Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman was a very interesting character to hear about in Ragtime. I really just wanted to know some interesting things about her that werent in the story, because she was an anarchist. Emma was born in Kaunas Lithuania, and lived from 1869- 1940. She was known all over for her speeches and writings. Her nickname was Red Emma. She grew up in a jewish family and had a father who tried to marry her off at the age of 15. She refused though and did not do it. At the age of seventeen she got shipped to the U.S with her half sister, soon to find out America is not all its shaped up to be if your jewish. Goldman was widely believed by the authorities to have been involved in the planning stages of the Frick assassination attempt, but Berkman and the other conspirators refused to give evidence against her, and she was not charged in the indictment. Emma went to prison in 1893 for telling unemployed workers to tell people to give them work, and if they said no then ask them for bread. Then she told them if they said no to giving thme bread, take it anyways. She later in her life during the year of 1916 found herself right back in prison because she was distributing birth control literature. then in 1917 she went back for a final time for trying to obstruct the draft of world war one. Emma Goldman was an intersting, and very powerful lady. She has been in trouble more times than one can count , but the more she got in trouble the more stuff she rebelled against. Emma was a very intersting character in the book, and thats why I chose to figure a few things out about her. I got all of my information from, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman.