"On May 1, 1886, Albert and Lucy Parsons led 80,000 people down Michigan Avenue, in what is regarded as the first-ever May Day Parade, in support of the eight-hour work day."
Lucy Parsons was a Black anarchist and she continued her May Day activism into her 90s. Her legacy is complex but that doesn't make it any less powerful. Know her name.
@jessamyn "more dangerous than a thousand rioters!"
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She was prolific: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/category/author/lucy-e-parsons
She spoke at the founding meeting of the IWW in 1905:
"My conception of the strike of the future is not to strike and go out an starve, but to strike and remain in and take possession of the necessary property of production..."
#LucyParsons #AlbertParsons #MayDay #IWW #anarchism #anarchist #socialism #InternationalWorkersDay
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