biography
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Parsons, Albert Richard
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| lived:
| (1848–87)
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| biography:
| Anarchist and labour activist, born in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Orphaned early, he went to work as a printer's devil (1861) and fought with the Confederate army. He later embraced Socialism, campaigning unsuccessfully for several offices, then joined the radical International Working People's Association and began editing its paper (1884). A speaker at the Haymarket rally in Chicago where a bomb killed several people (May 1886), he was arrested and tried for conspiracy to commit murder and, despite a lack of evidence, was convicted with several others. He refused to seek clemency, and, amid outpourings of appeals on his behalf, he was hanged. |
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