On June 27, 1919 Goldman spent her 50th birthday behind prison walls, where she
was serving a two year prison term in Jefferson City, Missouri, for her conviction, along with Alexander
Berkman, for conspiracy against the Selective Service Act of 1917 (for publicly speaking out against conscription). Today, June 27, 2003 we remember the
strong woman and men of vision from our past, remind ourselves to persevere even in troubled times
and re-commit ourselves to the present and the future.
This is an especially wonderful year, because the Emma Goldman Papers Project through the
University of California Press has just published Volume One of Emma Goldman: A
Documentary History of the American Years, Made For America 1890-1901, the first
of four volumes. Below are documents from Goldman's 1919 birthday, which the project is currently working on for
Volume Four of the series.
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