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Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)

BIRTHDAY: May 1, 1830 or 1837

an image of a Mother Jones ABOUT HER
After her four children and her husband died in the yellow fever epidemic, Mary Harris Jones --previously a dressmaker-- got involved in the American labor movement during the 1870s. She was labeled "the most dangerous woman in America" by the politicians of her time. She spoke, wrote and organized constantly against labor conditions which included having seven-year-old children working 14-hour days in the factories for just enough money to feed themselves.

Mary Harris Jones was a blunt speaker and one of the most effective organizers of her time. She organized or attended every major U.S. labor strike from the 1870s until 1924. She was once ordered to leave the state of Colorado for stirring up workers. She died at the age of 100.

Photo courtesy of the Illinois Labor History Society
QUOTES
"Pray for the dead, but fight like Hell for the living."

AWARDS/HONORS

  • Mother Jones magazine is named after Mary Harris Jones
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Mother Jones: The Miners' Angel, Dale Fetherling
Ronnie Gilbert on Mother Jones: Face to Face with the Most Dangerous Woman in America, Ronnie Gilbert
Autobiography of Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jones
Mother Jones Speaks: Collected Speeches and Writings, Mary Harris Jones
The Correspondence of Mother Jones, Mary Harris Jones
Labor's Defiant Lady, Irving Werstein

LINKS TO LEARN SO MUCH MORE
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:80/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/women/MotherJones.html
http://www.uaw.org/special/women/women2.html
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/majones.html
http://www.feminist.com/mother.htm


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