Albert Parsons
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican socialist and anarchist newspaper editor (1848-1887)
Albert Richard Parsons was an American left-wing newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War.
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Lucy Parsons, as she appeared in 1886.
Steel engraving of Albert R. Parsons used as a frontis piece for his 1889 memoir.
The front cover motif of Albert R. Parson's posthumously published memoirs featured the slogan of the French Revolution: "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity."
Albert Parsons (top left) and the six other prominent Chicago radicals initially condemned to death for the 1886 Haymarket bombing.
Mug shots of the four anarchists executed-and Louis Lingg, who committed suicide-taken by J. J. Kanberg at the Cook County Jail, May 3, 1887
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Albert Richard Parsons was an American left-wing newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist. As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War. After the war, he became an activist for the rights of former slaves, and later a Republican official during Reconstruction. With his wife Lucy Parsons, he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers. There he became interested in the rights of workers. In 1884, he began editing The Alarm newspaper. In 1887, Parsons was one of four Chicago radical leaders controversially convicted of conspiracy and hanged following a bomb attack on police remembered as the Haymarket affair.
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