A Chicago Suburb Where the Local Community Had Had a Reputation for Violence on the Street

 155 Years Ago Today

Saturday 17th of November 1866
Anarchist writer and feminist Voltairine de Cleyre is born in Leslie, Michigan, United States.

In 1889 she moved to Chicago, where she lived for most of her life until she met a young woman and wrote an article about her life in Chicago. Upon entering school in 1907 she became the school teacher and became a member of the group called New Students. She left the teacher's guild in the late 19th century, but was never again called upon to teach at public schools. Judith Keckham.
Anarchist author Judith Keckham and one of her first friends was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and also the first in her profession to become editor of The Spectator, a local newspaper which she served for 27 years before leaving the paper and becoming a writer. Judith was the first to post a note of resignation on the publication house's door door asking for a statement of resignation. Keckham, who is of Russian immigrant background, grew up in a Chicago suburb where the local community had had a reputation for violence on the street. She was an active member of the Socialist Party-dominated Illinois Civil Rights Commission, which worked with its members and which eventually gave life to the Civil Liberties Union and worked with the Illinois Freedom Party. Judith was a member of the Central Park Freedom League; a group of young left-wing activists led by one.