| IWW Poster (IWW/Political Posters) |
By Dolores Delgado Campbell
Many Mexican-American/Chicana women have been involved in labor organizing, but their activities have not been well documented by a white, male dominated history profession. One such leader was Lucia Gonzalez Parsons.
Lucia Gonzalez Parsons was born in Johnson County Texas in 1852, and married Albert R. Parsons in 1871. During her lifetime Lucia was a seamstress, a wife, a mother of two-children, a socialist, a labor organizer and a writer.
She was an editor and a contributor to the Alarm, the paper of the Working Peoples Association. Along with her husband Albert Parsons, (the Haymarket Square martyr) she was active in radical politics in Chicago. She wrote articles, made stirring speeches, and led numerous protests for workers’ rights in the struggle for the eight-hour day.
Source: The Legend of Lucy Parsons
