Sandwiched In with Ron Brown - Emma Goldman

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Adults
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Join Professor Ron Brown as he continues his series on Famous Women of New York with a presentation about Emma Goldman: The Mother of American Anarchism.  Fleeing the Jewish pogroms in Russian controlled Lithuania in 1885, Emma Goldman arrived along with millions of Russian Jews seeking a better life and freedom. However, New York City at that time was neither better nor little freer than Czarist Russia. The immigrants were dumped in fetid slums, exploited by brutal factory owners, discriminated against by earlier immigrants, and disdained by the Fifth Avenue Gilded families. The only answer was revolution. The mother of American anarchism set out to overthrow the government, assassinate the robber barons, and eliminate the myths of priests and rabbis.  Needless to say, she was arrented, imprisoned and expelled from the country.