After their release from prison, they were arrested-along with hundreds of others-and deported to Russia. In 1917, Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. Although Frick survived the attempt on his life, Berkman was sentenced to twenty-two years in prison. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.īorn in Kovno in the Russian Empire (present-day Kaunas, Lithuania), Goldman emigrated to the US in 1885 and lived in New York City, where she joined the burgeoning anarchist movement.Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. Emma Goldman was a feminist anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches.
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