Leon Czolgosz
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Leon Frank Czolgosz was an American wireworker and anarchist who assassinated United States president William McKinley in 1901. Czolgosz had lost his job during the economic Panic of 1893 and turned t
Czolgosz in 1899
Drawing by T. Dart Walker depicting Czolgosz shooting McKinley
The revolver used to shoot McKinley
Czolgosz's police mugshot, September 7, 1901
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in t
Leon Czolgosz
…bought a 50-acre (20 ha) farm the year before in Warrensville, Ohio. Czolgosz became a recluse. He was impressed after hearing a speech by the anarchist Emma Goldman, whom Czolgosz met for the first time at one of her lectures in Cleveland in May 1901. After the lecture, Czolgosz approached the speakers' platform…
Goldman, c. 1911
Emma Goldman's family in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1882. From left to right: Emma, standing; Helena, seated, with Moishe on her lap; Taube; Herman; Abraham.
Emma Goldman in 1886
Goldman enjoyed a decades-long relationship with her lover Alexander Berkman. Photo c. 1917–1919.