The Emma Goldman Papers Project Exhibit

University of Alberta
Rutherford Library South Foyer
May 2 - 30, 2003

Since 1980, the Emma Goldman Papers Project has collected, organized, and edited tens of thousands of documents by and about Goldman from around the world. On Friday, May 2nd until Monday, May 30th, The Emma Goldman Papers will be on display in the Foyer of Rutherford Library South. This exhibit is in-conjunction with the Culture and State Conference hosted by the University of Alberta and supported by Canadian Research Chairs program.

The Emma Goldman Papers: A Microfilm Edition (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1991) and Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources (Chadwyck-Healey Inc., 1995) includes unique documentation of government and press reactions to radicalism. Other publications include The Life and Times of Emma Goldman (ISBN 0-9635443-0-6), a 127-page high school curriculum guide highlighting twenty-four primary source historical documents. Since 1990, the Project has toured an exhibition of thirty-eight reproductions of historical photographs, personal letters, government documents and other memorabilia.

SPEAKERS TO DATE
We are proud to announce the Candace Falk will speak at the opening of the Emma Goldman Exhibit. As the Project Director of the exhibit, Candace will also offer a workshop during the Conference dates for students of Humanities Computing (HuCo) and the school of Library and Information Studies (TBA).

• FALK, Candace. University of California, Berkeley. Love, Anarchy, and Emma Goldman (Holt, 1984; revised edition, Rutgers University Press, 1990, 1999). Project Director of the Emma Goldman Project.
  

HISTORY - EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940)
Emma Goldman is one of the most notable and influential women in modern North American history. Described by newspapers as "the most dangerous woman in the world." Goldman consistently promoted a wide range of controversial movements and principles including anarchism; equality and independence for women; radical education; sexual freedom and birth control; and union organization and the eight-hour day. Emma Goldman's advocacy of these causes helped set the historical context for some of today's most important political reforms for all working people.

Emma Goldman visited Alberta twice in her life. In 1907 she was in Calgary for a short stay. Twenty years later, in exile from the US, she visited Edmonton for a month in 1927. Her visit was sponsored by the Edmonton Kinsmen, Edmonton Jewish Womens' League, the Womens' Institute, the Socialist Party and the Edmonton District Labour Council. She spent what she called "a relaxing wonderful month" after a hectic cross Canada tour. She was well received in the press as both The Bulletin and The Journal carried articles on her. She spoke on Womens' rights, the New Woman and younger women known as flappers were exerting their rights in such issues as education, smoking, bobbed hair cuts, short skirts, and jazz dancing. She had just published Modern Drama, her analysis of drama, and of course Anarchism and the Russian Revolution. Her stay was eventful, speaking to packed houses.

ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THIS EXHIBIT
· Alberta Provincial Museum
· The Boag Foundation
· Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
· Edmonton Jewish Womens' League
· Edmonton District Labour Council
· Edmonton Public Library

Exhibit Links
· Culture and State Conference
· Edmonton May Week Festival, May Day On the Web
· Emma Goldman Exhibit Buttons