Emma Goldman

Written by Steve Rhodes
Published April 12, 2004

Emma Goldman on the sidewalk in front of the Redstone Bldg. in San Francisco

American Experience's Emma Goldman airs Monday on many PBS stations. The 90 minute documentary chronicles her life and ideas - ideas she went to prison for and eventually was deported just for expressing.

In addition to the usual historians, writers Tony Kushner, Andrei Codrescu, E. L. Doctorow (who made her a character in Ragtime) are interviewed about Goldman.

After Goldman was deported, she spent two years in Russia. She became increasingly dissillusioned with the revolution and met with Lenin to argue for the importance of freedom of speech.

Emma Goldman poster on building at Church & Market in San Francisco

The website has an entire February, 1915 issue of Goldman's Mother Earth magazine online. There also are links to her speechs, writing, and interviews.

Steve Rhodes is a journalist and photographer in San Francisco.
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