EMMA GOLDMAN 1869 1940 INTERNATIONAL ANARCHIST AND FEMINIST GOLDMAN EMMA 1869 1940 FEMINISM HEALTH/SAFETY POLITICAL PARTIES AMERICAN CULTURE ELECTIONS AND POLITICS EMMA GOLDMAN WAS BORN IN LITHUANIA AND HAD LITTLE FORMAL SCHOOLING WHEN SHE IMMIGRATED TO THE UNITED STATES AT AGE 16 WHILE WORKING AS A SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR IN ROCHESTER NEW YORK GOLDMAN BEGAN ATTENDING MEETINGS OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY IN 1889 SHE MOVED TO NEW YORK CITY AND MET RUSSIAN ANARCHIST ALEXANDER BERKMAN HE PERSUADED GOLDMAN TO BECOME MORE ACTIVE IN RADICAL POLITICS IN 1893 GOLDMAN WAS SENTENCED TO A YEAR IN PRISON FOR INCITING A RIOT AFTER HER RELEASE SHE BEGAN LECTURING AND WRITING ON MANY SUBJECTS INCLUDING ANARCHISM FREE SPEECH AND BIRTH CONTROL SHE FOUNDED AN ANARCHIST MAGAZINE MOTHER EARTH AND EDITED IT FROM 1906 TO 1917 IN 1917 GOLDMAN WAS IMPRISONED FOR TWO YEARS FOR HER OPPOSITION TO THE MILITARY DRAFT UPON HER RELEASE SHE WAS DEPORTED TO RUSSIA GOLDMAN SPENT HER LAST YEARS IN GREAT BRITAIN CANADA AND SPAIN
