Mary "Mother" Jones
Born May 1, 1830
County Cork, Ireland
Died November 30, 1930
Silver Spring, Maryland
Fierce advocate for the rights of working people, especially coal miners
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Born May 1, 1830 Cork, Ireland Died November 30, 1930 Silver Springs, Maryland
Labor organizer
As a child of Irish rebels, Mary Harris “Mother” Jon...
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Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1830-1930) was an Irish immigrant who devoted her life to improving conditions of the working class. A vagabond agitator, she worked primarily among miners, supporting thei...
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I was born in the city of Cork, Ireland, in 1830. My people were poor. For many years they had fought for Ireland's freedom. Many of my folks had died in that struggle. My father, Richard Harris, came...
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“I think my bureau will be almost as big as the Time magazine bureau,” David Corn was telling The Observer on Monday afternoon, a kid-in-a-candy-store excitement in his voice. That morn...
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Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Hayes will be The Nation's new DC bureau editor, according to a memo sent to staff this afternoon.Mr. Hayes, who has spent the last year contributing regularly to...
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Four years after her CIA cover was blown in a newspaper column, Valerie Plame is settling scores with the Bush administration, Republican lawmakers and the journalists involved in the White House l...
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MANCHESTER, N.H.—Twelve-story buildings qualify as skyscrapers here, so when you come into town, the Radisson on Elm Street is one of the first things you see.
It’s the hotel where NBC...
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SPOOK COUNTRYBy William Gibson Putnam, 371 pages, $25.95
By setting his new novel in the recent past—just as he did in Pattern Recognition (2003)—William Gibson once again suggests that...
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In accepting the Grammy Award for best single in 2001, U2 lead singer Bono made it clear the band still had grand ambitions even though critics had written it off in the past. U2, he said, was reap...
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—Gabriel Sherman
ERIK WEMPLE HIRED TO LEAD THE VILLAGE VOICE
Village Voice Media is pleased to announce that Erik Wemple will become the new editor-in-chief of the Village Voice. He will t...
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A good exposé is irresistible, especially if it reveals the ugly side of something pretty and bursts some bubbles in the process. See The Devil Wears Prada, in which the glitzy world of fashio...
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Jones, Mary "Mother"
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Mary Harris Jones
A Biography of Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones)
Mother Jones Lures David Corn From The Nation
