Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a labor leader known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She was lionized as a free-thinking "rebel woman" by admirers.
Goldman was imprisoned several times for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, she founded the journal Mother Earth.
In 1917, Goldman was sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested – with hundreds of others – and deported to Russia. Initially supportive of that country's Bolshevik revolution, Goldman quickly voiced her opposition to the Soviet use of violence and the repression of independent voices. In 1923, she wrote a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. While living in England, Canada, and France, she wrote an autobiography called Living My Life, and eventually traveled to Spain to participate in that nation's civil war. She died in Toronto on 14 May 1940.
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