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Article: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
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- The Progressive
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- September 1, 2001
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. Gorn Hill and Wang, 2001. 394 pages. $27.00.
She was an unlikely candidate to become America's most famous radical labor organizer. In 1867, Mary Harris Jones was a thirty-year-old former schoolteacher, married with four children, living in a rundown Irish Catholic neighborhood in Memphis. That summer, everything changed when her husband and all of her children died in a devastating yellow fever epidemic. Sometime later, she started going to union meetings. By the end of the century, she had transformed herself into one of the most compelling figures in American history. Still dressed in the black ...