August 7 - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn is Born

Labor History in 2:00 · Aug 7, 2026 · 1m

On this day in Labor History the year was 1890. That was the day that one of the heroines of the US labor movement, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Elizabeth learned her progressive politics at a young age. Her father was a socialist and her mother was a feminist