Mother Jones Talk led by Tammy Pike
Following the deaths of her family from yellow fever in 1867 and the destruction of her dressmaker business in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, Mary G. Harris Jones became a labor leader, organizer and activist. She led a national movement to better the lives of hard-working people by securing bans on child labor and co-founding the radical Industrial Workers of the World. By 1902, she was labeled “the most dangerous woman in America” because of her successes in organizing protest marches by men, women and even children. Jones assumed the persona of “Mother Jones” by wearing outdated black dresses, referring to the male workers she helped as “her boys,” and claiming to be older than her 60 years.
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