Summary Of Living My Life By Emma Goldman
Primary Source Review: Living My Life by Emma Goldman
Published by Penguin Group in 2006 originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1931
Emma Goldman
Born on June 27, 1869, in Kovno, Lithuania, Emma Goldman lived with poverty, injustice and oppression from the beginning. She witnessed violence against women and children, landlords brutalizing tenants, and corruption throughout society. The Goldman family experienced oppressive anti-Semitism in their Jewish ghettoes and everyday lives. Emma always felt that injustice must be confronted. But her father tried crush her hungry for freedom and opportunity by sending her to work in a factory and trying to marry her off at the age of fifteen. The Goldman family immigrated to the United States in 1885. They settled in Rochester and Emma found work in a factory.
In 1887 the unfair conviction of several anarchists for a confrontation with police in Chicago sparked Goldman’s political awakening. A fiery speaker and gifted writer, she became an advocate of freedom of expression, birth control, sexual freedom, equality and independence for women, radical education, worker’s rights and union organization.
Goldman was often banned from speaking or arrested when she did. Goldman and fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman were horrified by the violent suppression of Pennsylvania steelworkers who had been locked …show more content…
Goldman and Berkman hoped that their attack on a prominent representative of capitalist oppression would demonstrate to the working classes that they need no longer accept the brutality of the prevailing economic system. Instead, their actions helped provoke a nationwide fear of anarchism. Although Goldman escaped indictment, Berkman received a 21-year prison
Published by Penguin Group in 2006 originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1931
Emma Goldman
Born on June 27, 1869, in Kovno, Lithuania, Emma Goldman lived with poverty, injustice and oppression from the beginning. She witnessed violence against women and children, landlords brutalizing tenants, and corruption throughout society. The Goldman family experienced oppressive anti-Semitism in their Jewish ghettoes and everyday lives. Emma always felt that injustice must be confronted. But her father tried crush her hungry for freedom and opportunity by sending her to work in a factory and trying to marry her off at the age of fifteen. The Goldman family immigrated to the United States in 1885. They settled in Rochester and Emma found work in a factory.
In 1887 the unfair conviction of several anarchists for a confrontation with police in Chicago sparked Goldman’s political awakening. A fiery speaker and gifted writer, she became an advocate of freedom of expression, birth control, sexual freedom, equality and independence for women, radical education, worker’s rights and union organization.
Goldman was often banned from speaking or arrested when she did. Goldman and fellow anarchist Alexander Berkman were horrified by the violent suppression of Pennsylvania steelworkers who had been locked …show more content…
Goldman and Berkman hoped that their attack on a prominent representative of capitalist oppression would demonstrate to the working classes that they need no longer accept the brutality of the prevailing economic system. Instead, their actions helped provoke a nationwide fear of anarchism. Although Goldman escaped indictment, Berkman received a 21-year prison