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Born in Texas (likely as a slave) to parents of Native American, Black American and Mexican ancestry. In 1871 she married Albert
Parsons, a former Confederate soldier, and both were forced to flee from Texas north to Chicago because of the intolerance caused by their interracial marriage.
Lucy Parsons and her husband had become highly effective organizers primarily in the labor movement in the late 19th Century. In
1886, her husband Albert, who had been heavily involved in the labor movement for the eight hour day, was arrested and executed by the state of Illinois on charges
that he had conspired in the Haymarket Riot.
Then, in 1905, she participated in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, and began editing the Liberator, the union's
paper in Chicago. Lucy's focus shifted somewhat to class struggles around poverty and unemployment, when she organized the Chicago Hunger Demonstrations in January
1915.
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Edgar Daniel Nixon was born in M
