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Lucy
1863–1935
British fashion designer and Titanic survivor (1863–1935)
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Biography
Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile.
Timeline
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Her husband Albert Parsons is among the anarchists arrested after the Haymarket bombing in Chicago. She organizes his defense, speaks at rallies, fundraises. It doesn't work. Albert is hanged on November 11, 1887.
Helps found the Industrial Workers of the World alongside Eugene Debs and Big Bill Haywood. She's the only woman on the stage at the founding convention. The Chicago police consider her "more dangerous than a thousand rioters."
Dies in a house fire in Chicago at about 84. Police arrive before firefighters and confiscate her personal library of over 1,500 books and papers. The FBI had been monitoring her for decades. The papers were never returned.
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It was Guatemala which finally convinced him of the necessity for armed struggle...
d through armed struggle and defended by an armed populace, was the only way to rectify conditions. Gadea wrote later, "It was Guatemala which finally convinced him of the necessity for armed struggle...
the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish ...
d from Ireland to the Río de la Plata Governorate. Referring to Che's "restless" nature, his father declared "the first thing to note is that in my son's veins flowed the blood of the Irish rebels"....
Che would talk about Ireland and all the guerilla warfare that had taken place t...
the Irish rebels". Che Guevara was fond of Ireland, and according to Irish actress Maureen O'Hara, "Che would talk about Ireland and all the guerilla warfare that had taken place there. He knew every...
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