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Title
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Lucy Parsons, Grave
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Biographical Text
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Rectangular stone grave marker of Lucy Parsons.
Parsons is buried in the Forest Home Cemetery, located in Forest Park Illinois. She spent her life advocating for the working class individuals of Chicago alongside her husband, Albert Parsons. After his death in 1887, she continued working as a labor advocate for half a decade. Parsons passed away in a house fire on International Women's Day in 1942.
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Text
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LUCY PARSONS
1859 - 1942
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Date Created
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1942
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Type
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English
Grave
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Bibliographic Citation
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"Lucy Parsons Carried Out Bequest of Her Husband, A Hero of American Labor," The Daily Worker. Mar. 11, 1942.
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"Lucy Parsons: Tribute To a Heroine of Labor," The Daily Worker. Mar. 11, 1942.
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Lucy Parsons, Find a Grave
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Project Researcher
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O'Neill, Iris
Parsons, Lucy (1851-1942)