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I was looking at this picture of Bouck White being arrested on 05/10/1914:
And I noticed this woman on the left side of the picture. Her affect seemed "off." I'm going to look for her in other pictures. I'm wondering if she might be Jane Est. Just a hunch right now.
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What became of Jane Est? Her name just seems to disappear.
What happened to Jane Est's son, Louis?
Is Jane Est Jane Rolston? I don't think so because both were mentioned as being at an event described in this article.
Did Louise Berger come back to the U.S.?
Were women more involved with oration than men?
How organized where the demostrations? It is seeming to me that Marie Ganz, for example, was being sent to specifically cause a ruckus around Rockefeller. Where Becky Edelson seemed to speak to the broader issues of "free speech." I am not finding articles where they are both getting arrested at the same rallies.
What's the story behind Alfred Stieglitz photographing Becky in c. 1920.
John Crawford & Helen Rebecca Edelson married 11/28/1925
Free Silence Movement
Anti Militarist
Church of the Social Revolution (Bouck White)
Article described Arthur Caron as being Louise Berger's "sweetheart."
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Upton Sinclair made a point that I have similarly made: "the foreigner is the hope of the country. Americans will stand for anything these days, but the foreigner came here to secure liberty, and he will fight for it."
Becky Edelson was a member of my family. She was the sister of my grandfather Julius Edelson, who worked with Emma Goldman on Mother Earth in 1906.Simply put, all of the details of Becky's early life are incrrect. She had no brother Max or sister Dora. She was not born in Odessa, but rather in Riga. Some additional details on her family in Riga may be obtained by searching the history of the Artist Albert Abramowitz, who was Becky and my grandfather's first cousin who left Riga to study art in 1900 and ultimately came to Paris a few years afterwards and was well respected artist in P aris before emigrating to the uS in 1915 where he established himself as in artist first in California and then in New York. I would be happy to share more of what I know with you if you are still interested but find no way of contacting you. I can be reached at my email address at MIT, dhousman@mit.edu. Very best regards, David Housman
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