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Dangerous Women exhibit -St. Louis July 5, 2022-Jan 7, 2023

Tue, Jul 05

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St. Louis Public Library

They faced jail and death to challenge power on behalf of workers’ rights. Exhibit is open during St. Louis Pulbic library Carnegie Room hours-check slpl.org for hours before visiting.

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Dangerous Women exhibit -St. Louis July 5, 2022-Jan 7, 2023
Dangerous Women exhibit -St. Louis July 5, 2022-Jan 7, 2023

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Jul 05, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT – Jan 07, 2023, 7:00 PM CST

St. Louis Public Library, 1301 Olive St, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA

About the Event

This is a free (no tickets required) exhibit entitled Dangerous Women: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones and Frances "Fannie" Sellins.  At the Carnegie Room in the St. Louis Public Library from July 5, 2022 to January 6, 2023. 

They were two women from Irish immigrant families who sought to build a multi-ethnic working class movement. 

They faced jail and death to challenge power on behalf of workers’ rights. They wanted women to be at the heart of the movement to transform society.

In St. Louis women were among the most exploited workers, and industries grew wealthy on their labor.

Those with power inflamed divisions between men and women, immigrants and native workers,  black and white, to increase profits and maintain the existing power structure.

Jones and Sellins were dangerous because they defied the police, the politicians, the bosses, the judges who told them to stay in their place. They sought to…

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