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Title: Emma Goldman
Biographical Sketch

Author: Charles A. Madison

Release Date: September 4, 2010 [EBook #33628]

Language: English

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EMMA GOLDMAN

_Biographical Sketch_

By
CHARLES A. MADISON

_Author of_
CRITICS AND CRUSADERS

_Published by_
LIBERTARIAN BOOK CLUB, INC.
P. O. Box 842

General Post Office New York 1, N. Y.

May 13, 1960

_Reprinted from_
"CRITICS AND CRUSADERS"
by CHARLES A. MADISON
_with the permission of_
FREDERICK UNGAR PUBLISHING CO.

IN MEMORIAM

The Libertarian Book Club
has published this pamphlet as
a tribute to the memory
of our brave comrade

EMMA GOLDMAN

died May 13, 1940

to commemorate the twentieth anniversary
of her death

[Illustration: EMMA GOLDMAN 1869 1940]

EMMA GOLDMAN

_ANARCHIST REBEL_

The hanging of several anarchists in 1887 as a consequence of the
Haymarket bombing in Chicago caused many Americans to sympathize with
the gibbeted radicals. Youths swathed in bright idealism, men and women
rooted in equalitarian democracy, workers trusting in the rectitude of
their government--all doubted the guilt of the condemned prisoners and
were deeply perturbed by the egregious miscarriage of justice. Many of
them for the first time became aware of the state's ruthless arrogation
of power, and scores upon scores remained to the end of their lives
inimical to government and apprehensive of all forms of authority.

Emma Goldman was one of these converts. Resentment against the
restraints of authority was no new experience for this spirited girl. As
far back as she could remember she had hated and feared her father, a
quick-tempered and deeply harassed Orthodox Jew who had vented his
emotional and financial vexations on his recalcitrant daughter. Unable
to get from him the love and praise she craved, she had refused to
submit to his st