Prison bars do not frighten when
one has truth and right
deep in the heart.
-Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday January 2, 1907
New York, New York – Miss Elizabeth Flynn, “Daughter of the Reds”
The story of the amazing schoolgirl orator, arrested last August for street speaking beneath the Red Flag, was published in newspapers across the nation in the days folowing her arrest and for months thereafter. The following article was published in several newspapers from New Jersey to Kansas and even down south in Louisiana.
From Pennsylvania’s Cameron County Press of October 25, 1906:
From the New York Evening World of August 23, 1906:
From The New York Times of August 23, 1906:
RED FLAG IN BROADWAY CAUSES FIVE ARRESTS
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It Was Displayed Over Two
American Flags.
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THEATREGOERS ARE ANGRY
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Sixteen-Year-Old Girl, a Young Woman,
and Three Men Arrested at
Open-Air Meeting.The displaying of a red flag over two American flags was the cause of the arrest of five persons who were conducting an open-air Socialist meeting last night at Thirty-eighth Street and Broadway. The red flag excited the indignation of several men in evening clothes who had just come out of a theatre….
From Pittsburgh Gazette Times of November 18, 1916:
SOURCES & IMAGES
Cameron County Press
(Emporium, Pennsylvania)
-Oct 25, 1906
EGF, Socialist Schoolgirl, Article
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83032040/1906-10-25/ed-1/seq-3/
The Evening World
(New York, New York)
-August 23, 1906
EGF, In court for street speaking
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030193/1906-08-23/ed-1/seq-3/
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Aug 23, 1906
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9801E1D71F3DE633A25750C2A96E9C946797D6CF&legacy=true
The Gazette Times
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
-Nov 18, 1906
EGF, Famous Girl Socialist Speaking in NYC
https://www.newspapers.com/image/85930299/
See also:
The Rebel Girl: an autobiography,
my first life (1906-1926).
-by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
International Publishers, 1973
See page 54 for mention of “fussy old man, E. S. Egerton,
who had charge of…these lectures at night.”
See page 75 for mention of Sam Stodel.
https://books.google.com/books?id=TK2y0I-E9EkC
The Rebel Girl – Hazel Dickens
Lyrics by Joe Hill and Hazel Dickens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Girl