Jones, Mother (Mary) (1830–1930)

Mother Jones, or Mary Jones, was one of most famous American labor leaders/speakers of all time. Her fiery rhetoric, sometimes peppered with profanity, inspired American miners and their wives to unionize and strike in the face of great obstacles and hardships. ...

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