"Before 1908 and since, American women have made lasting contributions in the struggle for social progress: against slavery and Negro oppression, for equal rights for women and women's suffrage, against capitalist exploitation, for peace and for Socialism...The present-day struggles of progressive and Communist women merge with the traditions and contributions of such great anti-slavery fighters as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth, of such militant women proletarians as the textile workers of 1848, of such women pioneers as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, of such builders of America's progressive and working class heritages as Kate Richards O'Hare, Mother Jones, Ella Reeve Bloor, Anita Whitney and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn."
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1950 article in ‘’Claudia Jones: Beyond Containment: Autobiographical Reflections, Essays, and Poems edited by Carole Boyce Davies (2010)
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Ella Reeve Bloor
Ella Reeve "Mother" Bloor (July 8, 1862 – August 10, 1951) was a long-time labor organizer and activist in the socialist and communist movements in the USA.
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