Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:32:14 -0700
Subject: Daily Bleed: 6/20 Albert Parsons, Voltairine de Cleyre, Nicolas Faucier


Excerpts from today's Daily Bleed:

1782 -- The United States chooses the Eagle as it's symbol.
A pig was proposed & seriously considered.

1848 -- Albert Parsons lives, Montgomery, Alabama
(some sources say the 24th) American anarchist,
Haymarket Martyr, husband of Lucy Parsons,
wrongly executed by the government.

1887 -- Dadaist master Kurt Schwitters lives, Hanover, Germany.

1905 -- Lillian Hellman lives (1905-1984), New Orleans.
American playwright/memoirist. Had lifelong
relationship with mystery writer Dashiell Hammett until his death
(1961).
Both were attacked during McCarthy/HUAC witchhunts.

1912 -- Voltairine de Cleyre dies, age 45, following a long illness.
The original anarchist-feminist, & teacher of newly arrived immigrants.

1943 -- Striking African American auto workers attacked by
National Workers League, KKK & armed white workers at Detroit's
Bell Isle amusement park, 34 people killed, 1,300 arrested in race
riots.

-- auntiecopyrite 2000 & shortly thereafter

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