MOTHER JONES by Daniela Pimienta https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss en-us 2023-03-10 14:04:18 UTC 2023-03-13 21:24:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Mother Jones dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2511884825 -Her full name was Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones.]]> 2023-03-10 14:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2511884825 OTHER FACTS dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2514521886 -She was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.

-Born May 1, 1830, Cork, Ireland—died November 30, 1930, Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.

-She was a labor organizer, widely known in the United States as a fiery agitator for the union rights of coal miners and other workers.
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-The rock of Mother Jones' faith was her conviction that working Americans acting together must free themselves from poverty and powerlessness. She believed in the need for citizens of a democracy to participate in public affairs.



]]> 2023-03-13 20:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515004464 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515005195 QUOTES:]]> 2023-03-13 20:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515005195 Backround Information: dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515012142 Mary Harris Jones lived through many hardships including famine, epidemics, fire, and poverty, but she only got stronger and more independent. 

Her family emigrated to Canada where her illiterate parents made an unusual effort to keep her in school until she was seventeen years old. 

Jones had her first experience with labor unions when she moved to Memphis to marry George Jones, who was a factory worker. As the yellow fever epidemic spread through Tennessee, her husband and four children died, and she left the Irish and African American strikers of Memphis for Chicago. 

Due to the large number of laborers working in horrible conditions in Illinois in the late eighteen hundreds, many strikes occurred, several of which were started by the motivated and independent Mary Harris Jones. In this way, becoming an active member of the community and earning her fame.]]> 2023-03-13 20:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515012142 1894-1897 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515022297 Jones becomes known as an activist during the Pullman strikes.]]> 2023-03-13 20:32:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515022297 July 1897 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515023829 She visits President Mckinley to advocate on behalf of S.D. Worden in connection to his murder conviction during the Pullman Strikes.]]> 2023-03-13 20:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515023829 August 1897 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515025066 Jones travels to Alleghany County. Pennsylvania to support coal strikers there.]]> 2023-03-13 20:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515025066 1901-1902 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515025710 Jones supports striking silk workers in Scranton, Pennsylvania and Paterson, New Jersey.
(In 1902 Jones is arrested in Virginia)]]> 2023-03-13 20:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515025710 July 1903 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515026844 Jones organizes and marches from Pennsylvania to New York with striking mill children to call attention to their plight.]]> 2023-03-13 20:37:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515026844 1904 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515027323 Jones Joins strikers in Colorado, Utah, New York, and Chicago.]]> 2023-03-13 20:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515027323 1907 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515028162 Jones supports striking telegram workers and encourages women to desert sweethearts who return to work before the strike is over.]]> 2023-03-13 20:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515028162 1912-1913 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515042206 Jones returns to west Virginia and in february 1913, she is arrested on complicity in murder charges. After being released, she joins strikers in Colorado and condemns the suffrage movement.]]> 2023-03-13 20:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515042206 1914-1916 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515042966 While in Colorado, she witnesses the Ludlow Massacre, orchestrated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

(In 1916 Jones and Rockefeller Jr. both appeal for clemency for a life inmate imprisoned as a result of the Ludlow Massacre.)]]> 2023-03-13 20:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515042966 1918 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515044215 Jones tells union members in West Virginia to keep digging for the war effort.]]> 2023-03-13 20:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515044215 1919 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515045019 Jones is arrested while speaking to steel workers in Homestead, PA.]]> 2023-03-13 20:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515045019 1922 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515045354 Jones is in Mingo County. West Virginia in the events that would lead up to the Battle of Blair Mountain]]> 2023-03-13 21:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515045354 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046082 2023-03-13 21:01:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046082 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046546 2023-03-13 21:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046546 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046790 2023-03-13 21:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515046790 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515048314 “I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser. ”
― Mother Jones


]]> 2023-03-13 21:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515048314 “Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.”― Mother Jones dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515048606 2023-03-13 21:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515048606 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515050575 “No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.”

― Mother Jones


]]> 2023-03-13 21:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515050575 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515051013 “I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”
― Mother Jones


]]> 2023-03-13 21:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515051013 “I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.”― Mother Jones dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515051326 2023-03-13 21:08:15 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515051326 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515052202 2023-03-13 21:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515052202 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515053852 2023-03-13 21:11:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515053852 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515055992 2023-03-13 21:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515055992 Her Key Traits: dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515057628 Jones rose to prominence as a fiery orator and fearless organizer for the Mine Workers during the first two decades of the 20th century. Her voice had great carrying power. Her energy and passion inspired men half her age into action and compelled their wives and daughters to join in the struggle.]]> 2023-03-13 21:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515057628 QUOTES ABOUT HER BY OTHERS dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515058325 2023-03-13 21:17:32 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515058325 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515059476 2023-03-13 21:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515059476 Working Women's History Project Award dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515060115 A MOTHER JONES AWARD]]> 2023-03-13 21:19:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515060115 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515061246 2023-03-13 21:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515061246 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515061942 2023-03-13 21:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515061942 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515062678 2023-03-13 21:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515062678 dpimi001 https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515063400 2023-03-13 21:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dpimi001/w3l1n2g7s49ihwss/wish/2515063400