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On this day October 04, 1893

Emma Goldman's incitement-to-riot trial begins in NYC

Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist writer, editor, and orator who emigrated to the United States in 1885 and became one of the most influential and most prosecuted radicals in American history....
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Jewish anarchist immigrant Emma Goldman began her trial in NYC. Found guilty of incitement to riot, she was sent to Manhattan's city prison and later sentenced to a year in Blackwell's Island Penitentiary.

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