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Boston's Florence Luscomb is the very model of a modern revolutionary. Last spring she stood shoulder to shoulder on a Moratorium Day platform with Abbie Hoffman and the Black Panthers. Only a month ago she was marching in Cambridge to protest the Government's treatment of Angela Davis. Only last week she delivered the welcoming address to a feminist rally on Boston Common and she is slated at the Washington antiwar rally on April 24. An ardent Women's Liberationist, she makes frequent speaking appearances at high schools and colleges, arguing for abortion on demand...
...Miss Luscomb also favors "cooperative living" and indeed lives in a Cambridge commune with seven other women and men. None of this activity would be very unusual were it not for the fact that Florence Luscomb...
...Miss Luscomb is hardly a Jenny-come-lately to the barricades, a dotty old lady off on a senile lark. Her present politics and life-style are merely extensions of a lifelong devotion to progressive causes, and she conducts her activist's life with grace and dignity. The commune-or "co-op," as the residents prefer to call it-is quiet and orderly; each member has his or her own room and is free to come and go at will. Says Michael Widmer, 32, a Boston journalist and founder of the commune: "At first we were kind of surprised...
Shrewd Sense. After women gained the vote in 1920 Miss Luscomb became a charter member of the League of Women Voters. She cast her first presidential ballot in 1920 for Socialist Candidate Eugene Debs. Soon she was involved in the labor movement, inspecting the shops operated by the garment trade. Miss Luscomb's shrewd sense of revolutionary tactics-which are still being copied by her spiritual descendants- helped rectify dismal working conditions. "I got four women who were distinguished Bostonians to go to the factories with me. When the newspapers printed their report, believe me, the state officials came...
...remember when the law stated that 'husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband,'" Luscomb said. "And up until 1920 the only Americans denied a vote were criminals, the insane, and women. We didn't like the company we were...