strategyâ€”Kate O'Hare believed in voting to achieve state powerâ€”the two women came together to agitate for better conditions among prisoners.^[102] Goldman also met and became friends with Gabriella Segata Antolini, an anarchist and follower of Luigi Galleani. Antolini had been arrested transporting a satchel filled with dynamite on a Chicago-bound train. She had refused to cooperate with authorities, and was sent to prison for fourteen months. Working together to make life better for the other inmates, the three women became known as "The Trinity". Goldman was released on September 27, 1919.^[103]

Deportation[edit]

Goldman and Berkman were released during America's Red Scare of 1919â€“20 when public anxiety about wartime pro-German activities had morphed into an exaggerated fear of Bolshevism and the prospect of an imminent radical revolution. Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer and J. Edgar Hoover, head of the U.S. Department of Justice's General Intelligence Division, were intent on using the Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1918 to deport any non-citizens they could identify as advocates of anarchy or revolution. "Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman," Hoover wrote while they were in prison, "are, beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in this country and return to the community will result in undue harm."^[104]

At her deportation hearing on October 27, she refused to answer questions about her beliefs on the grounds that her American citizenship invalidated any attempt to deport her under the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which could be enforced only against non-citizens of the U.S. She presented a written statement instead: "Today so-called aliens are deported. Tomorrow native Americans will be banished. Already some patrioteers are suggesting that native American sons to whom democracy is a sacred ideal should be exiled."^[105] Louis Post at the Department of Labor, which had ultimately authority over deportation decisions, determined that the revocation of her husband's American citizenship in 1908 had revoked hers as well. After initially promising a court fight,^[106] she decided not appeal his ruling.^[107]

The Labor Department included Goldman and Berkman among 249 aliens it deported en masse, mostly people with only vague associations with radical groups who had been swept up in government raids in November.^[108] Buford, a ship the press nicknamed the "Soviet Ark," sailed from New York on December 21. Some 58 enlisted men and four officers provided security on the journey and pistols were distributed to the crew.^[109]^[110] Most of the press approved enthusiastically. The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "It is hoped and expected that other vessels, larger, more commodious, carrying similar cargoes, will follow in her wake."^[111] The ship landed her charges in Hanko, Finland on Saturday, January 17, 1920.^[112] Upon arrival in Finland, authorities there conducted the deportees to the Russian frontier under a flag of truce.^[113]^[114]

Russia[edit]

Goldman was so disenchanted by her experiences in the Soviet Union that in 1923 she wrote My Disillusionment in Russia.

Goldman initially viewed the Bolshevik revolution in a positive light. She wrote in Mother Earth that despite its dependence on Communist government, it represented "the most fundamental, far-reaching and all-embracing principles of human freedom and of economic well-being".^[115] By the time she neared Europe, however, she expressed fears about what was to come. She was worried about the ongoing Russian Civil War and the possibility of being seized by anti-Bolshevik forces. The state, anti-capitalist though it was, also posed a threat. "I could never in my life work within the confines of the State," she wrote to her niece, "Bolshevist or otherwise."^[116]

She quickly discovered that her fears were justified. Days after returning to Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), she was shocked to hear a party official refer to free speech as a "bourgeois superstition".^[117] As she and Berkman traveled around the country, they found repression, mismanagement, and corruption instead of the equality and worker empowerment they had dreamed of. Those who questioned the government were demonized as counter-revolutionaries, and workers labored under severe conditions. They met with Vladimir Lenin, who assured them that government suppression of press liberties was justified. He told them: "There can be no free speech in a revolutionary period."^[118] Berkman was more willing to forgive the government's actions in the name of "historical necessity", but he eventually joined Goldman in opposing the Soviet state's authority.^[119]

In March 1921, strikes erupted in Petrograd when workers took to the streets demanding better food rations and more union autonomy. Goldman and Berkman felt a responsibility to support the strikers, stating: "To remain silent now is impossible, even criminal."^[120] The unrest spread to the port town of Kronstadt, where a military response was ordered. In the fighting that ensued, approximately 1,000 rebelling sailors and soldiers were killed and two thousand more were arrested. In the wake of these events, Goldman and Berkman decided there was no future in the country for them. "More and more", she wrote, "we have come to the conclusion that we can do nothing here. And as we can not keep up a life of inactivity much longer we have decided to leave."^[121]

In December 1921 they left the country and went to the Latvian capital city of Riga. The US commissioner in that city wired officials in Washington DC, who began requesting information from other governments about the couple's activities. After a short trip to Stockholm, they moved to Berlin for several years; during this time she agreed to write a series of articles about her time in Russia for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World. These were later collected and published in book form as My Disillusionment in Russia (1923) and My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924). The titles of these books were added by the publishers to be scintillating and Goldman protested, albeit in vain.^[122]

England, Canada, and France[edit]

Goldman found it difficult to acclimate to the German leftist community. Communists despised her outspokenness about Soviet repression; liberals derided her radicalism. While Berkman remained in Berlin helping Russian exiles, she moved to London in September 1924. Upon her arrival, the novelist Rebecca West arranged a reception dinner for her, attended by philosopher Bertrand Russell, novelist H. G. Wells, and more than two hundred others. When she spoke of her dissatisfaction with the Soviet government, the audience was shocked. Some left the gathering; others berated her for prematurely criticizing the Communist experiment.^[123] Later, in a letter, Russell declined to support her efforts at systemic change in the Soviet Union and ridiculed her anarchist idealism.^[124]

The 1927 executions of Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco (right) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were troubling for Goldman, living alone in Canada at the time.

In 1925, the spectre of deportation loomed again, but a Scottish anarchist named James Colton offered to marry her and provide British citizenship. Although they were only distant acquaintances, she accepted and they were married on June 27, 1925. Her new status gave her peace of mind, and allowed her to travel to France and Canada.^[125] Life in London was stressful for Goldman; she wrote to Berkman: "I am awfully tired and so lonely and heartsick. It is a dreadful feeling to come back here from lectures and find not a kindred soul, no one who cares whether one is dead or alive."^[126] She worked on analytical studies of drama, expanding on the work she had published in 1914. But the audiences were "awful" and she never finished her second book on the subject.^[127]

Goldman traveled to Canada in 1927, just in time to receive news of the impending executions of Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston. Angered by the many irregularities of the case, she saw it as another travesty of justice in the US. She longed to join the mass demonstrations in Boston; memories of the Haymarket affair overwhelmed her, compounded by her isolation. "Then," she wrote, "I had my life before me to take up the cause for those killed. Now I have nothing."^[128]^[129]

In 1928 she began writing her autobiography, with the support of a group of admirers, including journalist H. L. Mencken, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, novelist Theodore Dreiser and art collector Peggy Guggenheim, who raised $4,000 for her.^[130] She secured a cottage in the French coastal city of Saint-Tropez and spent two years recounting her life. Berkman offered sharply critical feedback, which she eventually incorporated at the price of a strain on their relationship.^[131] Goldman intended the book, Living My Life, as a single volume for a price the working class could afford (she urged no more than $5.00); her publisher Alfred A. Knopf, however, released it as two volumes sold together for $7.50. Goldman was furious, but unable to force a change. Due in large part to the Great Depression, sales were sluggish despite keen interest from libraries around the US.^[132] Critical reviews were generally enthusiastic; the New York Times, New Yorker, and Saturday Review of Literature all listed it as one of the year's top non-fiction books.^[133]

In 1933 Goldman received permission to lecture in the United States under the condition that she speak only about drama and her autobiographyâ€”but not current political events. She returned to New York on February 2, 1934 to generally positive press coverageâ€”except from Communist publications. Soon she was surrounded by admirers and friends, besieged with invitations to talks and interviews. Her visa expired in May, and she went to Toronto in order to file another request to visit the US. However, this second attempt was denied. She stayed in Canada, writing articles for US publications.^[134]

In February and March 1936 Berkman underwent a pair of prostate gland operations. Recuperating in Nice and cared for by his companion, Emmy Eckstein, he missed Goldman's sixty-seventh birthday in Saint-Tropez in June. She wrote in sadness, but he never read the letter; she received a call in the middle of the night that Berkman was in great distress. She left for Nice immediately but when she arrived that morning, Goldman found that he had shot himself and was in a nearly comatose paralysis. He died the next day.^[135]

Spanish Civil War[edit]

In July 1936, the Spanish Civil War started after an attempted coup d'Ã©tat by parts of the Spanish Army against the government of the Second Spanish Republic. At the same time, the Spanish anarchists, fighting against the fascist forces, started an anarchist revolution. Goldman was invited to Barcelona and in an instant, as she wrote to her niece, "the crushing weight that was pressing down on my heart since Sasha's death left me as by magic".^[136] She was welcomed by the ConfederaciÃ³n Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and FederaciÃ³n Anarquista IbÃ©rica (FAI) organizations, and for the first time in her life lived in a community run by and for anarchists, according to true anarchist principles. "In all my life", she wrote later, "I have not met with such warm hospitality, comradeship and solidarity."^[137] After touring a series of collectives in the province of Huesca, she told a group of workers: "Your revolution will destroy forever [the notion] that anarchism stands for chaos."^[138] She began editing the weekly CNT-FAI Information Bulletin and responded to English-language mail.^[139]

Goldman edited the English-language Bulletin of the Anarcho-syndicalist organizations ConfederaciÃ³n Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and FederaciÃ³n Anarquista IbÃ©rica (FAI) during the Spanish Civil War.

Goldman began to worry about the future of Spain's anarchism when the CNT-FAI joined a coalition government in 1937â€”against the core anarchist principle of abstaining from state structuresâ€”and, more distressingly, made repeated concessions to Communist forces in the name of uniting against fascism. She wrote that cooperating with Communists in Spain was "a denial of our comrades in Stalin's concentration camps".^[140] Russia, meanwhile, refused to send weapons to anarchist forces, and disinformation campaigns were being waged against the anarchists across Europe and the US. Her faith in the movement unshaken, Goldman returned to London as an official representative of the CNT-FAI.^[141]

Delivering lectures and giving interviews, Goldman enthusiastically supported the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists. She wrote regularly for Spain and the World, a biweekly newspaper focusing on the civil war. In May 1937, however, Communist-led forces attacked anarchist strongholds and broke up agrarian collectives. Newspapers in England and elsewhere accepted the timeline of events offered by the Second Spanish Republic at face value. British journalist George Orwell, present for the crackdown, wrote: "[T]he accounts of the Barcelona riots in May ... beat everything I have ever seen for lying."^[142]

Goldman returned to Spain in September, but the CNT-FAI appeared to her like people "in a burning house". Worse, anarchists and other radicals around the world refused to support their cause.^[143] The Nationalist forces declared victory in Spain just before she returned to London. Frustrated by England's repressive atmosphereâ€”which she called "more fascist than the fascists"^[144]â€”she returned to Canada in 1939. Her service to the anarchist cause in Spain was not forgotten, however. On her seventieth birthday, the former Secretary-General of the CNT-FAI, Mariano VÃ¡zquez, sent a message to her from Paris, praising her for her contributions and naming her as "our spiritual mother". She called it "the most beautiful tribute I have ever received".^[145]

Final years[edit]

Goldman's grave in Illinois' Forest Home Cemetery, near those of the anarchists executed for the Haymarket affair. The dates on the stone are incorrect.

As the events preceding World War II began to unfold in Europe, Goldman reiterated her opposition to wars waged by governments. "[M]uch as I loathe Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Franco," she wrote to a friend, "I would not support a war against them and for the democracies which, in the last analysis, are only Fascist in disguise."^[146] She felt that England and France had missed their opportunity to oppose fascism, and that the coming war would only result in "a new form of madness in the world".^[146] This position was vastly unpopular, as Hitler's attacks on Jewish communities reverberated throughout the Jewish diaspora.

Death[edit]

On Saturday, February 17, 1940, Goldman suffered a debilitating stroke. She became paralyzed on her right side, and although her hearing was unaffected, she could not speak. As one friend described it: "Just to think that here was Emma, the greatest orator in America, unable to utter one word."^[147] For three months she improved slightly, receiving visitors and on one occasion gesturing to her address book to signal that a friend might find friendly contacts during a trip to Mexico. She suffered another stroke on May 8, however, and on May 14 she died in Toronto, Canada, aged 70. ^[148]^[149] The US Immigration and Naturalization Service allowed her body to be brought back to the United States. She was buried in German Waldheim Cemetery (now named Forest Home Cemetery) in Forest Park, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, among the graves of other labor and social activists including those executed after the Haymarket affair.^[150] The bas relief on her grave marker was created by sculptor Jo Davidson.

Philosophy[edit]

Goldman spoke and wrote extensively on a wide variety of issues. While she rejected orthodoxy and fundamentalist thinking, she was an important contributor to several fields of modern political philosophy. She was influenced by many diverse thinkers and writers, including Mikhail Bakunin, Henry David Thoreau, Peter Kropotkin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nikolai Chernyshevsky, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Another philosopher who influenced Goldman was Friedrich Nietzsche. In her autobiography she wrote: "Nietzsche was not a social theorist, but a poet, a rebel, and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were aristocrats."^[151]

Anarchism[edit]

Anarchism was central to Goldman's view of the world and she is today considered one of the most important figures in the history of anarchism. First drawn to it during the persecution of anarchists after the 1886 Haymarket affair, she wrote and spoke regularly on behalf of anarchism. In the title essay of her book Anarchism and Other Essays, she wrote:

Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.^[152]

Template:Anarchism sidebar Goldman's anarchism was intensely personal. She believed it was necessary for anarchist thinkers to live their beliefs, demonstrating their convictions with every action and word. "I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct," she once wrote. "I care if his spirit of today is correct."^[153] Anarchism and free association were to her logical responses to the confines of government control and capitalism. "It seems to me that these are the new forms of life," she wrote, "and that they will take the place of the old, not by preaching or voting, but by living them."^[153]

At the same time, she believed that the movement on behalf of human liberty must be staffed by liberated humans. While dancing among fellow anarchists one evening, she was chided by an associate for her carefree demeanor. In her autobiography Goldman wrote:

I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown in my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to behave as a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things."^[154]

Capitalism[edit]

Goldman believed that the economic system of capitalism was inimical to human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in Anarchism and Other Essays, "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."^[155] She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."^[155]

Originally opposed to anything less than complete revolution, Goldman was challenged during one talk by an elderly worker in the front row. In her autobiography, she wrote:

He said that he understood my impatience with such small demands as a few hours less a day, or a few dollars more a week.... But what were men of his age to do? They were not likely to live to see the ultimate overthrow of the capitalist system. Were they also to forgo the release of perhaps two hours a day from the hated work? That was all they could hope to see realized in their lifetime.^[30]

Goldman realized that smaller efforts for improvement such as higher wages and shorter hours could be part of a social revolution.

Tactics[edit]

Among the tactics that Goldman endorsed was targeted violence. Early in her career Goldman believed that the use of violence, while distasteful, could be effective in achieving a greater good. She advocated propaganda of the deedâ€”attentat, or violence carried out to encourage the masses to revolt. She supported her partner Alexander Berkman's attempt to kill industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and even begged him to allow her to participate.^[156] She believed that Frick's actions during the Homestead strike were reprehensible and that his murder would produce a positive result for working people. "Yes," she wrote later in her autobiography, "the end in this case justified the means."^[156] While she never gave explicit approval of Leon Czolgosz's assassination of U.S. President William McKinley, she defended his ideals and believed actions like his were a natural consequence of repressive institutions. As she wrote in "The Psychology of Political Violence": "the accumulated forces in our social and economic life, culminating in an act of violence, are similar to the terrors of the atmosphere, manifested in storm and lightning."^[157]

Her experiences in Russia led her to reassess her earlier belief that revolutionary ends justified violent means. The repression and authoritarian control of the Soviet Union caused a radical shift in her perspective. Indeed, by 1923 she had nearly reversed her position. In the afterword to My Disillusionment in Russia, she wrote: "There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.... The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose...."^[158]

Nevertheless, she viewed the state as essentially and inevitably a tool of control and domination. As a result, Goldman believed that voting was useless at best and dangerous at worst. Voting, she wrote, provided an illusion of participation while masking the true structures of decision-making. Instead, Goldman advocated targeted resistance in the form of strikes, protests, and "direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code".^[159] She maintained an anti-voting position even when many anarcho-syndicalists in 1930s Spain voted for the formation of a liberal republic. Goldman wrote that any power anarchists wielded as a voting bloc should instead be used to strike across the country.^[160] She disagreed with the movement for women's suffrage, which demanded the right of women to vote. In her essay "Woman Suffrage", she ridicules the idea that women's involvement would infuse the democratic state with a more just orientation: "As if women have not sold their votes, as if women politicians cannot be bought!"^[161] She agreed with the suffragists' assertion that women are equal to men, but disagreed that their participation alone would make the state more just. "To assume, therefore, that she would succeed in purifying something which is not susceptible of purification, is to credit her with supernatural powers."^[162]

Feminism[edit]

Young anarcha-feminists at an anti-globalization protest quote Emma Goldman.

Although she was hostile to the suffragist goals of first-wave feminism, Goldman advocated passionately for the rights of women, and is today heralded as a founder of anarcha-feminism, which challenges patriarchy as a hierarchy to be resisted alongside state power and class divisions.^[163] In 1897 she wrote: "I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood."^[164]

A nurse by training, she was an early advocate for educating women concerning contraception. Like many contemporary feminists, she saw abortion as a tragic consequence of social conditions, and birth control as a positive alternative. Goldman was also an advocate of free love, and a strong critic of marriage. She saw early feminists as confined in their scope and bounded by social forces of Puritanism and capitalism. She wrote: "We are in need of unhampered growth out of old traditions and habits. The movement for women's emancipation has so far made but the first step in that direction."^[165]^[166]

Free speech[edit]

As an anarchist, Goldman championed numerous human rights causes, particularly the issue of free speech. Widely persecuted for her advocacy of anarchism and opposition to World War I, Goldman was active in the early 20th century free speech movement, seeing freedom of expression as a fundamental necessity for achieving social change.^[167]^[168]^[169]^[170] Her outspoken championship of her ideals, in the face of persistent arrests, inspired Roger Baldwin, one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union.^[171]

Prisons[edit]

Another issue that Goldman frequently addressed was criminal justice. She was a passionate critic of the prison system and viewed crime as a natural outgrowth of an unjust economic system. In her essay "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure", she quotes liberally from the nineteenth-century authors Fyodor Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde, and writes: "Year after year the gates of prison hells return to the world an emaciated, deformed, will-less, shipwrecked crew of humanity, with the Cain mark on their foreheads, their hopes crushed, all their natural inclinations thwarted. With nothing but hunger and inhumanity to greet them, these victims soon sink back into crime as the only possibility of existence."^[172]

Homosexuality[edit]

Goldman was also an outspoken critic of prejudice against homosexuals. Her belief that social liberation should extend to gay men and lesbians was virtually unheard of at the time, even among anarchists.^[173] As Magnus Hirschfeld wrote, "she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public."^[174] In numerous speeches and letters she defended the right of gay men and lesbians to love as they pleased and condemned the fear and stigma associated with homosexuality. As Goldman wrote in a letter to Hirschfeld, "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life."^[174]

Atheism[edit]

A committed atheist, Goldman viewed religion as another instrument of control and domination. Her essay "The Philosophy of Atheism" quotes Bakunin at length on the subject, and adds:

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of Atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.^[175]

In essays like "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism" and a speech entitled "The Failure of Christianity", Goldman made more than a few enemies among religious communities by attacking their moralistic attitudes and efforts to control human behavior. She blamed Christianity for "the perpetuation of a slave society", arguing that it dictated individuals' actions on Earth and offered poor people a false promise of a plentiful future in heaven.^[176] She was also critical of Zionism, which she saw as another failed experiment in state control.^[177]

Legacy[edit]

Goldman was well-known during her life, described asâ€”among other thingsâ€”"the most dangerous woman in America".^[178] After her death and through the middle part of the 20th century, her fame faded. Scholars and historians of anarchism viewed her as a great speaker and activist, but did not regard her as a philosophical or theoretical thinker on par with, for instance, Kropotkin.^[179]

Goldman's image, often accompanying a popular paraphrase of her ideasâ€”"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution"â€”has been reproduced on countless walls, garments, stickers, and posters as an icon of freedom.

In 1970, Dover Press reissued Goldman's biography, Living My Life, and in 1972, feminist writer Alix Kates Shulman issued a collection of Goldman's writing and speeches, Red Emma Speaks. These works brought Goldman's life and writings to a larger audience, and she was in particular lionized by the women's movement of the late twentieth century. In 1973 Shulman was asked by a printer friend for a quotation by Goldman for use on a t-shirt. She sent him the selection from Living My Life about "the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things"; the printer created a paraphrase that has become one of Goldman's most famous quotations, even though she herself probably never said or wrote it: "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."^[180] Variations of this saying have appeared on thousands of t-shirts, buttons, posters, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, hats, and other items.^[181] In Living My Life Goldman recounts being admonished for dancing, "that it did not behoove an agitator to dance." She further wrote "I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it."^[181]

The women's movement of the 1970s that "rediscovered" Goldman was accompanied by a resurgent anarchist movement, beginning in the late 1960s, which also reinvigorated scholarly attention to earlier anarchists. The growth of feminism also initiated some reevaluation of Goldman's philosophical work, with scholars pointing out the significance of Goldman's contributions to anarchist thought in her time. Goldman's belief in the value of aesthetics, for example, can be seen in the later influences of anarchism and the arts. Similarly, Goldman is now given credit for significantly influencing and broadening the scope of activism on issues of sexual liberty, reproductive rights, and freedom of expression.^[182]

Goldman has been depicted in numerous works of fiction over the years, perhaps most notably by Maureen Stapleton, who won an Academy Award for her role as Goldman in Warren Beatty's 1981 film Reds. Goldman has also been a character in two Broadway musicals, Ragtime and Assassins. Plays depicting Goldman's life include Howard Zinn's play, Emma;^[183] Martin Duberman's Mother Earth (1991);^[184] Jessica Litwak's Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy, and Other Affairs (Goldman's relationship with Berkman and her arrest in connection with McKinley's assassination); Lynn Rogoff's Love Ben, Love Emma (Goldman's relationship with Reitman);^[185] and Carol Bolt's Red Emma.^[186] Ethel Mannin's 1941 novel Red Rose is also based on Goldman's Life.^[187]

Goldman has been honored by a number of organizations named in her memory. The Emma Goldman Clinic, a women's health center located in Iowa City, Iowa selected Goldman as a namesake "in recognition of her challenging spirit."^[188] Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, an infoshop in Baltimore, Maryland adopted her name out of their belief "in the ideas and ideals that she fought for her entire life: free speech, sexual and racial equality and independence, the right to organize in our jobs and in our own lives, ideas and ideals that we continue to fight for, even today".^[189]

Works[edit]

Goldman was a prolific writer, penning countless pamphlets and articles on a diverse range of subjects. She authored six books, including her autobiography, Living My Life, and a biography of fellow anarchist Voltairine de Cleyre.

Books written by Emma Goldman[edit]

Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910.
The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. Boston: Gorham Press, 1914.
My Disillusionment in Russia. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923.
My Further Disillusionment in Russia. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924.
Living My Life. New York: Knopf, 1931.
Voltairine de Cleyre. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Oriole Press, 1932.

Edited collections[edit]

Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches. New York: Random House, 1972. ISBN 0-394-47095-8
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 1 â€“ Made for America, 1890â€“1901. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN 0-520-08670-8.
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 2 â€“ Making Speech Free, 1902â€“1909. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0-520-22569-4.

Notes[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 University of Illinois at Chicago Biography of Emma Goldman. UIC Library Emma Goldman Collection. Retrieved on December 13, 2008.
↑ Streitmatter, Rodger (2001). Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America, p. 122â€“134, New York: Columbia University Press.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 24.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Goldman, Living, p. 447.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 5.
↑ The order of birth is unclear; Wexler (in Intimate, p. 13) notes that although Goldman writes of herself as her mother's fourth child, her brother Louis (who died at the age of six) was probably born after her.
↑ Chalberg, p. 13.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 12.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 11.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 12.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 13â€“14.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 20.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 28.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 6â€“7.
↑ Chalberg, p. 15.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 12.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 23â€“26.
↑ ^18.0 ^18.1 Chalberg, p. 16.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 22.
↑ Falk, Love, p. 14.
↑ ^21.0 ^21.1 Goldman, Living, p. 23.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 27.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 30â€“31.
↑ Falk, Love, pp. 15â€“16.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 15â€“17.
↑ Chalberg, p. 27.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 27â€“28.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 40.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 51.
↑ ^30.0 ^30.1 Goldman, Living, p. 52.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 54.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 53.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 57.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 57â€“58.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 61â€“62.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 63.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 63â€“65.
↑ ^38.0 ^38.1 Goldman, Living, p. 91.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 45.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 42â€“43; Falk, Love, p. 25; Wexler, Intimate, p. 65.
↑ "Alexander Berkman, the Anarchist, to Be Deported; Case of Emma Goldman Now Up for Decision". The New York Times. November 26, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04EED71031E03ABC4E51DFB7678382609EDE&scp=2&sq=Alexander+Berkman+convicted+murder&st=p. </li>
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 106.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 65.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 65â€“66.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 105.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 66.
↑ "Panic of 1893". Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Retrieved on December 18, 2007.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 46.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 123.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 58â€“59.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 76.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 57.
↑ Nellie Bly, "Nelly Bly Again: She Interviews Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists", New York World, September 17, 1893.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 60.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 78.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 78â€“79.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 84â€“89.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 65â€“66.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 68.
↑ Chalberg, p. 73.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 104.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 103â€“104.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 300.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 76.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 74.
↑ ^66.0 ^66.1 Chalberg, p. 78.
↑ Falk, The American Years, p. 461.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 106â€“112.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 81.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 318.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 115.
↑ Falk, Making Speech Free, p. 557.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 84â€“87.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 87.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 377.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 88â€“91.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 121â€“130.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 384.
↑ Chalberg, p. 94.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 97â€“98.
↑ Quoted in Goldman, Living, p. 391.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, p. 98.
↑ Chalberg, p. 97.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 135â€“137.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 166.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 168.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 140â€“147.
↑ ^88.0 ^88.1 Goldman, Anarchism, p. 49.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 210.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, pp. 211â€“215.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 186â€“187; Wexler, Intimate, p. 230.
↑ Berkman, p. 155.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 186â€“187.
↑ Chalberg, p. 129.
↑ ^95.0 ^95.1 "Emma Goldman and A. Berkman Behind the Bars". The New York Times. June 16, 1917. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EFDA123BE03ABC4E52DFB066838C609EDE. Retrieved December 17, 2007. </li>
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 232.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 134.
↑ Francis H., (1964). "The Trials of Emma Goldman, Anarchist," The Review of Politics, 26, 444â€“445.
↑ Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917 (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917)
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 235â€“244.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 141.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 141â€“142.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 253â€“263.
↑ Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 215.
↑ "Deportation Defied by Emma Goldman". The New York Times. October 28, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E4DC1138EE32A2575BC2A9669D946896D6CF. Retrieved February 4, 2010. </li>
↑ "Will Fight Deportation". The New York Times. December 1, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E7D7153BEE32A25752C0A9649D946896D6CF. Retrieved February 4, 2010. </li>
↑ Post, pp. 13â€“14.
↑ McCormick, pp. 158â€“163.
↑ "'Ark' with 300 Reds Sails Early Today for Unnamed Port". The New York Times. December 21, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01EEDC1E3CEE3ABC4951DFB4678382609EDE. Retrieved February 1, 2010. </li>
↑ Post, p. 4.
↑ Murray, 208-9
↑ "Soviet Ark Lands its Reds in Finland". The New York Times. January 18, 1920. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E4DA123FE432A2575BC1A9679C946195D6CF. Retrieved February 1, 2010. </li>
↑ Murray, pp. 207â€“208.
↑ Post, pp. 1â€“11.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 243.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 17.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 150.
↑ Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 235.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 236â€“237.
↑ Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 237.
↑ Wexler, Exile, pp. 47â€“49.
↑ Wexler, Exile, pp. 56â€“58.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 161â€“162.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 96.
↑ Falk, Love, pp. 209â€“210.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 111.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 115.
↑ Quoted in Chalberg, p. 164.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 122.
↑ Mary V. Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim, Houghton Mifflin, 2004, pp.61â€“62
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 135.
↑ Chalberg, pp. 165â€“166.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 154.
↑ Wexler, Exile, pp. 158â€“164.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 298â€“300.
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 301â€“302.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, p. 232.
↑ Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 303.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 205.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 209.
↑ Wexler, Exile, pp. 209â€“210.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 216.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 222.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, p. 226.
↑ Both quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 232.
↑ ^146.0 ^146.1 Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 236.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 240.
↑ Wexler, pp. 240â€“241.
↑ "Emma Goldman, Anarchist, Dead. Internationally Known Figure, Deported From The U.S., Is Stricken In Toronto. Disillusioned By Soviets Opposed Lenin And Trotsky As Betrayers Of Socialism Through Despotism.". The New York Times. May 14, 1940. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F1EFB3A54107A93C6A8178ED85F448485F9&scp=1&st=p. Retrieved April 20, 2008. "Emma Goldman, internationally known anarchist, died early today at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 70 years old." </li>
↑ Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 312â€“313.
↑ Goldman, Living, 194.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 62.
↑ ^153.0 ^153.1 Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 92.
↑ Goldman, Living, p. 56.
↑ ^155.0 ^155.1 Goldman, Anarchism, p. 54.
↑ ^156.0 ^156.1 Goldman, Living, p. 88.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 79.
↑ Goldman, Disillusionment, pp. 260â€“261.
↑ Wexler, Intimate, p. 91.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 167.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 205.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 198.
↑ Marshall, p. 409.
↑ Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 94.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 224.
↑ See generally Haaland; Goldman, "The Traffic in Women"; Goldman, "On Love".
↑ See generally Living My Life.
↑ See Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004), pp. 139â€“152 (discussing persecution of Goldman and other anti-war activists, and the passage of the Espionage Act of 1917).
↑ Falk, Making Speech Free.
↑ David M. Rabban, Free Speech In Its Forgotten Years (1997).
↑ Christopher M. Finan, From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America, p. 18.
↑ Goldman, Anarchism, p. 120.
↑ Katz, Jonathan Ned (1992). Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., p. 376â€“380, New York City: Penguin Books.
↑ ^174.0 ^174.1 Goldman, Emma (1923). "Offener Brief an den Herausgeber der JahrbÃ¼cher Ã¼ber Louise Michel" with a preface by Magnus Hirschfeld. Jahrbuch fÃ¼r sexuelle Zwischenstufen 23: 70. Translated from German by James Steakley. Goldman's original letter in English is not known to be extant.
↑ Emma, (1916). "The Philosophy of Atheism," Mother Earth, , .
↑ Goldman, "The Failure of Christianity". Mother Earth, April 1913.
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 41.
↑ Paul Avrich (2006). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, AK Press.
↑ Marshall, pp. 396â€“401.
↑ Shulman, Alix Kates. "Dances with Feminists". Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, #3. December 1991. Available at the Emma Goldman Papers. Retrieved on December 13, 2007.
↑ ^181.0 ^181.1 Wexler, Exile, p. 1.
↑ Marshall, pp. 408â€“409.
↑ Howard Zinn (2002). Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist, South End Press.
↑ Martin Duberman (1991). Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life, St. Martin's Press.
↑ Lynn Rogoff at doollee.com: The Playwrights Database
↑ Wexler, Exile, p. 249.
↑ Mannin, Ethel (1941). Red Rose: A Novel Based on the Life of Emma Goldman ("Red Emma"), Jarrolds.
↑ "About Us". The Emma Goldman Clinic. 2007. Retrieved on December 15, 2007.
↑ Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse: Who is Red Emma?. Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse. URL accessed on February 24, 2008.

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Goldman, Emma. Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution. ed. David Porter. New Paltz, NY: Commonground Press, 1983. ISBN 0-9610348-2-3.
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McCormick, Charles H. Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917â€“1921. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
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Murray, Robert K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919â€“1920. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. ISBN 0313226733
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External links[edit]

Works by Emma Goldman at Project Gutenberg
Emma Goldman Papers Project at UC Berkeley
Emma Goldman entry at the Anarchy Archives
Anarchism and Other Essays from American Studies at the University of Virginia
My Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman
Extracts from My Further Disillusionment with Russia (1924)
Emma Goldman Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
Emma Goldman "Women of Valor" exhibit at the Jewish Women's Archive
"Emma Goldman". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive.

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[UIC-1] 1.0 ^1.1 University of Illinois at Chicago Biography of Emma Goldman. UIC Library Emma Goldman Collection. Retrieved on December 13, 2008.

[Voices-2] Streitmatter, Rodger (2001). Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America, p. 122â€“134, New York: Columbia University Press.

[3] Goldman, Living, p. 24.

[EGLiv447-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Goldman, Living, p. 447.

[5] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 5.

[6] The order of birth is unclear; Wexler (in Intimate, p. 13) notes that although Goldman writes of herself as her mother's fourth child, her brother Louis (who died at the age of six) was probably born after her.

[7] Chalberg, p. 13.

[8] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 12.

[9] Goldman, Living, p. 11.

[10] Wexler, Intimate, p. 12.

[11] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 13â€“14.

[12] Goldman, Living, p. 20.

[13] Goldman, Living, p. 28.

[14] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 6â€“7.

[15] Chalberg, p. 15.

[EGLiv12-16] Goldman, Living, p. 12.

[17] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 23â€“26.

[JC16-18] 18.0 ^18.1 Chalberg, p. 16.

[19] Goldman, Living, p. 22.

[20] Falk, Love, p. 14.

[EGLiv23-21] 21.0 ^21.1 Goldman, Living, p. 23.

[22] Wexler, Intimate, p. 27.

[23] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 30â€“31.

[24] Falk, Love, pp. 15â€“16.

[25] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 15â€“17.

[26] Chalberg, p. 27.

[27] Chalberg, pp. 27â€“28.

[28] Goldman, Living, p. 40.

[29] Goldman, Living, p. 51.

[Goldman-Living-52-30] 30.0 ^30.1 Goldman, Living, p. 52.

[31] Goldman, Living, p. 54.

[32] Wexler, Intimate, p. 53.

[33] Wexler, Intimate, p. 57.

[34] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 57â€“58.

[35] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 61â€“62.

[36] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 63.

[37] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 63â€“65.

[EGLiv91-38] 38.0 ^38.1 Goldman, Living, p. 91.

[39] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 45.

[40] Chalberg, pp. 42â€“43; Falk, Love, p. 25; Wexler, Intimate, p. 65.

[41] "Alexander Berkman, the Anarchist, to Be Deported; Case of Emma Goldman Now Up for Decision". The New York Times. November 26, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04EED71031E03ABC4E51DFB7678382609EDE&scp=2&sq=Alexander+Berkman+convicted+murder&st=p. </li>

[42] Goldman, Living, p. 106.

[43] Wexler, Intimate, p. 65.

[44] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 65â€“66.

[45] Goldman, Living, p. 105.

[46] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 66.

[47] "Panic of 1893". Ohio History Central. Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Retrieved on December 18, 2007.

[48] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 46.

[EGLiv123-49] Goldman, Living, p. 123.

[50] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 58â€“59.

[51] Wexler, Intimate, p. 76.

[52] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 57.

[53] Nellie Bly, "Nelly Bly Again: She Interviews Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists", New York World, September 17, 1893.

[54] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 60.

[55] Wexler, Intimate, p. 78.

[56] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 78â€“79.

[57] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 84â€“89.

[58] Chalberg, pp. 65â€“66.

[59] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 68.

[60] Chalberg, p. 73.

[61] Wexler, Intimate, p. 104.

[62] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 103â€“104.

[63] Goldman, Living, p. 300.

[64] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 76.

[65] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 74.

[Cha78-66] 66.0 ^66.1 Chalberg, p. 78.

[67] Falk, The American Years, p. 461.

[68] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 106â€“112.

[69] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 81.

[70] Goldman, Living, p. 318.

[71] Wexler, Intimate, p. 115.

[72] Falk, Making Speech Free, p. 557.

[73] Chalberg, pp. 84â€“87.

[74] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 87.

[75] Goldman, Living, p. 377.

[76] Chalberg, pp. 88â€“91.

[77] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 121â€“130.

[78] Goldman, Living, p. 384.

[79] Chalberg, p. 94.

[80] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 97â€“98.

[81] Quoted in Goldman, Living, p. 391.

[82] Drinnon, Rebel, p. 98.

[83] Chalberg, p. 97.

[84] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 135â€“137.

[85] Wexler, Intimate, p. 166.

[86] Wexler, Intimate, p. 168.

[87] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 140â€“147.

[EGAn49-88] 88.0 ^88.1 Goldman, Anarchism, p. 49.

[89] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 210.

[90] Wexler, Intimate, pp. 211â€“215.

[91] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 186â€“187; Wexler, Intimate, p. 230.

[92] Berkman, p. 155.

[93] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 186â€“187.

[94] Chalberg, p. 129.

[nyt1-95] 95.0 ^95.1 "Emma Goldman and A. Berkman Behind the Bars". The New York Times. June 16, 1917. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EFDA123BE03ABC4E52DFB066838C609EDE. Retrieved December 17, 2007. </li>

[96] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 232.

[97] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 134.

[98] Francis H., (1964). "The Trials of Emma Goldman, Anarchist," The Review of Politics, 26, 444â€“445.

[99] Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917 (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917)

[100] Wexler, Intimate, p. 235â€“244.

[101] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 141.

[102] Chalberg, pp. 141â€“142.

[103] Wexler, Intimate, p. 253â€“263.

[104] Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 215.

[105] "Deportation Defied by Emma Goldman". The New York Times. October 28, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E4DC1138EE32A2575BC2A9669D946896D6CF. Retrieved February 4, 2010. </li>

[106] "Will Fight Deportation". The New York Times. December 1, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E7D7153BEE32A25752C0A9649D946896D6CF. Retrieved February 4, 2010. </li>

[107] Post, pp. 13â€“14.

[108] McCormick, pp. 158â€“163.

[109] "'Ark' with 300 Reds Sails Early Today for Unnamed Port". The New York Times. December 21, 1919. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01EEDC1E3CEE3ABC4951DFB4678382609EDE. Retrieved February 1, 2010. </li>

[110] Post, p. 4.

[111] Murray, 208-9

[112] "Soviet Ark Lands its Reds in Finland". The New York Times. January 18, 1920. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E4DA123FE432A2575BC1A9679C946195D6CF. Retrieved February 1, 2010. </li>

[113] Murray, pp. 207â€“208.

[114] Post, pp. 1â€“11.

[115] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 243.

[116] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 17.

[117] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 150.

[118] Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 235.

[119] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 236â€“237.

[120] Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 237.

[121] Wexler, Exile, pp. 47â€“49.

[122] Wexler, Exile, pp. 56â€“58.

[123] Chalberg, pp. 161â€“162.

[124] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 96.

[125] Falk, Love, pp. 209â€“210.

[126] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 111.

[127] Wexler, Exile, p. 115.

[128] Quoted in Chalberg, p. 164.

[129] Wexler, Exile, p. 122.

[130] Mary V. Dearborn, Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim, Houghton Mifflin, 2004, pp.61â€“62

[131] Wexler, Exile, p. 135.

[132] Chalberg, pp. 165â€“166.

[133] Wexler, Exile, p. 154.

[134] Wexler, Exile, pp. 158â€“164.

[135] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 298â€“300.

[136] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 301â€“302.

[137] Quoted in Wexler, p. 232.

[138] Quoted in Drinnon, Rebel, p. 303.

[139] Wexler, Exile, p. 205.

[140] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 209.

[141] Wexler, Exile, pp. 209â€“210.

[142] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 216.

[143] Wexler, Exile, p. 222.

[144] Quoted in Wexler, p. 226.

[145] Both quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 232.

[WexEx236-146] 146.0 ^146.1 Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 236.

[147] Quoted in Wexler, Exile, p. 240.

[148] Wexler, pp. 240â€“241.

[149] "Emma Goldman, Anarchist, Dead. Internationally Known Figure, Deported From The U.S., Is Stricken In Toronto. Disillusioned By Soviets Opposed Lenin And Trotsky As Betrayers Of Socialism Through Despotism.". The New York Times. May 14, 1940. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F1EFB3A54107A93C6A8178ED85F448485F9&scp=1&st=p. Retrieved April 20, 2008. "Emma Goldman, internationally known anarchist, died early today at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 70 years old." </li>

[150] Drinnon, Rebel, pp. 312â€“313.

[151] Goldman, Living, 194.

[152] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 62.

[WexInt92-153] 153.0 ^153.1 Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 92.

[154] Goldman, Living, p. 56.

[EGAnar54-155] 155.0 ^155.1 Goldman, Anarchism, p. 54.

[EGLiv88-156] 156.0 ^156.1 Goldman, Living, p. 88.

[157] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 79.

[158] Goldman, Disillusionment, pp. 260â€“261.

[WexInt91-159] Wexler, Intimate, p. 91.

[160] Wexler, Exile, p. 167.

[161] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 205.

[162] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 198.

[163] Marshall, p. 409.

[164] Quoted in Wexler, Intimate, p. 94.

[165] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 224.

[166] See generally Haaland; Goldman, "The Traffic in Women"; Goldman, "On Love".

[Goldman-Living-167] See generally Living My Life.

[Stone-2004-168] See Geoffrey R. Stone, Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism (2004), pp. 139â€“152 (discussing persecution of Goldman and other anti-war activists, and the passage of the Espionage Act of 1917).

[Falk-Volume2-169] Falk, Making Speech Free.

[Rabban-1997-170] David M. Rabban, Free Speech In Its Forgotten Years (1997).

[Finan-2007-171] Christopher M. Finan, From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America, p. 18.

[172] Goldman, Anarchism, p. 120.

[173] Katz, Jonathan Ned (1992). Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A., p. 376â€“380, New York City: Penguin Books.

[hirschfeld-174] 174.0 ^174.1 Goldman, Emma (1923). "Offener Brief an den Herausgeber der JahrbÃ¼cher Ã¼ber Louise Michel" with a preface by Magnus Hirschfeld. Jahrbuch fÃ¼r sexuelle Zwischenstufen 23: 70. Translated from German by James Steakley. Goldman's original letter in English is not known to be extant.

[175] Emma, (1916). "The Philosophy of Atheism," Mother Earth, , .

[176] Goldman, "The Failure of Christianity". Mother Earth, April 1913.

[177] Wexler, Exile, p. 41.

[178] Paul Avrich (2006). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America, AK Press.

[179] Marshall, pp. 396â€“401.

[180] Shulman, Alix Kates. "Dances with Feminists". Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, #3. December 1991. Available at the Emma Goldman Papers. Retrieved on December 13, 2007.

[wexler1-181] 181.0 ^181.1 Wexler, Exile, p. 1.

[182] Marshall, pp. 408â€“409.

[183] Howard Zinn (2002). Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist, South End Press.

[184] Martin Duberman (1991). Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life, St. Martin's Press.

[185] Lynn Rogoff at doollee.com: The Playwrights Database

[186] Wexler, Exile, p. 249.

[187] Mannin, Ethel (1941). Red Rose: A Novel Based on the Life of Emma Goldman ("Red Emma"), Jarrolds.

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-'''Emma Goldman''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] - [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchist]] known for her radical [[libertarian socialism|libertarian socialist]] and [[feminist]] writings and speeches. She immigrated to the [[United States]] at sixteen and was later deported to [[Russia]], where she witnessed some events of the [[Russian Revolution]]. She also spent a number of years in [[Western Europe]], where she wrote her [[autobiography]] and other works.
+{{chomskytorrent|1118|Emma Goldman (most of her works)}}
+{{chomskytorrent|342|PBS - American Experience: Emma Goldman}}
+[[Image:Emma Goldman.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Emma Goldman]]
+'''Emma Goldman''' (27 June 1869 â€“ 14 May 1940) was an [[anarchism|anarchist]] known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of [[anarchist political philosophy]] [[Wikipedia:anarchist political philosophy|(WP)]] in [[North America]] and [[Europe]] in the first half of the twentieth century.
-Goldman was born to a [[Jew]]ish family in [[Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]], where her family ran a small inn. In the period of political repression after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with her family to [[St Petersburg]] at the age of thirteen. There--due to economic hardship--she was forced to leave school and work in a factory. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Chernychevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
+She was born in the province of [[Wikipedia:Kaunas|Kaunas]], [[Lithuania]] (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]), to an [[Orthodox Jewish]] [[Wikipedia:Orthodox Jewish|(WP)]] familyn [[Kovno]] in the [[Russian Empire]]. Although she attended schools in [[KÃ¶nigsberg]], her father refused to allow her further education when the family moved to [[St. Petersburg]], an example of the confrontations that marked their relationship. Still, she read voraciously and educated herself about the politics of her time. Goldman emigrated with her sister Helena to [[Rochester, New York]] in the [[United States]] in 1885, at the age of sixteen, and lived in [[New York City]], where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.<ref name=UIC>University of Illinois at Chicago [http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/EGoldmanb.html Biography of Emma Goldman]. UIC Library Emma Goldman Collection. Retrieved on December 13, 2008.</ref>  Married briefly in 1887, she divorced her husband quickly thereafter and moved to [[New York City]]. Attracted to anarchism after the [[Haymarket affair]], Goldman was trained by [[Johann Most]] in public speaking. She became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands.<ref name = UIC/> She and anarchist writer [[Alexander Berkman]], her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate [[Henry Clay Frick]] as an act of [[propaganda of the deed]]. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about [[birth control]]. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal ''[[Wikipedia:Mother Earth (magazine)|Mother Earth]]''.
-==Life and Activism in America==
+In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated [[Conscription in the United States|draft]]. After their release from prison, they were arrestedâ€”along with hundreds of othersâ€”and deported to [[Russia]]. Initially supportive of that country's [[Bolshevik]] revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, ''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]''. While living in [[England]], [[Canada]], and [[France]], she wrote an autobiography called ''[[Living My Life]]''. After the outbreak of the [[Spanish Civil War]], she traveled to [[Spain]] to support the [[Spanish Revolution|anarchist revolution]] there. She died in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940, aged 70.
-She fled to America with a half-sister after she refused to allow her father to [[marriage|marry]] her off at fifteen. The hanging of four anarchists after the [[Haymarket Riot]] drew the young Emma Goldman to the anarchist movement, and at twenty she decided to become a [[revolution]]ary. By this time she had been married for ten months to a Russian immigrant. The marriage didn't work out, so she left him and moved to [[New York City|New York]]. They remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
-In New York City she met and lived with [[Alexander Berkman]], along with whom she was a major leader of the anarchist movement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him as) was jailed for several years.
+During her life, Goldman was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers, and derided by critics as an advocate of politically motivated murder and violent revolution.<ref name="Voices">{{cite book|last=Streitmatter|first=Rodger|title=Voices of Revolution: The Dissident Press in America|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|year =2001|location=New York|pages=122â€“134|isbn=0-231-12249-7}}</ref> Her writing and lectures spanned a wide variety of issues, including prisons, [[atheism]], [[freedom of speech]], [[militarism]] [[Wikipedia:militarism|(WP)]], [[capitalism]], [[marriage]], [[free love]], and [[homosexuality]]. Although she distanced herself from [[first-wave feminism]] and its efforts toward [[women's suffrage]], she developed new ways of incorporating gender politics into anarchism. After decades of obscurity, Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s, when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life.
+[[Image:Emma Goldman seated.jpg|thumb|220px|right|Emma Goldman, circa 1911]]
-She was [[prison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployment|unemployed]] [[worker]]s that they should ''"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, take bread."'' (The statement is a summary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the lecture ''[[In Defense of Emma Goldman]]'' as a response to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing that later became her main source of employment.
+==Family==
+Emma Goldman's [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jewish]] family lived in the [[Lithuania]]n city of [[Kaunas]] (called Kovno at the time, part of the [[Russian Empire]]).<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 24.</ref> Goldman's mother Taube Bienowitch had been married before, to a man with whom she had two daughtersâ€”Helena in 1860 and Lena in 1862. When her first husband died of [[tuberculosis]], Taube was devastated. Goldman later wrote: "Whatever love she had had died with the young man to whom she had been married at the age of fifteen."<ref name="EGLiv447">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 447.</ref>[[Image:LocationLithuaniaInEurope.png|thumb|left|Emma Goldman was born in [[Kaunas]], part of modern-day [[Lithuania]]]]
-She was arrested, with nine others, on [[September 10]], [[1901]], on charges of conspiracy to assassinate [[William McKinley|President McKinley]].  A follower of hers, [[Leon Czolgosz]] had shot the President several days before.  She met Czolgosz only once, briefly, several weeks before.  She said about him, "Am I accountable because some crackbrained person put a wrong construction on my words?" Despite strong feelings against her among the public, she and the others were acquitted.
+Taube's second [[arranged marriage|marriage was arranged]] by her family and, as Goldman puts it, "mismated from the first".<ref name="EGLiv447"/> Her second husband, Abraham Goldman, invested Taube's inheritance in a business that quickly failed. The ensuing hardship combined with the emotional distance of husband and wife to make the household a tense place for the children. When Taube became pregnant, Abraham hoped desperately for a son; a daughter, he believed, would serve as one more sign of failure.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 5.</ref> They eventually had three sons, but their first child was Emma.<ref>The order of birth is unclear; Wexler (in ''Intimate'', p. 13) notes that although Goldman writes of herself as her mother's fourth child, her brother Louis (who died at the age of six) was probably born after her.</ref>
-On [[February 11]], [[1916]], she was [[arrest]]ed and imprisoned again for her distribution of [[birth control]] [[literature]].
+Emma Goldman was born on June 27, 1869. Her father used violence to punish his children, beating them when they disobeyed him. He used a whip only on Emma, the most rebellious of them.<ref>Chalberg, p. 13.</ref> Her mother provided scarce comfort, calling only rarely on Abraham to tone down his beatings.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 12.</ref> Goldman later speculated that her father's furious temper was at least partly a result of sexual frustration.<ref name="EGLiv447"/>
-For several years, she expected to be arrested whenever she gave a speech, and therefore always carried a book when she got up on stage.
+Goldman's relationships with her elder half-sisters, Helena and Lena, were a study in contrasts. Helena, the oldest, provided the comfort they lacked from their mother; she filled Goldman's childhood with "whatever joy it had".<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 11.</ref> Lena, however, was distant and uncharitable.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 12.</ref> The three sisters were joined by brothers Louis (who died at the age of six), Herman (born in 1872), and Moishe (born in 1879).<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 13â€“14.</ref>
-Her third imprisonment was in [[1917]], this time for conspiring to obstruct the [[conscription|draft]]: Berkman and Goldman were both involved in setting up [[No Conscription leagues]] and organising rallies against [[World War I]].(''illustration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her deportation hearing, [[J. Edgar Hoover]], directing the hearing, called her ''"one of the most dangerous women in America."''
+==Adolescence==
+When Emma was a young girl, the Goldman family moved to the village of [[PapilÄ—]], where her father ran an inn. While her sisters worked, she became friends with a servant named Petrushka, who excited her "first erotic sensations".<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 20.</ref> Later in PapilÄ— she witnessed a peasant being whipped with a [[knout]] in the street. This event traumatized her and contributed to her lifelong distaste for violent authority.<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 28.</ref>
-==Deportation and Disillusionment in Russia==
+At the age of seven, Goldman moved with her family to the Prussian city of [[KÃ¶nigsberg]] (then part of the German Empire), and she enrolled in a [[Realschule]]. One teacher punished disobedient studentsâ€”targeting Goldman in particularâ€”by beating their hands with a ruler. Another teacher tried to molest his female students and was fired when Goldman fought back. She found a sympathetic mentor in her German teacher, who loaned her books and even took her to an opera. A passionate student, Goldman passed the exam for admission into a [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]], but her religion teacher refused to provide a certificate of good behavior and she was unable to attend.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 6â€“7.</ref>[[Image:Chernychevsky.jpg|thumb|right|upright|[[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Nikolai Chernyshevsky's]] novel ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What Is to Be Done?]]'' was a powerful lifelong inspiration for Goldman]]
-This deportation meant that Goldman, with Berkman, was able to witness the [[Russian Revolution]] first hand. On her arrival in Russia, she was prepared to support the [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]]s despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at the [[First International]]. But seeing the [[political repression]], [[bureaucracy]] and [[forced labour]] in Russia led Goldman to write ''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]'' and ''[[My Further Disillusionment in Russia]]''. She was also devastated by the massive destruction and death resulting from the [[Russian Civil War]].  Goldman was friends with fellow Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed (journalist)|John Reed]] and [[Louise Bryant]], both of whom were also in Russia at this time (during a period when it was impossible to leave the country); they may even have shared an apartment (see also the film [[Reds]]).
-Her experiences in Russia helped change her ideas on the use of [[violence]]: after the [[Red Army]] was used against [[Strike action|strike]]rs, Goldman began rejecting violence except in [[self-defense]].
+The family moved to the Russian city of [[Saint Petersburg]], where her father opened one unsuccessful store after another. Their poverty forced the children to work, and Goldman took an assortment of jobs including one in a [[corset]] shop. <ref>Chalberg, p. 15.</ref> As a teenager Goldman begged her father to allow her to return to school, but instead he threw her French book into the fire and shouted: "Girls do not have to learn much! All a Jewish daughter needs to know is how to prepare [[gefilte fish]], cut noodles fine, and give the man plenty of children."<ref name="EGLiv12">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 12.</ref>
-In 1931 Goldman published her autobiography, ''Living My Life'', now available on-line (see link to Anarchist Archives).
+Goldman pursued an independent education [[autodidact|on her own]], however, and soon began to study the political turmoil around her, particularly the [[Nihilist movement|Nihilists]] responsible for assassinating [[Alexander II of Russia]]. The ensuing turmoil intrigued Goldman, even though she did not fully understand it at the time. When she read [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s novel, ''[[What Is to Be Done? (novel)|What Is to Be Done?]]'' (1863), she found a role model in the protagonist Vera, who adopts a Nihilist philosophy and escapes her repressive family to live freely and organize a sewing [[cooperative]]. The book enthralled Goldman and remained a source of inspiration throughout her life.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 23â€“26.</ref>
-==Spanish Revolution==
+Her father, meanwhile, continued to insist on a domestic future for her, and he tried to arrange for her to be married at the age of fifteen. They fought about the issue constantly; he complained that she was becoming a "loose" woman, and she insisted that she would marry for love alone.<ref name="JC16">Chalberg, p. 16.</ref> At the corset shop, she was forced to fend off unwelcome advances from Russian officers and other men. One persistent suitor took her into a hotel room and committed what Goldman called "violent contact";<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 22.</ref> two biographers call it rape.<ref name="JC16"/><ref>Falk, ''Love'', p. 14.</ref> She was stunned by the experience, overcome by "shock at the discovery that the contact between man and woman could be so brutal and painful."<ref name="EGLiv23">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 23.</ref> Goldman felt that the encounter forever soured her interactions with men.<ref name="EGLiv23"/>
-In [[1936]], Goldman went to [[Spain]], in the midst of the [[Spanish Civil War]], to support the [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]]. During this time she wrote an obituary for the prominent [[Spanish anarchist]] [[Buenaventura Durruti]] in a piece of vibrant [[prose]] entitled ''[[Durruti is Dead, Yet Living]]'', which echoes [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s [[Adonais (poem)|Adonais]].
-==Death and burial==
+==Rochester, New York==
-Emma Goldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on [[May 14]], [[1940]]. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] allowed her body to be brought back to the United States, and she was buried in [[German Waldheim Cemetery|German Waldheim Cemetery]] (now part of Forest Home Cemetery) in [[Forest Park, Illinois|Forest Park]], [[Illinois]], a suburb of [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], close to where the [[Haymarket Riot]] martyrs are interred [http://www.graveyards.com/IL/Cook/foresthome/ne-goldman.html]. Her tombstone reads "Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to Liberty".
+In 1885 Helena made plans to move to [[New York]] to join her sister Lena and her husband.  Goldman wanted to join her sister, but their father refused to allow it. Despite Helena's offer to pay for the trip, Abraham turned a deaf ear to their pleas.  Desperate, Goldman threatened to throw herself into the [[Neva River]] if she could not go.  He finally agreed, and on December 29, 1885, Helena and Emma arrived at New York's [[Castle Garden]].<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 27.</ref> They moved into the [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] home Lena had made with her husband Samuel. Fleeing the rising [[antisemitism]] of Saint Petersburg, their parents and brothers joined them a year later. Goldman began working as a [[seamstress]], sewing overcoats for more than ten hours a day, earning two and a half dollars a week. She asked for a raise and was denied; she quit and took work at a smaller shop nearby.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 30â€“31.</ref>
-== Sources ==
+At her new job, Goldman met a fellow worker named Jacob Kershner, who shared her love for books, dancing, and traveling, as well as her frustration with the monotony of factory work. After four months they married in February 1887.<ref>Falk, ''Love'', pp. 15â€“16.</ref> Once he moved in with Goldman's family, however, their relationship faltered.  On their wedding night she discovered that he was impotent; they became emotionally and physically distant.  Before long he became jealous and suspicious. She, meanwhile, was becoming more engaged with the political turmoil around herâ€”particularly the fallout of the 1886 [[Haymarket affair]] in Chicago and the [[anti-authoritarian]] political philosophy of [[anarchism]]. Less than a year after the wedding, they were divorced; he begged her to return and threatened to poison himself if she did not. They reunited, but after three months she left once again. Her parents considered her behavior "loose" and refused to allow Goldman into their home.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 15â€“17.</ref>  Carrying her sewing machine in one hand and a bag with five dollars in the other, she left Rochester and headed southeast to [[New York City]].<ref>Chalberg, p. 27.</ref>
-''This article incorporates material from [[Wikipedia:Emma Goldman]] (with versions as of 2004-12-07 and 2005-11-15), used under the provisions of the [[Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License]].''
-== External links ==
+==Most and Berkman==
+On her first day in the city, Goldman met two men who would forever change her life. At Sachs's CafÃ©, a gathering place for radicals, she was introduced to [[Alexander Berkman]], an anarchist who invited her to a public speech that evening.  They went to hear [[Johann Most]], editor of a radical publication called ''[[Die Freiheit]]'' and an advocate of "[[propaganda of the deed]]"â€”the use of violence to instigate change.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 27â€“28.</ref> She was impressed by his fiery oration, and he took her under his wing, training her in methods of public speaking. He encouraged her vigorously, telling her that she was "to take my place when I am gone."<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 40.</ref>  One of her first public talks in support of "the Cause" was in Rochester. After convincing Helena not to tell their parents of her speech, Goldman found her mind a blank once on stage.  Suddenly,<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 51.</ref>{{quote|something strange happened. In a flash I saw itâ€”every incident of my three years in Rochester: the Garson factory, its drudgery and humiliation, the failure of my marriage, the Chicago crime.... I began to speak. Words I had never heard myself utter before came pouring forth, faster and faster. They came with passionate intensity.... The audience had vanished, the hall itself had disappeared; I was conscious only of my own words, of my ecstatic song.}}
-* [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/Goldmanarchive.html Emma Goldman in the Anarchist Archives]
+[[Image:Goldmanberkman.jpeg|thumb|right|Goldman enjoyed a decades-long relationship with her lover [[Alexander Berkman]]]]Enchanted by the experience, she refined her public persona during subsequent engagements.  Quickly, however, she found herself arguing with Most over her independence.  After a momentous speech in Cleveland, she felt as though she had become "a parrot repeating Most's views"<ref name="Goldman-Living-52">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 52.</ref> and resolved to express herself on the stage.  Upon her return in New York, Most became furious and told her: "Who is not with me is against me!" <ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 54.</ref>  She left ''Die Freiheit'' and joined with another publication, ''[[Die Autonomie]]''.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 53.</ref>
-* [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ The Emma Goldman Papers (DL SunSITE)]
-* [ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext00/nrcsm10.txt ''Anarchism and Other Essays'']
-* [http://www.BlackCrayon.com/people/goldman/ BlackCrayon.com: People: Emma Goldman]
-* [http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm Emma Goldman Page at the Anarchist Encyclopedia]
-* [http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/living/livingtoc.html Living my Life]
-* [http://www.iisg.nl/collections/goldman/index.html Portraits of Emma Goldman]
-[[Category:Anarchists|Goldman, Emma]]
+Meanwhile, she had begun a friendship with Berkman, whom she affectionately called Sasha. Before long they became lovers and moved into a communal apartment with his cousin Modest "Fedya" Stein and Goldman's friend, Helen Minkin, in rural [[Woodstock, Illinois]].<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 57.</ref>  Although their relationship had numerous difficulties, Goldman and Berkman would share a close bond for decades, united by their anarchist principles and commitment to personal equality.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 57â€“58.</ref>
-[[Category:Feminists|Goldman, Emma]]
-[[Category:LGBT rights activists|Goldman, Emma]]
+==Homestead plot==
+{{further|[[Homestead Strike]]}}
+One of the first political moments that brought Berkman and Goldman together was the [[Homestead Strike]]. In June 1892, a steel plant in [[Homestead, Pennsylvania]] owned by [[Andrew Carnegie]] became the focus of national attention when talks between the [[Carnegie Steel Company]] and the [[Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers]] (AA) broke down. The factory's manager was [[Henry Clay Frick]], a fierce opponent of the union. When a final round of talks failed at the end of June, management closed the plant and locked out the workers, who immediately went on strike. [[Strikebreaker]]s were brought in and the company hired [[Pinkerton National Detective Agency|Pinkerton guards]] to protect them. On July 6 a fight broke out between three hundred Pinkerton guards and a crowd of armed union workers. During the twelve-hour gunfight, seven guards and nine strikers were killed.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 61â€“62.</ref>
+[[Image:Henry Clay Frick.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Goldman and Berkman believed that a retaliatory assassination of [[Carnegie Steel Company]] manager [[Henry Clay Frick]] (''pictured'') would "strike terror into the soul of his class" and "bring the teachings of Anarchism before the world".<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 63.</ref>]]When a majority of the nation's newspapers came out in support of the strikers, Goldman and Berkman resolved to assassinate Frick, an action they expected would inspire the workers to revolt against the [[Capitalism|capitalist]] system. Berkman chose to carry out the assassination, and ordered Goldman to stay behind in order to explain his motives after he went to jail. He would be in charge of the deed; she of the word.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 63â€“65.</ref> Berkman tried and failed to make a bomb, then set off for [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] to buy a gun and a suit of decent clothes. Goldman, meanwhile, decided to help fund the scheme through prostitution. Remembering the character of Sonya in [[Fyodor Dostoevsky|Fyodor Dostoevsky's]] novel ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' (1866), she mused: "She had become a prostitute in order to support her little brothers and sisters.... Sensitive Sonya could sell her body; why not I?"<ref name="EGLiv91">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 91.</ref> Once on the street, she caught the eye of a man who took her into a saloon, bought her a beer, gave her ten dollars, informed her she did not have "the knack", and told her to quit the business. She was "too astounded for speech".<ref name="EGLiv91"/> She wrote to Helena, claiming illness, and asked her for fifteen dollars.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 45.</ref>
+On July 23, Berkman gained access to Frick's office with a concealed handgun and shot Frick three times, then stabbed him in the leg. A group of workersâ€”far from joining in his ''attentat''â€”beat Berkman unconscious, and he was carried away by the police.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 42â€“43; Falk, ''Love'', p. 25; Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 65.</ref> Berkman was convicted of attempted murder<ref>{{cite news|title=Alexander Berkman, the Anarchist, to Be Deported; Case of Emma Goldman Now Up for Decision|work=The New York Times|date=November 26, 1919|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D04EED71031E03ABC4E51DFB7678382609EDE&scp=2&sq=Alexander+Berkman+convicted+murder&st=p}}</ref> and sentenced to twenty-two years in prison;<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 106.</ref> his absence from her life was very difficult for Goldman.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 65.</ref>  Convinced Goldman was involved in the plot, police raided her apartment andâ€”finding no evidenceâ€”pressured her landlord into evicting her. Worse, the ''attentat'' had failed to rouse the masses: workers and anarchists alike condemned Berkman's action. Johann Most, their former mentor, lashed out at Berkman and the assassination attempt. Furious at these attacks, Goldman brought a toy horsewhip to a public lecture and demanded, onstage, that Most explain his betrayal. He dismissed her, whereupon she struck him with the whip, broke it on her knee, and hurled the pieces at him.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 65â€“66.</ref><ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 105.</ref> She later regretted her assault, confiding to a friend: "At the age of twenty-three, one does not reason."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 66.</ref>
+=="Inciting to riot"==
+When the [[Panic of 1893]] struck in the following year, the United States suffered one of its worst economic crises ever.  By year's end, the unemployment rate was higher than twenty percent,<ref>[http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=538 "Panic of 1893"]. [http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/index.php Ohio History Central]. Ohio Historical Society, 2007. Retrieved on December 18, 2007.</ref> and "hunger demonstrations" sometimes gave way to riots. Goldman began speaking to crowds of frustrated men and women in New York. On August 21, she spoke to a crowd of nearly 3,000 people in [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], where she encouraged unemployed workers to take immediate action. Her exact words are unclear: undercover agents insist she ordered the crowd to "take everything&nbsp;...&nbsp;by force",<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 46.</ref> while Goldman later recounted this message: "Well then, demonstrate before the palaces of the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread."<ref name="EGLiv123">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 123.</ref> Later in court, Detective-Sergeant Charles Jacobs offered yet another version of her speech.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 58â€“59.</ref>
+[[Image:Emma Goldman surrounded by crowd.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Goldman (shown here in [[Union Square (New York City)|Union Square]], New York in 1916) urged unemployed workers to take [[direct action]] rather than depend on charity or government aid.]]
+A week later she was arrested in [[Philadelphia]] and returned to New York City for trial, charged with "inciting to riot".<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 76.</ref> During the train ride, Jacobs offered to drop the charges against her if she would inform on other radicals in the area. She responded by throwing a glass of ice water in his face.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 57.</ref>  As she awaited trial, Goldman was visited by [[Nellie Bly]], a reporter for the ''[[New York World]]''. She spent two hours talking to Goldman, and wrote a positive article about the woman she described as a "modern [[Joan of Arc]]".<ref>[[Nellie Bly]], [http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Samples/bly.html "Nelly Bly Again: She Interviews Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists"], ''[[New York World]]'', September 17, 1893.<!--The reporter's name was Nellie Bly, but the article's title spelled it Nelly Bly.--></ref>
+Despite this positive publicity, the jury was persuaded by Jacobs' testimony and scared by Goldman's politics. The assistant District Attorney questioned Goldman about her anarchism, as well as her atheism; the judge spoke of her as "a dangerous woman".<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 60.</ref> She was sentenced to one year in the [[Roosevelt Island|Blackwell's Island]] Penitentiary. Once inside she suffered an attack of [[rheumatism]] and was sent to the infirmary; there she befriended a visiting doctor and began studying medicine.  She also read dozens of books, including works by the American activist-writers [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] and [[Henry David Thoreau]]; novelist [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]; poet [[Walt Whitman]], and philosopher [[John Stuart Mill]].<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 78.</ref> When she was released after ten months, a raucous crowd of nearly three thousand people greeted her at the [[Bowery Theatre|Thalia Theater]] in New York City. She soon became swamped with requests for interviews and lectures.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 78â€“79.</ref>
+To make money, Goldman decided to pursue the medical work she had studied in prison. However, her preferred fields of specializationâ€”[[midwifery]] and [[massage]]â€”were not available to nursing students in the USA. Thus, she sailed to Europe, lecturing in London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. She met with renowned anarchists like [[Errico Malatesta]], [[Louise Michel]], and [[Peter Kropotkin]]. In [[Vienna]] she received two diplomas and put them immediately to use back in the US. Alternating between lectures and midwifery, she conducted the first cross-country tour by an anarchist speaker. In November 1899 she returned to Europe, where she met the anarchist [[Hippolyte Havel]], with whom she went to France and helped organize the International Anarchist Congress on the outskirts of [[Paris]].<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 84â€“89.</ref>
+==McKinley assassination==
+:''See [[Wikipedia:William McKinley assassination]]''
+On September 6, 1901, [[Leon Czolgosz]], an unemployed factory worker and registered Republican with a history of mental illness, shot US President [[William McKinley]] twice during a public speaking event in Buffalo, New York. McKinley was hit in the breastbone and stomach; eight days later, McKinley died. <ref>Chalberg, pp. 65â€“66.</ref> Czolgosz was arrested and interrogated around the clock. During interrogation he claimed to be an Anarchist and said he had been inspired to his action after attending a speech by Goldman. The authorities used this pretext to charge that she had planned the action. They tracked her to a residence in Chicago she shared with Havel and Abe and Mary Isaak, an anarchist couple.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 68.</ref><ref>Chalberg, p. 73.</ref> Goldman was arrested, along with [[Abe Isaak]], Havel, and ten other anarchists.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 104.</ref>
+[[Image:First photograph of Leon F. Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, in jail.jpg|thumb|left|[[Leon Czolgosz]] insisted that Goldman had not guided his plan to assassinate US President [[William McKinley]], but she was arrested and held for two weeks.]]
+Earlier, Czolgosz had tried but failed to become friends with Goldman and her companions. During a talk in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], Czolgosz had approached Goldman and asked her advice on which books he should read. In July 1901, he had appeared at the Isaak house, asking a series of unusual questions. They assumed he was an infiltrator, like a number of police agents sent to spy on radical groups. They had remained distant from him, and Abe Isaak sent a notice to associates warning of "another spy".<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 103â€“104.</ref>
+Although Czolgosz repeatedly denied Goldman's involvement, the police held her in close custody, subjecting her to what she called the "third degree".<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 300. </ref> She explained their distrust of him, and it was clear she had not had any significant contact with Czolgosz. No evidence was found linking Goldman to the attack, and she was eventually released after two weeks of detention. Before McKinley died, Goldman offered to provide nursing care, referring to him as "merely a human being".<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 76.</ref>  Czolgosz, despite considerable evidence of mental illness, was convicted of murder and executed.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 74.</ref>
+Throughout her detention and after her release, Goldman steadfastly refused to condemn Czolgosz's actions, standing virtually alone in doing so. Friends and supportersâ€”including Berkmanâ€”urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a "supersensitive being"<ref name="Cha78">Chalberg, p. 78.</ref> and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him.<ref name="Cha78"/> She was vilified in the press as the "high priestess of anarchy",<ref>Falk, ''The American Years'', p. 461.</ref> while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 106â€“112.</ref> In the wake of these events, [[socialism]] gained support over anarchism among US radicals. McKinley's successor, [[Theodore Roosevelt]], declared his intent to crack down "not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists".<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 81.</ref>
+==''Mother Earth'' and Berkman's release==
+{{main|Mother Earth (magazine)}}
+After Czolgosz's execution, Goldman withdrew from the world. Scorned by her fellow anarchists, vilified by the press, and separated from her love, she retreated into anonymity and nursing. "It was bitter and hard to face life anew," she wrote later.<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 318.</ref> Using the name E. G. Smith, she vanished from public life and took on a series of private nursing jobs.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 115.</ref>  When the [[US Congress]] passed the [[Anarchist Exclusion Act]], however, a new wave of activism rose to oppose it, carrying Goldman back into the movement. A coalition of people and organizations across the [[left-wing politics|left]] end of the political spectrum opposed the law on grounds that it violated [[freedom of speech]], and she had the nation's ear once again.
+When an English anarchist named [[John Turner (anarchist)|John Turner]] was arrested under the Anarchist Exclusion Act and threatened with deportation, Goldman joined forces with the Free Speech League to champion his cause.<ref>Falk, ''Making Speech Free'', p. 557.</ref> The league enlisted the aid of [[Clarence Darrow]] and [[Edgar Lee Masters]], who took Turner's case to the [[US Supreme Court]]. Although Turner and the League lost, Goldman considered it a victory of [[propaganda]].<ref>Chalberg, pp. 84â€“87.</ref> She had returned to anarchist activism, but it was taking its toll on her. "I never felt so weighed down," she wrote to Berkman. "I fear I am forever doomed to remain public property and to have my life worn out through the care for the lives of others."<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 87.</ref>[[Image:Mother Earth 1912.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Goldman's ''[[Mother Earth (magazine)|Mother Earth]]'' magazine became a home to radical activists and literary free thinkers around the US.]]
+In 1906 Goldman decided to start a publication of her own, "a place of expression for the young idealists in arts and letters".<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 377.</ref> ''[[Mother Earth (magazine)|Mother Earth]]'' was staffed by a cadre of radical activists, including Hippolyte Havel, [[Max Baginski]], and [[Leonard Abbott]]. In addition to publishing original works by its editors and anarchists around the world, ''Mother Earth'' reprinted selections from a variety of writers. These included the French philosopher [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]], Russian anarchist [[Peter Kropotkin]], German philosopher [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], and British writer [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. Goldman wrote frequently about anarchism, politics, labor issues, atheism, sexuality, and feminism.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 88â€“91.</ref><ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 121â€“130.</ref>
+On May 18 of the same year, Alexander Berkman was released from prison.  Carrying a bouquet of roses, she met him on the platform and found herself "seized by terror and pity"<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 384.</ref> as she beheld his gaunt, pale form.  Neither was able to speak; they returned to her home in silence.  For weeks he struggled to readjust to life on the outside; an abortive speaking tour ended in failure, and in Cleveland he purchased a revolver with the intent of killing himself.<ref>Chalberg, p. 94.</ref><ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 97â€“98.</ref>  He returned to New York, however, and learned that Goldman had been arrested with a group of activists meeting to reflect on Czolgosz. Invigorated anew by this violation of [[freedom of assembly]], he declared "My resurrection has come!"<ref>Quoted in Goldman, ''Living'', p. 391.</ref> and set about securing their release.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 98.</ref>
+Berkman took the helm of ''Mother Earth'' in 1907, while Goldman toured the country to raise funds to keep it functional. Editing the magazine was a revitalizing experience for Berkman; his relationship with Goldman faltered, however, and he had an affair with a fifteen-year-old anarchist named Becky Edelsohn.  Goldman was pained by his rejection of her, but considered it a consequence of his prison experience.<ref>Chalberg, p. 97.</ref>  Later that year she served as a delegate from the US to the [[International Anarchist Congress of Amsterdam]]. Anarchists and [[syndicalism|syndicalists]] from around the world gathered to sort out the tension between the two ideologies, but no decisive agreement was reached. Goldman returned to the US and continued speaking to large audiences.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 135â€“137.</ref>
+==Reitman, essays, and birth control==
+For the next ten years, Goldman traveled around the country nonstop, delivering lectures and agitating for anarchism. The coalitions formed in opposition to the Anarchist Exclusion Act had given her an appreciation for reaching out to those of other political persuasions. When the [[US Justice Department]] sent spies to observe, they reported the meetings as "packed".<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 166.</ref> Writers, journalists, artists, judges, and workers from across the spectrum spoke of her "magnetic power", her "convincing presence", her "force, eloquence, and fire".<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 168.</ref>
+In the spring of 1908 Goldman met and fell in love with [[Ben Reitman]], the so-called "Hobo doctor". Having grown up in Chicago's tenderloin district, Reitman spent several years as a drifter before attaining a medical degree from the [[University of Illinois College of Medicine|College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago]]. As a doctor, he attended to people suffering from poverty and illness, particularly [[venereal disease]]s. He and Goldman began an affair; they shared a commitment to [[free love]], but whereas Reitman took a variety of lovers, Goldman did not. She tried to reconcile her feelings of jealousy with a belief in freedom of the heart, but found it difficult.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 140â€“147.</ref>[[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Goldman joined [[Margaret Sanger]] in crusading for women's access to [[birth control]]; both women were arrested for violating the [[Comstock Law]].]]
+Two years later Goldman began feeling frustrated with lecture audiences. She yearned to "reach the few who really want to learn, rather than the many who come to be amused".<ref name="EGAn49">Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 49.</ref> Thus she collected a series of speeches and items she had written for ''Mother Earth'' and published a book called ''[[Anarchism and Other Essays]]''. Covering a wide variety of topics, Goldman tries to represent "the mental and soul struggles of twenty-one years".<ref name="EGAn49"/> In addition to a comprehensive look at anarchism and its criticisms, the book includes essays on patriotism, [[women's suffrage]], marriage, and prisons.
+When [[Margaret Sanger]], an advocate of access to [[contraception]], coined the term "birth control" and disseminated information about various methods in the June 1914 issue of her magazine ''The Woman Rebel'', she received aggressive support from Goldman. Sanger was arrested in August under the [[Comstock Law]], which prohibited the dissemination of "obscene, lewd, or lascivious articles"<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 210.</ref>â€”including information relating to birth control. Although they later split from Sanger over charges of insufficient support, Goldman and Reitman distributed copies of Sanger's pamphlet ''Family Limitation'' (along with a similar essay of Reitman's). In 1915 Goldman conducted a nationwide speaking tour in part to raise awareness about contraception options. Although the nation's attitude toward the topic seemed to be liberalizing, Goldman was arrested in February 1916 and charged with violation of the Comstock Law. Refusing to pay a $100 fine, she spent two weeks in a prison workhouse, which she saw as an "opportunity" to reconnect with those rejected by society.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', pp. 211â€“215.</ref>
+==World War I==
+Although US President [[Woodrow Wilson]] was re-elected in 1916 under the slogan "He kept us out of the war", at the start of his second term he decided that [[Germany|Germany's]] continued deployment of [[unrestricted submarine warfare]] was sufficient cause for the US to enter [[World War I]]. Shortly afterward, Congress passed the [[Selective Service Act of 1917]], which required all males aged 21â€“30 to register for military [[conscription]]. Goldman saw the decision as an exercise in [[militarism|militarist]] aggression, driven by capitalism. She declared in ''Mother Earth'' her intent to resist conscription, and to oppose US involvement in the war.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 186â€“187; Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 230.</ref>
+[[Image:Goldman.jpg|thumb|right|Goldman was imprisoned for two years after opposing [[conscription]] in the US during [[World War I]].]]
+To this end, she and Berkman organized the [[No conscription league|No Conscription League]] of New York, which proclaimed: "We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, antimilitarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments."<ref>Berkman, p. 155.</ref> The group became a vanguard for anti-draft activism, and chapters began to appear in other cities. When police began raiding the group's public events to find young men who had not registered for the draft, however, Goldman and others focused their efforts on spreading pamphlets and other written work.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 186â€“187.</ref> In the midst of the nation's patriotic fervor, many elements of the political left refused to support the League's efforts. The Women's Peace Party, for example, ceased its opposition to the war once the US entered it. The [[Socialist Party of America]] took an official stance against US involvement, but supported Wilson in most of his activities.<ref>Chalberg, p. 129.</ref>
+On June 15, 1917, Goldman and Berkman were arrested during a raid of their offices which yielded "a wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda" for the authorities.<ref name="nyt1">{{cite news|title=Emma Goldman and A. Berkman Behind the Bars|work=The New York Times|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D01EFDA123BE03ABC4E52DFB066838C609EDE|date=June 16, 1917|accessdate=December 17, 2007}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' reported that Goldman asked to change into a more appropriate outfit, and emerged in a gown of "royal purple".<ref name="nyt1"/><ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 232.</ref> The pair were charged with conspiracy to "induce persons not to register"<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 134.</ref> under the newly enacted [[Espionage Act of 1917|Espionage Act]],<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Trials of Emma Goldman, Anarchist|first=Francis H.|last=Shaw|journal=The Review of Politics|volume=26|issue=3|pages=444â€“445|year=1964|month=July|quote=Prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917 for obstructing the draft, Emma Goldman...}}</ref> and were held on US$25,000 [[bail]] each. Defending herself and Berkman during their trial, Goldman invoked the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]], asking how the government could claim to fight for democracy abroad while suppressing free speech at home:<ref>''Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917'' (New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917)</ref>
+<blockquote>We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?</blockquote>
+The jury saw it differently, and found them guilty; Judge [[Julius Marshuetz Mayer]] imposed the maximum sentence two years' imprisonment, a $10,000 fine each, and the possibility of [[deportation]] after their release from prison. As she was transported to Missouri State Penitentiary (now [[Jefferson City Correctional Center]]), Goldman wrote to a friend: "Two years imprisonment for having made an uncompromising stand for one's ideal. Why that is a small price."<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 235â€“244.</ref>
+In prison she was assigned once again to work as a seamstress, under the eye of a "miserable gutter-snipe of a twenty-one-year-old boy paid to get results".<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 141.</ref> She met the socialist [[Kate Richards O'Hare]], who had also been imprisoned under the Espionage Act. Although they differed on political strategyâ€”Kate O'Hare believed in voting to achieve state powerâ€”the two women came together to agitate for better conditions among prisoners.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 141â€“142.</ref> Goldman also met and became friends with [[Gabriella Segata Antolini]], an anarchist and follower of [[Luigi Galleani]]. Antolini had been arrested transporting a satchel filled with dynamite on a Chicago-bound train. She had refused to cooperate with authorities, and was sent to prison for fourteen months. Working together to make life better for the other inmates, the three women became known as "The Trinity". Goldman was released on September 27, 1919.<ref>Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 253â€“263.</ref>
+== Deportation ==
+Goldman and Berkman were released during America's [[First Red Scare|Red Scare of 1919â€“20]] when public anxiety about wartime pro-German activities had morphed into an exaggerated fear of Bolshevism and the prospect of an imminent radical revolution. [[Attorney General]] [[Alexander Mitchell Palmer]] and [[J. Edgar Hoover]], head of the U.S. [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice's]] General Intelligence Division, were intent on using the [[Anarchist Exclusion Act]] of 1918 to deport any non-citizens they could identify as advocates of anarchy or revolution. "Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman," Hoover wrote while they were in prison, "are, beyond doubt, two of the most dangerous anarchists in this country and return to the community will result in undue harm."<ref>Quoted in Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 215.</ref>
+At her deportation hearing on October 27, she refused to answer questions about her beliefs on the grounds that her American citizenship invalidated any attempt to deport her under the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which could be enforced only against non-citizens of the U.S. She presented a written statement instead: "Today so-called aliens are deported. Tomorrow native Americans will be banished. Already some patrioteers are suggesting that native American sons to whom democracy is a sacred ideal should be exiled."<ref>{{cite news|title=Deportation Defied by Emma Goldman|work=The New York Times|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D05E4DC1138EE32A2575BC2A9669D946896D6CF|date=October 28, 1919|accessdate=February 4, 2010}}</ref> [[Louis Freeland Post|Louis Post]] at the [[United States Department of Labor|Department of Labor]], which had ultimately authority over deportation decisions, determined that the revocation of her husband's American citizenship in 1908 had revoked hers as well. After initially promising a court fight,<ref>{{cite news|title=Will Fight Deportation|work=The New York Times|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9405E7D7153BEE32A25752C0A9649D946896D6CF|date=December 1, 1919|accessdate=February 4, 2010}}</ref> she decided not appeal his ruling.<ref>Post, pp. 13â€“14.</ref>
+The Labor Department included Goldman and Berkman among 249 aliens it deported en masse, mostly people with only vague associations with radical groups who had been swept up in [[Palmer Raids|government raids]] in November.<ref>McCormick, pp. 158â€“163.</ref> [[USAT Buford|''Buford'']], a ship the press nicknamed the "Soviet Ark," sailed from New York on December 21. Some 58 enlisted men and four officers provided security on the journey and pistols were distributed to the crew.<ref>{{cite news|title='Ark' with 300 Reds Sails Early Today for Unnamed Port|work=The New York Times|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A01EEDC1E3CEE3ABC4951DFB4678382609EDE|date=December 21, 1919|accessdate=February 1, 2010}}</ref><ref>Post, p. 4.</ref> Most of the press approved enthusiastically. The Cleveland ''Plain Dealer'' wrote: "It is hoped and expected that other vessels, larger, more commodious, carrying similar cargoes, will follow in her wake."<ref>Murray, 208-9</ref> The ship landed her charges in [[Hanko]], [[Finland]] on Saturday, January 17, 1920.<ref>{{cite news|title=Soviet Ark Lands its Reds in  Finland|work=The New York Times|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A04E4DA123FE432A2575BC1A9679C946195D6CF|date=January 18, 1920|accessdate=February 1, 2010}}</ref> Upon arrival in Finland, authorities there conducted the deportees to the Russian frontier under a flag of truce.<ref>Murray, pp. 207â€“208.</ref><ref>Post, pp. 1â€“11.</ref>
+==Russia==
+[[Image:Dissillusioncover.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Goldman was so disenchanted by her experiences in the [[Soviet Union]] that in 1923 she wrote ''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]''.]]
+Goldman initially viewed the Bolshevik revolution in a positive light. She wrote in ''Mother Earth'' that despite its dependence on [[Communist]] government, it represented "the most fundamental, far-reaching and all-embracing principles of human freedom and of economic well-being".<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 243.</ref> By the time she neared Europe, however, she expressed fears about what was to come. She was worried about the ongoing [[Russian Civil War]] and the possibility of being seized by anti-Bolshevik forces. The state, anti-capitalist though it was, also posed a threat. "I could never in my life work within the confines of the State," she wrote to her niece, "Bolshevist or otherwise."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 17.</ref>
+She quickly discovered that her fears were justified. Days after returning to [[Petrograd]] (Saint Petersburg), she was shocked to hear a party official refer to free speech as a "bourgeois superstition".<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 150.</ref> As she and Berkman traveled around the country, they found repression, mismanagement, and corruption instead of the equality and worker empowerment they had dreamed of. Those who questioned the government were demonized as [[counter-revolutionary|counter-revolutionaries]], and workers labored under severe conditions. They met with [[Vladimir Lenin]], who assured them that government suppression of press liberties was justified. He told them: "There can be no free speech in a revolutionary period."<ref>Quoted in Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 235.</ref> Berkman was more willing to forgive the government's actions in the name of "historical necessity", but he eventually joined Goldman in opposing the Soviet state's authority.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 236â€“237.</ref>
+In March 1921, strikes erupted in Petrograd when workers took to the streets demanding better food rations and more [[Trade union|union]] autonomy. Goldman and Berkman felt a responsibility to support the strikers, stating: "To remain silent now is impossible, even criminal."<ref>Quoted in Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 237.</ref> The unrest spread to the port town of [[Kronstadt]], where a military response was ordered. In the [[Kronstadt rebellion|fighting that ensued]], approximately 1,000 rebelling sailors and soldiers were killed and two thousand more were arrested. In the wake of these events, Goldman and Berkman decided there was no future in the country for them. "More and more", she wrote, "we have come to the conclusion that we can do nothing here. And as we can not keep up a life of inactivity much longer we have decided to leave."<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', pp. 47â€“49.</ref>
+In December 1921 they left the country and went to the [[Latvia]]n capital city of [[Riga]]. The US commissioner in that city wired officials in [[Washington DC]], who began requesting information from other governments about the couple's activities. After a short trip to [[Stockholm]], they moved to [[Berlin]] for several years; during this time she agreed to write a series of articles about her time in Russia for [[Joseph Pulitzer]]'s newspaper, the ''[[New York World]]''. These were later collected and published in book form as ''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]'' (1923) and ''[[My Further Disillusionment in Russia]]'' (1924). The titles of these books were added by the publishers to be scintillating and Goldman protested, albeit in vain.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', pp. 56â€“58.</ref>
+==England, Canada, and France==
+Goldman found it difficult to acclimate to the German leftist community. Communists despised her outspokenness about Soviet repression; liberals derided her radicalism. While Berkman remained in Berlin helping Russian exiles, she moved to [[London]] in September 1924. Upon her arrival, the novelist [[Rebecca West]] arranged a reception dinner for her, attended by philosopher [[Bertrand Russell]], novelist [[H. G. Wells]], and more than two hundred others. When she spoke of her dissatisfaction with the Soviet government, the audience was shocked. Some left the gathering; others berated her for prematurely criticizing the Communist experiment.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 161â€“162.</ref> Later, in a letter, Russell declined to support her efforts at systemic change in the Soviet Union and ridiculed her anarchist idealism.<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 96.</ref>
+[[Image:Sacvan.jpg|thumb|right|The 1927 executions of Italian anarchists [[Nicola Sacco]] (right) and [[Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] were troubling for Goldman, living alone in Canada at the time.]]
+In 1925, the spectre of deportation loomed again, but a Scottish anarchist named [[James Colton]] offered to marry her and provide British citizenship. Although they were only distant acquaintances, she accepted and they were married on June 27, 1925. Her new status gave her peace of mind, and allowed her to travel to France and Canada.<ref>Falk, ''Love'', pp. 209â€“210.</ref> Life in London was stressful for Goldman; she wrote to Berkman: "I am awfully tired and so lonely and heartsick. It is a dreadful feeling to come back here from lectures and find not a kindred soul, no one who cares whether one is dead or alive."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 111.</ref> She worked on analytical studies of drama, expanding on the work she had published in 1914. But the audiences were "awful" and she never finished her second book on the subject.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 115.</ref>
+Goldman traveled to Canada in 1927, just in time to receive news of the impending executions of Italian anarchists [[Nicola Sacco]] and [[Bartolomeo Vanzetti]] in Boston. Angered by the many irregularities of the case, she saw it as another travesty of justice in the US. She longed to join the mass demonstrations in [[Boston]]; memories of the [[Haymarket affair]] overwhelmed her, compounded by her isolation. "Then," she wrote, "I had my life before me to take up the cause for those killed. Now I have nothing."<ref>Quoted in Chalberg, p. 164.</ref><ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 122.</ref>
+In 1928 she began writing her autobiography, with the support of a group of admirers, including journalist [[H. L. Mencken]], poet [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], novelist [[Theodore Dreiser]] and art collector [[Peggy Guggenheim]], who raised $4,000 for her.<ref>Mary V. Dearborn, ''Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim'', Houghton Mifflin, 2004, pp.61â€“62</ref>  She secured a cottage in the French coastal city of [[Saint-Tropez]] and spent two years recounting her life. Berkman offered sharply critical feedback, which she eventually incorporated at the price of a strain on their relationship.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 135.</ref> Goldman intended the book, ''[[Living My Life]]'', as a single volume for a price the working class could afford (she urged no more than $5.00); her publisher [[Alfred A. Knopf]], however, released it as two volumes sold together for $7.50. Goldman was furious, but unable to force a change. Due in large part to the [[Great Depression]], sales were sluggish despite keen interest from libraries around the US.<ref>Chalberg, pp. 165â€“166.</ref> Critical reviews were generally enthusiastic; the ''[[New York Times]]'', ''[[The New Yorker|New Yorker]]'', and ''[[Saturday Review (US magazine)|Saturday Review of Literature]]'' all listed it as one of the year's top non-fiction books.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 154.</ref>
+In 1933 Goldman received permission to lecture in the United States under the condition that she speak only about drama and her autobiographyâ€”but not current political events. She returned to New York on February 2, 1934 to generally positive press coverageâ€”except from Communist publications. Soon she was surrounded by admirers and friends, besieged with invitations to talks and interviews. Her visa expired in May, and she went to [[Toronto]] in order to file another request to visit the US. However, this second attempt was denied. She stayed in Canada, writing articles for US publications.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', pp. 158â€“164.</ref>
+In February and March 1936 Berkman underwent a pair of [[prostate gland]] operations. Recuperating in [[Nice]] and cared for by his companion, Emmy Eckstein, he missed Goldman's sixty-seventh birthday in [[Saint-Tropez]] in June. She wrote in sadness, but he never read the letter; she received a call in the middle of the night that Berkman was in great distress. She left for [[Nice, France|Nice]] immediately but when she arrived that morning, Goldman found that he had shot himself and was in a nearly comatose [[paralysis]]. He died the next day.<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 298â€“300.</ref>
+==Spanish Civil War==
+In July 1936, the [[Spanish Civil War]] started after an attempted ''[[coup d'Ã©tat]]'' by parts of the [[Spanish Army]]  against the government of the [[Second Spanish Republic]]. At the same time, the [[Anarchism in Spain|Spanish anarchists]], fighting against the fascist forces, started [[Spanish Revolution|an anarchist revolution]]. Goldman was invited to [[Barcelona]] and in an instant, as she wrote to her niece, "the crushing weight that was pressing down on my heart since Sasha's death left me as by magic".<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 301â€“302.</ref> She was welcomed by the [[ConfederaciÃ³n Nacional del Trabajo]] (CNT) and [[FederaciÃ³n Anarquista IbÃ©rica]] (FAI) organizations, and for the first time in her life lived in a [[Anarchist Catalonia|community run by and for anarchists]], according to true anarchist principles. "In all my life", she wrote later, "I have not met with such warm hospitality, comradeship and solidarity."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, p. 232.</ref> After touring a series of [[collectives]] in the province of [[Huesca (province)|Huesca]], she told a group of workers: "Your revolution will destroy forever [the notion] that anarchism stands for chaos."<ref>Quoted in Drinnon, ''Rebel'', p. 303.</ref> She began editing the weekly ''CNT-FAI Information Bulletin'' and responded to English-language mail.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 205.</ref>
+[[Image:CNT FAI flag.png|thumb|left|Goldman edited the English-language ''Bulletin'' of the [[Anarcho-syndicalist]] organizations [[ConfederaciÃ³n Nacional del Trabajo]] (CNT) and [[FederaciÃ³n Anarquista IbÃ©rica]] (FAI) during the [[Spanish Civil War]].]]
+Goldman began to worry about the future of Spain's anarchism when the CNT-FAI joined a coalition government in 1937â€”against the core anarchist principle of abstaining from state structuresâ€”and, more distressingly, made repeated concessions to Communist forces in the name of uniting against fascism. She wrote that cooperating with Communists in Spain was "a denial of our comrades in Stalin's concentration camps".<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 209.</ref> Russia, meanwhile, refused to send weapons to anarchist forces, and disinformation campaigns were being waged against the anarchists across Europe and the US. Her faith in the movement unshaken, Goldman returned to London as an official representative of the CNT-FAI.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', pp. 209â€“210.</ref>
+Delivering lectures and giving interviews, Goldman enthusiastically supported the Spanish anarcho-syndicalists. She wrote regularly for ''[[Freedom (newspaper)|Spain and the World]]'', a biweekly newspaper focusing on the civil war. In May 1937, however, Communist-led forces [[Barcelona May Days|attacked anarchist strongholds]] and broke up agrarian collectives. Newspapers in England and elsewhere accepted the timeline of events offered by the [[Second Spanish Republic]] at face value. British journalist [[George Orwell]], present for the crackdown, wrote: "[T]he accounts of the Barcelona riots in May&nbsp;...&nbsp;beat everything I have ever seen for lying."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 216.</ref>
+Goldman returned to Spain in September, but the CNT-FAI appeared to her like people "in a burning house". Worse, anarchists and other radicals around the world refused to support their cause.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 222.</ref> The [[Spain under Franco|Nationalist forces]] declared victory in Spain just before she returned to London. Frustrated by England's repressive atmosphereâ€”which she called "more fascist than the fascists"<ref>Quoted in Wexler, p. 226.</ref>â€”she returned to Canada in 1939. Her service to the anarchist cause in Spain was not forgotten, however. On her seventieth birthday, the former Secretary-General of the CNT-FAI, Mariano VÃ¡zquez, sent a message to her from Paris, praising her for her contributions and naming her as "our spiritual mother". She called it "the most beautiful tribute I have ever received".<ref>Both quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 232.</ref>
+==Final years==
+[[Image:Emma Goldman Grave.jpg|thumb|right|upright|225px|Goldman's grave in Illinois' [[German Waldheim Cemetery|Forest Home Cemetery]], near those of the anarchists executed for the [[Haymarket affair]]. The dates on the stone are incorrect.]]
+As the events preceding [[World War II]]  began to unfold in Europe, Goldman reiterated her opposition to wars waged by governments. "[M]uch as I loathe [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], [[Benito Mussolini|Mussolini]], [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] and [[Francisco Franco|Franco]]," she wrote to a friend, "I would not support a war against them and for the democracies which, in the last analysis, are only Fascist in disguise."<ref name="WexEx236">Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 236.</ref> She felt that England and  France had missed their opportunity to oppose fascism, and that the coming war would only result in "a new form of madness in the world".<ref name="WexEx236"/> This position was vastly unpopular, as Hitler's attacks on Jewish communities reverberated throughout the Jewish diaspora.
+==Death==
+On Saturday, February 17, 1940, Goldman suffered a debilitating [[stroke]]. She became paralyzed on her right side, and although her hearing was unaffected, she could not speak. As one friend described it: "Just to think that here was Emma, the greatest orator in America, unable to utter one word."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 240.</ref> For three months she improved slightly, receiving visitors and on one occasion gesturing to her address book to signal that a friend might find friendly contacts during a trip to Mexico. She suffered another stroke on May 8, however, and on May 14 she died in [[Toronto, Canada]], aged 70. <ref>Wexler, pp. 240â€“241.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Emma Goldman, Anarchist, Dead. Internationally Known Figure, Deported From The U.S., Is Stricken In Toronto. Disillusioned By Soviets Opposed Lenin And Trotsky As Betrayers Of Socialism Through Despotism. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F1EFB3A54107A93C6A8178ED85F448485F9&scp=1&st=p |quote=Emma Goldman, internationally known anarchist, died early today at her home here after an illness of several months. She was 70 years old. |work=The New York Times |date=May 14, 1940 |accessdate=April 20, 2008 }}</ref> The US [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] allowed her body to be brought back to the United States. She was buried in [[German Waldheim Cemetery]] (now named Forest Home Cemetery) in [[Forest Park, Illinois|Forest Park]], Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, among the graves of other labor and social activists including those executed after the [[Haymarket affair]].<ref>Drinnon, ''Rebel'', pp. 312â€“313.</ref> The [[bas relief]] on her grave marker was created by sculptor [[Jo Davidson]].
+==Philosophy==
+Goldman spoke and wrote extensively on a wide variety of issues. While she rejected [[orthodoxy]] and fundamentalist thinking, she was an important contributor to several fields of modern political philosophy. She was influenced by many diverse thinkers and writers, including [[Mikhail Bakunin]], [[Henry David Thoreau]], [[Peter Kropotkin]], [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]], [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky]], and [[Mary Wollstonecraft]]. Another philosopher who influenced Goldman was [[Friedrich Nietzsche]]. In her autobiography she wrote: "Nietzsche was not a social theorist, but a poet, a rebel, and innovator. His aristocracy was neither of birth nor of purse; it was the spirit. In that respect Nietzsche was an anarchist, and all true anarchists were [[Aristocracy (government)|aristocrats]]."<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', 194.</ref>
+===Anarchism===
+Anarchism was central to Goldman's view of the world and she is today considered one of the most important figures in the history of anarchism. First drawn to it during the persecution of anarchists after the 1886 [[Haymarket affair]], she wrote and spoke regularly on behalf of anarchism. In the title essay of her book ''[[Anarchism and Other Essays]]'', she wrote:<blockquote>Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals for the purpose of producing real social wealth; an order that will guarantee to every human being free access to the earth and full enjoyment of the necessities of life, according to individual desires, tastes, and inclinations.<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 62.</ref></blockquote>
+{{Anarchism sidebar}}
+Goldman's anarchism was intensely personal. She believed it was necessary for anarchist thinkers to live their beliefs, demonstrating their convictions with every action and word. "I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct," she once wrote. "I care if his spirit of today is correct."<ref name="WexInt92">Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 92.</ref> Anarchism and free association were to her logical responses to the confines of government control and capitalism. "It seems to me that ''these'' are the new forms of life," she wrote, "and that they will take the place of the old, not by preaching or voting, but by living them."<ref name="WexInt92"/>
+At the same time, she believed that the movement on behalf of human liberty must be staffed by liberated humans. While dancing among fellow anarchists one evening, she was chided by an associate for her carefree demeanor. In her autobiography Goldman wrote:<blockquote>I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown in my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to behave as a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it. "I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things."<ref>Goldman, ''Living'', p. 56.</ref></blockquote>
+==== Capitalism ====
+Goldman believed that the economic system of [[capitalism]] was inimical to human liberty. "The only demand that property recognizes," she wrote in ''Anarchism and Other Essays'', "is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade."<ref name="EGAnar54">Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 54.</ref> She also argued that capitalism dehumanized workers, "turning the producer into a mere particle of a machine, with less will and decision than his master of steel and iron."<ref name="EGAnar54"/>
+Originally opposed to anything less than complete revolution, Goldman was challenged during one talk by an elderly worker in the front row. In her autobiography, she wrote:<blockquote>He said that he understood my impatience with such small demands as a few hours less a day, or a few dollars more a week.... But what were men of his age to do? They were not likely to live to see the ultimate overthrow of the capitalist system. Were they also to forgo the release of perhaps two hours a day from the hated work? That was all they could hope to see realized in their lifetime.<ref name="Goldman-Living-52" /></blockquote>Goldman realized that smaller efforts for improvement such as higher wages and shorter hours could be part of a social revolution.
+====Tactics====
+Among the tactics that Goldman endorsed was targeted violence. Early in her career Goldman believed that the use of violence, while distasteful, could be effective in achieving a greater good. She advocated [[propaganda of the deed]]â€”''attentat'', or violence carried out to encourage the masses to revolt. She supported her partner [[Alexander Berkman|Alexander Berkman's]] attempt to kill industrialist [[Henry Clay Frick]], and even begged him to allow her to participate.<ref name="EGLiv88">Goldman, ''Living'', p. 88.</ref> She believed that Frick's actions during the [[Homestead strike]] were reprehensible and that his murder would produce a positive result for working people. "Yes," she wrote later in her autobiography, "the end in this case justified the means."<ref name="EGLiv88"/> While she never gave explicit approval of [[Leon Czolgosz|Leon Czolgosz's]] assassination of U.S. President [[William McKinley]], she defended his ideals and believed actions like his were a natural consequence of repressive institutions. As she wrote in "The Psychology of Political Violence": "the accumulated forces in our social and economic life, culminating in an act of violence, are similar to the terrors of the atmosphere, manifested in storm and lightning."<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 79.</ref>
+Her experiences in Russia led her to reassess her earlier belief that revolutionary ends justified violent means. The repression and authoritarian control of the [[Soviet Union]] caused a radical shift in her perspective. Indeed, by 1923 she had nearly reversed her position. In the afterword to ''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]'', she wrote: "There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another.... The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose...."<ref>Goldman, ''Disillusionment'', pp. 260â€“261.</ref>
+Nevertheless, she viewed the state as essentially and inevitably a tool of control and domination. As a result, Goldman believed that voting was useless at best and dangerous at worst. Voting, she wrote, provided an illusion of participation while masking the true structures of decision-making. Instead, Goldman advocated targeted resistance in the form of [[strike action|strikes]], protests, and "direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code".<ref name="WexInt91">Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 91.</ref> She maintained an anti-voting position even when many anarcho-syndicalists in 1930s Spain voted for the formation of a liberal republic. Goldman wrote that any power anarchists wielded as a voting bloc should instead be used to strike across the country.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 167.</ref> She disagreed with the movement for [[women's suffrage]], which demanded the right of women to vote. In her essay "Woman Suffrage", she ridicules the idea that women's involvement would infuse the democratic state with a more just orientation: "As if women have not sold their votes, as if women politicians cannot be bought!"<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 205.</ref> She agreed with the suffragists' assertion that women are equal to men, but disagreed that their participation alone would make the state more just. "To assume, therefore, that she would succeed in purifying something which is not susceptible of purification, is to credit her with supernatural powers."<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 198.</ref>
+===Feminism===
+[[Image:EmmaGoldmanQuote2000.JPG|thumb|right|Young [[anarcha-feminist]]s at an anti-globalization protest quote Emma Goldman.]]
+Although she was hostile to the suffragist goals of [[first-wave feminism]], Goldman advocated passionately for the rights of women, and is today heralded as a founder of [[anarcha-feminism]], which challenges [[patriarchy]] as a hierarchy to be resisted alongside state power and class divisions.<ref>Marshall, p. 409.</ref> In 1897 she wrote: "I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood."<ref>Quoted in Wexler, ''Intimate'', p. 94.</ref>
+A nurse by training, she was an early advocate for educating women concerning [[Birth control|contraception]]. Like many contemporary feminists, she saw [[abortion]] as a tragic consequence of social conditions, and birth control as a positive alternative. Goldman was also an advocate of [[free love]], and a strong critic of [[marriage]]. She saw early feminists as confined in their scope and bounded by social forces of [[Religious fanaticism|Puritanism]] and capitalism. She wrote: "We are in need of unhampered growth out of old traditions and habits. The movement for women's emancipation has so far made but the first step in that direction."<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 224.</ref><ref>See generally Haaland; Goldman, "The Traffic in Women"; Goldman, "On Love".</ref>
+===Free speech===
+As an anarchist, Goldman championed numerous human rights causes, particularly the issue of [[free speech]]. Widely persecuted for her advocacy of anarchism and [[opposition to World War I]], Goldman was active in the early 20th century free speech movement, seeing freedom of expression as a fundamental necessity for achieving social change.<ref name="Goldman-Living">See generally ''Living My Life''.</ref><ref name="Stone-2004">See Geoffrey R. Stone, ''Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime, From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism'' (2004), pp. 139â€“152 (discussing persecution of Goldman and other anti-war activists, and the passage of the [[Espionage Act of 1917]]).</ref><ref name="Falk-Volume2">Falk, ''Making Speech Free''.</ref><ref name="Rabban-1997">David M. Rabban, ''Free Speech In Its Forgotten Years'' (1997).</ref> Her outspoken championship of her ideals, in the face of persistent arrests, inspired [[Roger Nash Baldwin|Roger Baldwin]], one of the founders of the [[American Civil Liberties Union]].<ref name="Finan-2007">Christopher M. Finan, ''From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America'', p. 18.</ref>
+===Prisons===
+Another issue that Goldman frequently addressed was [[criminal justice]]. She was a passionate critic of the [[prison]] system and viewed crime as a natural outgrowth of an unjust economic system. In her essay "Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure", she quotes liberally from the nineteenth-century authors [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] and [[Oscar Wilde]], and writes: "Year after year the gates of prison hells return to the world an emaciated, deformed, will-less, shipwrecked crew of humanity, with the Cain mark on their foreheads, their hopes crushed, all their natural inclinations thwarted. With nothing but hunger and inhumanity to greet them, these victims soon sink back into crime as the only possibility of existence."<ref>Goldman, ''Anarchism'', p. 120.</ref>
+===Homosexuality===
+Goldman was also an outspoken critic of [[homophobia|prejudice against homosexuals]]. Her belief that social liberation should extend to gay men and lesbians was virtually unheard of at the time, even among anarchists.<ref>{{cite book|last=Katz|first=Jonathan Ned|title=Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.|year=1992|location=New York City|publisher=Penguin Books|pages=376â€“380}}</ref> As [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] wrote, "she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public."<ref name="hirschfeld">Goldman, Emma (1923). "Offener Brief an den Herausgeber der JahrbÃ¼cher Ã¼ber Louise Michel" with a preface by Magnus Hirschfeld. ''Jahrbuch fÃ¼r sexuelle Zwischenstufen'' 23: 70. Translated from German by James Steakley. Goldman's original letter in English is not known to be extant.</ref> In numerous speeches and letters she defended the right of gay men and lesbians to love as they pleased and condemned the fear and stigma associated with homosexuality. As Goldman wrote in a letter to Hirschfeld, "It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life."<ref name="hirschfeld"/>
+===Atheism===
+A committed [[atheist]], Goldman viewed religion as another instrument of control and domination. Her essay "The Philosophy of Atheism" quotes Bakunin at length on the subject, and adds:<blockquote>Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of Atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of [[theism]], if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.<ref>{{cite journal |last= Goldman|first= Emma|year= 1916|month= February|title= The Philosophy of Atheism|journal= Mother Earth|volume= |issue= |url= http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Atheism|accessdate= December 7, 2007|quote=}}</ref></blockquote>In essays like "The Hypocrisy of Puritanism" and a speech entitled "The Failure of Christianity", Goldman made more than a few enemies among religious communities by attacking their moralistic attitudes and efforts to control human behavior. She blamed Christianity for "the perpetuation of a slave society", arguing that it dictated individuals' actions on Earth and offered poor people a false promise of a plentiful future in heaven.<ref>Goldman, [http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/goldman413.htm "The Failure of Christianity"]. ''Mother Earth'', April 1913.</ref> She was also critical of [[Zionism]], which she saw as another failed experiment in state control.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 41.</ref>
+==Legacy==
+Goldman was well-known during her life, described asâ€”among other thingsâ€”"the most dangerous woman in America".<ref>{{cite book  |author= Paul Avrich |title= Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America |publisher= [[AK Press]] |year= 2006 |page= 45 |isbn= 1904859275}}</ref> After her death and through the middle part of the 20th century, her fame faded. Scholars and historians of anarchism viewed her as a great speaker and activist, but did not regard her as a philosophical or theoretical thinker on par with, for instance, [[Peter Kropotkin|Kropotkin]].<ref>Marshall, pp. 396â€“401.</ref>
+[[Image:Emma Goldman2.png|thumb|left|300px|Goldman's image, often accompanying a popular paraphrase of her ideasâ€”"If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution"â€”has been reproduced on countless walls, garments, stickers, and posters as an icon of freedom.]]
+In 1970, [[Dover Press]] reissued Goldman's biography, ''Living My Life'', and in 1972, feminist writer [[Alix Kates Shulman]] issued a collection of Goldman's writing and speeches, ''Red Emma Speaks''. These works brought Goldman's life and writings to a larger audience, and she was in particular lionized by the [[Second-wave feminism|women's movement]] of the late twentieth century. In 1973 Shulman was asked by a printer friend for a quotation by Goldman for use on a t-shirt. She sent him the selection from ''Living My Life'' about "the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things"; the printer created a paraphrase that has become one of Goldman's most famous quotations, even though she herself probably never said or wrote it: "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution."<ref>[[Alix Kates Shulman|Shulman, Alix Kates]]. "[http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Features/dances_shulman.html Dances with Feminists]". ''Women's Review of Books'', Vol. IX, #3. December 1991. Available at the [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ Emma Goldman Papers]. Retrieved on December 13, 2007.</ref> Variations of this saying have appeared on thousands of t-shirts, buttons, posters, bumper stickers, coffee mugs, hats, and other items.<ref name="wexler1">Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 1.</ref> In ''Living My Life'' Goldman recounts being admonished for dancing, "that it did not behoove an agitator to dance." She further wrote "I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement should not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it."<ref name="wexler1">Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 1.</ref>
+The women's movement of the 1970s that "rediscovered" Goldman was accompanied by a resurgent anarchist movement, beginning in the late 1960s, which also reinvigorated scholarly attention to earlier anarchists. The growth of [[feminism]] also initiated some reevaluation of Goldman's philosophical work, with scholars pointing out the significance of Goldman's contributions to anarchist thought in her time. Goldman's belief in the value of [[aesthetics]], for example, can be seen in the later influences of [[anarchism and the arts]]. Similarly, Goldman is now given credit for significantly influencing and broadening the scope of activism on issues of sexual liberty, reproductive rights, and freedom of expression.<ref>Marshall, pp. 408â€“409.</ref>
+Goldman has been depicted in numerous works of fiction over the years, perhaps most notably by [[Maureen Stapleton]], who won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for her role as Goldman in [[Warren Beatty]]'s 1981 film ''[[Reds (film)|Reds]]''. Goldman has also been a character in two Broadway musicals, ''[[Ragtime (musical)|Ragtime]]'' and ''[[Assassins (musical)|Assassins]]''.  Plays depicting Goldman's life include [[Howard Zinn]]'s play, ''[[Emma (play)|Emma]]'';<ref>{{cite book |author= Howard Zinn |title= Emma: A Play in Two Acts about Emma Goldman, American Anarchist |publisher= [[South End Press]] |year= 2002 |isbn= 089608664X }}</ref> [[Martin Duberman]]'s ''Mother Earth'' (1991);<ref>{{cite book |author= Martin Duberman |title= Mother Earth: An Epic Drama of Emma Goldman's Life |publisher= [[St. Martin's Press]] |year= 1991 |isbn= 031205954X}}</ref> [[Jessica Litwak]]'s ''Emma Goldman: Love, Anarchy, and Other Affairs'' (Goldman's relationship with Berkman and her arrest in connection with McKinley's assassination); [[Lynn Rogoff]]'s ''Love Ben, Love Emma'' (Goldman's relationship with Reitman);<ref>[http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsR/rogoff-lynn.html Lynn Rogoff] at doollee.com: The Playwrights Database</ref> and [[Carol Bolt]]'s ''Red Emma''.<ref>Wexler, ''Exile'', p. 249. </ref> [[Ethel Mannin]]'s 1941 novel ''Red Rose'' is also based on Goldman's Life.<ref>{{cite book | last=Mannin | first=Ethel | authorlink=Ethel Mannin | title= Red Rose: A Novel Based on the Life of Emma Goldman ("Red Emma") | publisher = Jarrolds | year = 1941 }}</ref>
+Goldman has been honored by a number of organizations named in her memory. '''The Emma Goldman Clinic''', a women's health center located in [[Iowa City, Iowa]] selected Goldman as a namesake "in recognition of her challenging spirit."<ref>"[http://www.emmagoldman.com/about/about.htm About Us]". The Emma Goldman Clinic. 2007. Retrieved on December 15, 2007.</ref> [[Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse]], an [[infoshop]] in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] adopted her name out of their belief "in the ideas and ideals that she fought for her entire life: free speech, sexual and racial equality and independence, the right to organize in our jobs and in our own lives, ideas and ideals that we continue to fight for, even today".<ref>{{cite web
+|url=http://www.redemmas.org/section/About/emma/
+|title=Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse: Who is Red Emma?
+|publisher=[[Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse]]
+|accessdate=February 24, 2008}}</ref>
+==Works==
+Goldman was a prolific writer, penning countless pamphlets and articles on a diverse range of subjects. She authored six books, including her autobiography, ''[[Living My Life]]'', and a biography of fellow anarchist [[Voltairine de Cleyre]].
+===Books written by Emma Goldman===
+*''[[Anarchism and Other Essays]]''. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910.
+*''[[The Social Significance of the Modern Drama]]''. Boston: Gorham Press, 1914.
+*''[[My Disillusionment in Russia]]''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923.
+*''[[My Further Disillusionment in Russia]]''. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924.
+*''[[Living My Life]]''. New York: Knopf, 1931.
+*''Voltairine de Cleyre''. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Oriole Press, 1932.
+===Edited collections===
+*''Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches''. New York: Random House, 1972. ISBN 0-394-47095-8
+*''Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 1&nbsp;â€“ Made for America, 1890â€“1901''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. ISBN 0-520-08670-8.
+*''Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 2&nbsp;â€“ Making Speech Free, 1902â€“1909''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN 0-520-22569-4.
+==Notes==
+{{Reflist|3}}
+==References==
+{{refbegin}}
+==Sources==
+*[[Paul Avrich|Avrich, Paul]]. ''The Haymarket Tragedy''. Princeton: [[Princeton University Press]], 1984. ISBN 0-691-04711-1.
+*[[Alexander Berkman|Berkman, Alexander]]. ''Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader''. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows Press, 1992. ISBN 1-888363-17-7.
+*Chalberg, John. ''Emma Goldman: American Individualist''. New York: [[HarperCollins Publishers Inc.]], 1991. ISBN 0-673-52102-8.
+*Drinnon, Richard. ''Rebel in Paradise: A Biography of Emma Goldman''. Chicago: [[University of Chicago Press]], 1961. {{OCLC|266217}}.
+*Drinnon, Richard and Anna Maria, eds. ''Nowhere At Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman''. New York: [[Schocken Books]], 1975. {{OCLC|1055309}}.
+*Falk, Candace, et al. ''Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 1&nbsp;â€“ Made for America, 1890â€“1901''. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]], 2003. ISBN 0-520-08670-8.
+*Falk, Candace, et al. ''Emma Goldman: A Documentary History Of The American Years, Volume 2&nbsp;â€“ Making Speech Free, 1902â€“1909''. Berkeley: [[University of California Press]], 2004. ISBN 0-520-22569-4.
+*Falk, Candace Serena. ''Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman''. New Brunswick: [[Rutgers University Press]], 1990. ISBN 0-8135-1512-2.
+*Glassgold, Peter, ed. ''Anarchy! An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth''. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2001. ISBN 1-58243-040-3.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''Anarchism and Other Essays''. 3rd ed. 1917. New York: [[Dover Publications]] Inc., 1969. ISBN 0-486-22484-8.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''Living My Life''. 1931. New York: [[Dover Publications]] Inc., 1970. ISBN 0-486-22543-7.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''My Disillusionment in Russia''. 1923. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1970. {{OCLC|76645}}.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''Red Emma Speaks''. ed. [[Alix Kates Shulman]]. New York: [[Random House]], 1972. ISBN 0-394-47095-8.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''The Social Significance of Modern Drama''. <!-- The correct title of Goldman's book is "The Social Significance of _the_ Modern Drama", but this is the title under which the 1987 edition was published --> 1914. New York: Applause Theatre Book Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-936839-61-9.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''The Traffic in Women, and Other Essays on Feminism''. Albion, CA: Times Change Press, 1970. ISBN 0-878-10001-6.
+*Goldman, Emma. ''The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation''. New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1906. {{OCLC|15865931}}
+*Goldman, Emma. ''Vision on Fire: Emma Goldman on the Spanish Revolution''. ed. David Porter. New Paltz, NY: Commonground Press, 1983. ISBN 0-9610348-2-3.
+*Haaland, Bonnie. ''Emma Goldman: Sexuality and the Impurity of the State''. MontrÃ©al, New York, London: Black Rose Books, 1993. ISBN 1-895431-64-6.
+*Marsh, Margaret S. ''Anarchist Women 1870â€“1920''. Philadelphia: [[Temple University Press]], 1981. ISBN 0-877-22202-9.
+*[[Peter Marshall (author)|Marshall, Peter]]. ''Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism''. London: [[HarperCollins]], 1992. ISBN 0-00-217855-9.
+*McCormick, Charles H. ''Seeing Reds: Federal Surveillance of Radicals in the Pittsburgh Mill District, 1917â€“1921''. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.
+*Moritz, Theresa. ''The World's Most Dangerous Woman: A New Biography of Emma Goldman''. Vancouver: Subway Books, 2001. ISBN 0-9681660-7-5.
+*Murray, Robert K. ''Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919â€“1920''. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. ISBN 0313226733
+*Post, Louis F. ''The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-twenty: A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience''. NY, 1923.
+*Solomon, Martha. ''Emma Goldman''. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1987. ISBN 0-8057-7494-7.
+*Weiss, Penny A. and Loretta Kensinger, eds. ''Feminist Interpretations of Emma Goldman''. University Park: [[Pennsylvania State University Press]], 2007. ISBN 0271029765.
+*Wexler, Alice. ''Emma Goldman: An Intimate Life''. New York: [[Pantheon Books]], 1984. ISBN 0-394-52975-8. Republished as ''Emma Goldman in America''. Boston: [[Beacon Press]], 1984. ISBN 0-8070-7003-3.
+*Wexler, Alice. ''Emma Goldman in Exile: From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War''. Boston: [[Beacon Press]], 1989. ISBN 0-8070-7004-1.
+{{refend}}
+==External links==
+* {{gutenberg author| id=Goldman+Emma | name=Emma Goldman}}
+* [http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/ Emma Goldman Papers Project] at [[UC Berkeley]]
+*{{anarchives|goldman/Goldmanarchive.html}}
+* [http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/Goldman/front.html ''Anarchism and Other Essays''] from American Studies at the University of Virginia
+* [http://ditext.com/goldman/russia/russia.html ''My Disillusionment in Russia''] by Emma Goldman
+* [http://www.panarchy.org/goldman/russia.1924.html Extracts from ''My Further Disillusionment with Russia''] (1924)
+* [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00027 Emma Goldman Papers]. [http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles Schlesinger Library], Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.
+* [http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/goldman/ Emma Goldman "Women of Valor" exhibit] at the [[Jewish Women's Archive]]
+* [http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/goldman-emma "Emma Goldman"]. ''Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia''. Jewish Women's Archive.
+{{Wikipedia:Emma Goldman}}
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