Hellraisers Journal: Ban on Mother Jones in Forsyth County Aimed at "Women Agitators For Anything!"
Submitted by JayRaye on Mon, 02/08/2016 - 12:56pmPut on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Thursday February 8, 1906
Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Forsyth County Puts the Ban on Mother Jones
The Charlotte Daily Observer of February 6th reported the news:
Forsyth Commissioners Put Ban on
"Mother Jones."Special to The Observer.
Winston-Salem, Feb. 5.-The county commissioners, in session to-day, declined to grant an application for "Mother Jones" to speak in the court house Friday and Saturday, on the ground that the board is "opposed to the court house being used for continual agitation of socialism."
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