215,950 profiles ranked

Mary Harris Jones

Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837-1930) · United States · Writers · Lived 1830 to 1930 · aged 100

Mary Harris Jones is read about 343 times a day, in 60 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 28 October 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

A district attorney called her "the most dangerous woman in America" in 1902 - not for bombs or crime, but for teaching miners' wives how to shame strikebreakers and mobilizing children to march on a president's doorstep.

ActivistsWriter / AuthorLiteratureActivism19th Century

A life in dates

1930Died30 November 19301920“If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire?”In their words15 August 1920Speech in Princeton, WV. (15 August 1920)

“The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.”In their words20 June 1920Speech in Williamson, WV. (20 June 1920)

1919“I don't care about political parties. I went down to the Greenback parties, to the Populist party, in fact I went through them all.”In their words6 April 1919Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 6 April 1919. The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones, Edited by Edward M. Steel

“Look at this watch of mine. Two hands there, nice looking, but let me take the hands out and it will be no good.”In their words6 April 1919Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 6 April 1919. The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones, Edited by Edward M. Steel

1903“And why were these things done?”In their wordsRegarding the military violence against the miners in the 1903 Cripple Creek strike, part of the Colorado Labor Wars.

1830Born1 May 1830

Also in Deutsch

Photos 8

Mother Jones no. 3Mother Jones no. 3"Mother" Jones (no.) 3 LCCN2005690040"Mother" Jones (no.) 3 LCCN2005690040"Mother" Jones - -1 LCCN2004672082"Mother" Jones - -1 LCCN2004672082"Mother" Jones - -2 LCCN2005688160"Mother" Jones - -2 LCCN2005688160"Mother" Jones and her army of striking textile workers starting out for their descent on New York The textile workers of Philadelphia say they intend to show the people of the country their LCCN2015649893"Mother" Jones and her army of striking textile workers starting out for their descent on New York The textile workers of Philadelphia say they intend to show the people of the country their LCCN2015649893"Mourn the dead - Fight Like Hell for the living" Mary Harris Jones (53334981354)"Mourn the dead - Fight Like Hell for the living" Mary Harris Jones (53334981354)Mother Jones -- no 1Mother Jones -- no 1Mother Jones 1902-11-04Mother Jones 1902-11-04

In their own words 10

,
Mary Harris Jones
,
10 statements, newest first

  1. If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire?

    Aug 15, 1920, Speech in Princeton, WV. (15 August 1920), Own words

  2. The old condition is passing away. The new dawn of another civilized nation is breaking into the lives of the human race.

    Jun 20, 1920, Speech in Williamson, WV. (20 June 1920), Own words

  3. I don't care about political parties. I went down to the Greenback parties, to the Populist party, in fact I went through them all.

    Apr 6, 1919, Speech in Peoria, Illinois, 6 April 1919. The Speeches and Writings of Mother Jones, Edited by Edward M. Steel, Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Awards

Labor Hall of Honor1992
National Women's Hall of Fame1984

About this person

Mary Harris Jones taught school and sewed dresses until yellow fever killed her husband and four children in 1867. Four years later the Great Chicago Fire burned her shop to the ground. She turned to labor organizing, working first with the Knights of Labor and then the United Mine Workers, and by the 1890s had taken the name Mother Jones. She coordinated major strikes, stood with miners' families against owners, and helped co-found the Industrial Workers of the World. In 1903, angry that Pennsylvania's child labor laws went unenforced in the mines and mills, she led a children's march from Philadelphia to Theodore Roosevelt's New York home. She died in 1930.

Country
United States
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1830 to 1930 · aged 100

Writers from the United States 6

E. B. White61.5MacKenzie Scott61.5John Strelecky61.5Lillian Hellman61.5Svetlana Alliluyeva61.5Wilma Mankiller61.3

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.