Albert Parsons, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Parsons

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Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1848

Place of Birth: Montgomery, Alabama, United States

Date of Death: 11-Nov-1887

Profession: journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Albert Richard Parsons (1848–1887) was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor, orator, and labor activist.
As a teenager, he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas, during the American Civil War.
After the war, he settled in Texas, and became an activist for the rights of former slaves, and later a Republican official during reconstruction.
With his wife Lucy Parsons, he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers.
There he became interested in the rights of workers.
In 1884, he began editing The Alarm newspaper.
Parsons was one of four Chicago radical leaders controversially convicted of conspiracy and hanged following a bomb attack on police remembered as the Haymarket affair.