After their release from prison, they were arrested-along with 248 others-in the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare and deported to Russia. In 1917, Goldman and fellow anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the newly-instated draft. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues. Born in present-day Lithuania to a Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer.
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