After Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, Laura Villanueva joined the Women’s March in Chicago. While there, she caught sight of a banner that said “Lucy Gonzalez Parsons” and identified her as an organizer and labor leader from the turn of the 20th century. It led her to ask:

Who was Lucy Parsons?

I looked into it for WBEZ’s Curious City and I quickly realized that Parsons lived an amazing life, but tried to create confusion around her racial identity.

The Radical Existence Of Lucy Parsons, The ‘Goddess Of Anarchy’