Correspondence of Mother Jones
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Jones, Mother, 1837-1930
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Union activist Mother Jones was born Mary Harris in Ireland and immigrated to the United States. She was a school teacher and married George Jones and had four children. By 1867, Jones had lost her family to a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the 1870s, "Mother" Jones began her long involvement in the labor struggle, by participating in various strikes such as the Pittsburgh Labor Riots (1877), the Western Virginia Anthracite Coal Strike (1902), and the Colorado Coal Field and A...
