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DESCRIPTION:Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, a Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century by 
 Matilda Rabinowitz Presented by Robbin Legere Henderson.\n\n Matilda 
 Rabinowitz’s memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early 
 twentieth-century women. In Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman, Rabinowitz 
 describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the 
 intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought 
 political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. 
 Rabinowitz devoted herself to the notion that women should be entitled to 
 independence, equal rights, equal pay, and sexual and personal autonomy. 
 Rabinowitz (1887-1963) immigrated to the United States from Ukraine at the 
 age of thirteen. Radicalized by her experience in sweatshops, she became an 
 organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World from 1912 to 1917 before 
 choosing single motherhood in 1918. “Big Bill” Haywood once wrote, “a 
 book could be written about Matilda,” but her memoir was intended as a 
 private story for her grandchildren, Robbin Legere Henderson among them. 
 Henderson’s black-and-white scratchboard drawings illustrate 
 Robinowitz’s life in the Pale of Settlement, the journey to America, 
 political awakening and work as an organizer for the IWW, a turbulent 
 romance, and her struggle to support herself and her child. \nSee also:\n 
 http://www.thegreenarcade.com/ 
 \nhttp://www.laborfest.net/wp/event/immigrant-girl-radical-woman-a-memoir-from-the-early-twen-tieth-century-book-reading/\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/17/18815740.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Book Reading: Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman
LOCATION:Green Arcade Bookstore, 1680 Market St., San Francisco. Civic Center BART, 
 Van Ness Muni Metro station. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/17/18815740.php
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