Mary Harris “Mother” Jones (August 1, 1837 – November 30, 1930)

An excerpt from the book Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. Gorn: Her contemporaries marveled at her. “She is a wonder,” the poet Carl Sandburg wrote of Mother Jones during World War I. “Close to 88 years old and her voice a singing voice; nobody else could give me a [...]

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