Word: kershner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...