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Edelsohn (nickname Becky) (b. ca. 1891–1973) New York anarchist militant. Edelsohn lived at EG's home when she was a teenager. She was in her early teens when AB was released from prison and was one of the few people he felt comfortable with. She helped AB rehabilitate himself and became his
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where she refused to accept any nourishment other than water. In a letter smuggled to
Alexander Berkman, she wrote, "I am still sticking to my programme, having fasted over twenty-seven days. I am very weak." This letter prompted Edelsohn's friends to raise the $ 300 necessary to post a bond for her
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Police interference yesterday with a meeting in
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on Labor Day 1908, with AB, for defending Ben
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A black flag was flying, and Becky
Edelsohn was marching arm in arm with Charles Plunkett. She was a tremendously fiery person, always two steps ahead of Berkman or Goldman. She called for the immediate destruction of the capitalist system — a real propaganda-of-the-deedist! She was famous for her
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a "multi-murderer". The demonstrators rejected legal counsel and furiously pleaded their own defense, with
Edelsohn at the forefront of the group. She denounced the charges as politically motivated, and scornfully dismissed the court as illegitimate: "This town is owned by John D. Rockefeller. We
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red stockings, which she was wearing that day. We marched up Fifth Avenue from Union Square to 107th Street. At Fifty-Ninth Street a black limousine was crossing and stopped momentarily for the crowd. Becky opened the door and spat in the face of the plutocrats.
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Becky
Edelson, in the fifty-second hour of her hunger strike, underwent a slight change of disposition yesterday afternoon. Her rebellious mood softened. She greeted kindly Dr. Anna Hubert, whom she treated with scorn on her arrival on
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on Monday morning, and when Dr. Hubert renewed her proposal that Miss
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was an anarchist, their arrests helped bring AB back into political activity. She was arrested again at an
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