Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia. Severe economic hardship forced her to leave school at the age of thirteen and begin work in a factory in St. Petersburg. During her time in St. Petersburg, she ... changed and shaped, but never strayed too far from Anarchism. At the age of 19 she married a Russian immigrant but divorced him after 10 months. She then moved to New York and met Johann Most. He was the editor of a German Anarchist paper, he urged for the complete overthrow of Capitalism. She began traveling around holding lectures about Anarchism. She was ... ...

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