Dyer Lum
Labor activist and poet (1839-1893) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 54
Dyer Daniel Lum was an American labor activist, economist and political journalist. He was a leading figure in the American anarchist movement of the 1880s and early 1890s, working within the organized labor movement and together with individualist theorists.
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Illustration of the bombing during the Haymarket affair
Illustrations of the Haymarket martyrs
Voltairine de Cleyre, the young anarchist with whom Lum had a relationship during the late 1880s and early 1890s
Illustration of Alexander Berkman's attempted assassination of Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead strikeAbout this person
Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1839 to 1893 · aged 54
