Albert Parsons

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Albert Parsons was a prominent 19th-century American anarchist and labor activist who became one of the most famous defendants executed after the Haymarket affair in Chicago.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf anarchist
human
journalist
labor activist
political activist
printer
trade unionist
advocatedFor anarchist communism
eight-hour workday
workers' rights
affiliation International Working People's Association
Knights of Labor
causeOfDeath execution by hanging
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
ethnicGroup American
familyName Parsons
fieldOfWork labor organizing
radical journalism
genre political writing
givenName Albert
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
mannerOfDeath capital punishment
movement anarchism
eight-hour day movement
labor movement
name Albert Parsons
notableEvent Haymarket affair
notableFor being executed after the Haymarket affair
leadership in the Chicago anarchist movement
notableRole Haymarket defendant
editor of The Alarm
notableWork The Alarm (anarchist newspaper)
occupation anarchist
journalist
labor organizer
typesetter
participantIn American labor movement
Haymarket affair trial
placeOfDeath Chicago, Illinois, United States
placeOfDetention Cook County Jail
politicalIdeology anarchism
socialism
residence Chicago, Illinois, United States
Texas, United States
sexOrGender male
spouse Lucy Parsons
workLocation Chicago, Illinois, United States
Texas, United States


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