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Women's History Month Featured Leader: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones

3/17/2018

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In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.
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Today we’re celebrating:
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones

Labor agitator (1830 – 1930)
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  • Born in County Cork, Ireland and emigrated to the United States as a child
  • Became a labor organizer after her husband and children died of yellow fever and losing her dressmaking business in the Chicago fire
  • A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, Jones traveled to organize garment workers, steelworkers, and miners
  • Child labor abolitionist who led a march of child textile workers to Theodore Roosevelt’s home in 1903
  • Motto: “Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living”
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