Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ought to be a household name, given the decades she spent challenging an assortment of powerful forces, including big business, the police, politicians, and judges in her ...

Don’t know why, lately I’ve been picking on old, old Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, once called a “child wonder” but who now can appropriately be called an “old age wonder”. And it is a wonder that one ...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was one of the Industrial Workers of the World’s (IWW) most effective speakers and also one of the Communist Party USA’s most notable speakers. Her political life from the time ...

The Anaconda Standard called Elizabeth Gurley Flynn “the Joan of Arc of industrial unionism” during her week-long series of speeches in Butte in June 1909. The “girl orator” was 18 years old.