MOTHER JONES

    
            
In the late 1800s prospects of a new worker/union militancy began to take form on several fronts. The AFL declared for women's suffrage (1890). The United Mine Workers of America (1890) began challengint the coal towns and their bosses.  Conditions in the Southern mountains created a unique and persistent way of life expressed by James Goode's poetry and photos. From those hills, Mother Jones (1830-1930--Mary Harris Jones--became the "Miners' Angel". Mary Harris Jones died in Silver Spring on November 30, 1930, seven months after her one-hundredth birthday. She was buried in the Union Miners Cemetery at Mount Olive, Illinois, in the coalfields of southern Illinois. Her grave is near those of the victims of the Virden, Illinois, mine riot of 1889.

For a short biography of Mother Jones: http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/majones.htm

For a review of the book "Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America" by Elliott Gorn http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa010430.htm