Alexander Berkman
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Alexander Berkman was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing.
Berkman c. 1910s
Berkman in 1892
Berkman's attempt to assassinate Frick, as illustrated by W. P. Snyder for Harper's Weekly in 1892
Berkman's portrait, July 24, 1892
Henry Clay Frick
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Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron. He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, and later became chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company. Fri
Alexander Berkman
…friend of anarchist Emma Goldman. In 1892, undertaking an act of propaganda of the deed, Berkman made a failed attempt to assassinate businessman Henry Clay Frick during the Homestead strike, for which he served 14 years in prison. His experience in prison was the basis of his first book, Prison Memoirs of an…
Henry Clay Frick
Frick's letter to Carnegie, describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead
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