Lucy Parsons fought hard to get her husband freed and exonerated for the Haymarket bombing. Despite the fact that he wasn't even in Haymarket Square the day of the bombing, he was still wrongly convicted and executed along with 3 other innocent anarchists. They had been fighting for the 8 hour workday. Their struggle, and their execution, are the basis for why May 1 is celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world (except the U.S.). Lucy Parsons, was an African American and indigenous anarchist, would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Eugene Debs, James Connolly, Big Bill Haywood, and others.

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