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About Mother Jones
Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones (1837 – 30 November 1930) was an Irish-American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent labor and community organizer. She then helped coordinate major strikes and co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World.
Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867, and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. From 1897, at around 60 years of age, she was known as Mother Jones. In 1902 she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. In 1903, upset about the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a Children's March from Philadelphia to the home of then president Theodore Roosevelt in New York. Mother Jones magazine, established in 1970, is named for her.
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Mother Jones's Timeline
| 1837 |
May 1, 1837
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Cork City, Ireland
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August 1, 1837
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Cork City, Ireland
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| 1862 |
1862
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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
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| 1865 |
1865
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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
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| 1867 |
1867
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Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, United States
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| 1930 |
November 30, 1930
Age 93
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Adelphi, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States
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Union Miners Cemetery , Mount Olive, Illinois
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