The state removed the educational marker after Concord Republicans complained about Elizabeth Gurley Flynn's communist ties.
In 1906, Flynn gave her first formal speech to an adult audience that included her parents at a Harlem socialist club in New York about “the status of women, who were then considered inferior and treated as such in every walk of life,” according to her autobiography.
During her life’s work for the feminist cause, Flynn backed women’s voting rights, equal pay for equal work — a radical idea at the time — and expanded college education for women. She advocated birth control, working with Margaret Sanger. Flynn also became a champion for unskilled immigrant laborers, joining the more-militant Industrial Workers of the World union. Itfrom the American Federation of Labor, whose members were mostly skilled White men. She organized miners in the west, and agitated workers in Massachusetts during the 1912 Lawrence textile strike as well as silk workers in New Jersey a year later.“Her feminist side is just as important as her labor side. Both of them got her into immense amounts of trouble.
Flynn’s activism and association with the IWW consistently drew attention from law enforcement, resulting in multiple arrests starting in 1906. In 1917, as the United States entered World War I, she was arrested for allegedly defying “at least 24 laws,” including the Espionage Act, due in part to her IWW activism, according to a
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