caption death_date death_place birth_place image_size birth_date spouse image article_title name occupation
parsons in 1920 07 march 1942 chicago , illinois , us texas , us 200px 1853 -lrb- ? -rrb- albert parsons lucy parsons.1920.jpg lucy parsons
 lucy eldine gonzalez parsons labor organizer
lucy parsons

lucy eldine gonzalez parsons -lrb- c. 1853 -- march 7 , 1942 -rrb- was an american labor organizer , radical socialist and anarchist communist .
she is remembered as a powerful orator .
parsons entered the radical movement following her marriage to newspaper editor albert parsons and moved with him from texas to chicago , where she contributed to the newspaper he famously edited , `` the alarm . ''
following her husband 's 1887 execution in conjunction with the haymarket affair , parsons remained a leading american radical activist as a member of the industrial workers of the world and other political organizations .
