![]() ![]() In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.īorn in Kaunas, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), to a Jewish family, Goldman emigrated to the United States in 1885. June 15], 1869 - May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. ![]()
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