Episode 17: Mary Harris Jones and Amber McLaughlin
Lynn tells us about Mary Harris Jones, one of the world’s top revolutionaries for leading the fight for workers' rights and certainly, the most famous female labor activist of the nineteenth century. Mary Harris Jones—aka “Mother Jones”—was a self-proclaimed “hell-raiser” in the cause of economic justice. She was so vociferous that a US attorney once labeled her “the most dangerous woman in America.”
Then Rose tells us about Amber McLaughlin who was the first openly transgender person to be put to death by execution in the U.S. Amber McLaughlin was convicted of stalking and killing a former girlfriend, then dumping her body near the Mississippi River in St. Louis.
Thank you to our sources!
Lynn got the information for her story from the following sources:
Industrial Workers of the World
https://archive.iww.org/history/library/MotherJones/autobiography/
Mary Harris Jones | National Women's History Museum
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mary-harris-jones
Photo of Mother Jones
https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MotherJones.jpg
Photo of Mother Jones (2)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Mother_Jones_1902-11-04.jpg/330px-Mother_Jones_1902-11-04.jpg
Photo of Mother Jones during strike
https://uaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/motherjones_march_colorado.jpg
Rose got the information for her story from the following sources:
Amber McLaughlin, the first openly transgender person to be executed in the U.S., dies by lethal injection
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/amber-mclaughlin-first-openly-transgender-person-executed-us-dies-leth-rcna64071
Missouri inmate Amber McLaughlin executed: Report
https://abcnews.go.com/US/amber-mclaughlin-set-1st-trans-person-executed-us/story?id=96121140
McLaughlin v. State, No. SC 91255
https://app.vlex.com/#vid/899851600
Photo of Amber McLaughlin
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/transgender-woman-executed-638.jpg
Photo of Scott and Amber
https://reduxx.info/inmate-on-death-row-now-identifying-as-a-woman-ahead-of-execution/