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Back in the days when women, lumped together with criminals and the insane, were disenfranchised and mounted police rode down legal pickets, bonds were formed between the growing women's movement and expanding labor movements. After 1900, nationalist-progressive policies threatened the ordered society. The career of Florence Luscomb, who suceeded radical feminists such as Charlotte Gilman, Jane Addams and Alice Paul, was closely intertwined with both movements. Luscomb has devoted most of her life to jabbing plump and comfortable consciences. She began campaigning for votes for women before World War I, and continued to do so even after...
...citizens of Everett were no more amused with the actions of the law than the strikers had been. But the workers' protest came sooner. That evening they got in touch with Luscomb and Sara DuPont, known as champions of progressive causes since before historians dignified those years as an "era." Luscomb and DuPont had shared the days when advocating reform often meant speaking from soapboxes to mangy dogs and small boys on universal suffrage, civil rights for Americans of every race and color, and the claim each man or woman had to earning a decent wage...
...will be Margaret Furnham, the defense attorney for Angela Davis and Ella Ellison, whose topic will be "Rape, Racism, and Criminal Justice." On Jan 30 Maxine Klein, director of the plays "Tania" and "Fan-shen" will give her thoughts on "Political Theater." And on Feb. 6, Florence Luscomb, who has worked actively in the field of women's rights for most of her life will speak on the occasion of her 90th birthday concerning her hopes "For a Second American Revolution...
...revolutionary fervor. Miss Luscomb lacks the sense of frustration that impels many of her younger colleagues to violence. She decries the recent tactic of Boston feminists, who took over a Harvard building tor rap sessions and judo lessons. "If they have a right to take over a Harvard building for their cause," she says, "then so do the John Birchers...
Even so doughty an activist as Miss Luscomb has to say no once in a while though. Soon she plans to withdraw temporarily from the commune and retire, as she does each summer, to the solitude of her one-room cabin in the New Hampshire woods. There she can light her kerosene lamp, read the Guardian and her books about Karl Marx, and look across her vegetable garden to nearby Mount Chocorua-a 3,475-ft. peak she scaled four years...