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The most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mary Harris Jones—aka “Mother Jones”—was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser” in the cause of economic justice. She was so strident that a US attorney once labeled her “the most dangerous woman in America.”
Jul 9, 2019 · Mother Jones (born Mary Harris; 1837–November 30, 1930) was a key radical figure in United States labor history. She was a fiery orator, a union agitator for mine workers, and a co-founder of the International Workers of the World (IWW).
Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast. She has reported throughout the public radio system, for NPR, Marketplace, and...
Apr 2, 2014 · Mother Jones was born Mary Harris Jones in 1830 in County Cork, Ireland. During her early years, she and her family fled the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine and moved to Toronto, Canada,...
Mary Harris’ early life was shaped by struggles that she viewed as part of a system of class injustice. She was born in 1837 in Cork, Ireland, enduring the Great Hunger where she witnessed starved corpses carted off while food was taken to the ports of the River Lee to be exported.
Jun 29, 2021 · Born Mary Harris, the woman who would become Mother Jones lived an entire life’s worth of pain, struggle, and tragedy before she found her calling: organizing the working class, uplifting the...
Jun 5, 2024 · Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast. She has reported throughout the public radio system, for NPR, Marketplace, and...
May 19, 2023 · Introduction: The early roles of Mary Harris Jones were schoolteacher, dressmaker, wife to a union activist, and mother of four children. Tragedies led to the loss of these roles and taking up of a dynamic life in labor movement activism which placed her in the national spotlight.
The most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century, Mary Harris Jones – aka “Mother Jones” – was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser” in the cause of economic justice. She was so strident that a U.S. attorney once labeled her “the most dangerous woman in America.”
Mary Harris may refer to: Mary Ann Harris Gay (1829–1918), American writer and poet. Mary Ann Leight Harris (born 1939), American field hockey player and coach. Mary Belle Harris (1874–1957), American prison administrator and reformer.
