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In support of the Emma Goldman Projects, please read:

“[After] almost half a century of so-called freedom, the Negro Question is more acute than ever… Hardly a day passes without a Negro being lynched. … Nowhere in the country does the Negro enjoy equal opportunity with the white man—socially, politically, or economically, notwithstanding his alleged Constitutional rights… Race hatred is not limited to the Negro. To a lesser degree other races and nationalities also suffer from the same narrow-minded spirit.”

“The Situation in America” - Emma Goldman’s report to the International Anarchist Congress, Amsterdam, August 1907 — published in Mother Earth, September 1907.

Dearest Emmassaries,  

In 1907, Emma Goldman identified and lamented the problem of racial inequality — still plaguing our nation now 110 years since she spoke. Although racism was not her primary focus, the inspiration and courage with which she fought against injustice lives on. Help perpetuate her wisdom and insight! The best way to do that would be to multiply yourselves as monthly donors: see how to do so below.

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As ever, we are inspired by our project’s Principal Investigator at UCB, Professor Leon Litwack, — among the greatest historians of the plight of African Americans — whose array of pathbreaking books include his Pulitzer Prize-winning Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery, and Trouble In Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. What a privilege it is to have the support and guidance of Leon, a forward-thinking scholar whose works continue to have a profound impact on the study of American history. His book How Free is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow inspired the new film The Long Shadow and launched him into stardom!

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Because of your generous donations, we have been able to raise over $70,000 since last June — in large part due to our many donors who chose to commemorate Emma’s June 27 birthday by pledging to send monthly donations of only $27 only through April of next year. Now only 740 such sustainers are needed for funding the 700 page book and finding a home for the 40,000 document collection.

Unfortunately our funds are projected to run out by the end of November 2017. As we are a non-funded project of the University of California, Berkeley, the EGP depends upon the contributions of our wonderful donors to sustain us as we complete our 4th and final volume, otherwise, the university ONCE AGAIN will move to SHUT US DOWN. Our minimum UCB required operating budget is $20,000 per month; our necessary budget is $27,000 per month. Right now, as we are preparing high quality visuals, vetting all previous edits and beginning to finalize the writing for the ancillary sections of the forthcoming volume, your support matters more than ever. Timely donations will extend our work through the winter.

Preserving the written legacy of those who, like Emma Goldman, dared to confront injustice, and whose eloquence, passion, and perseverance — whose life stories are in themselves wellsprings of hope — can serve as sustenance to all who face the challenges of distressing times.

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Please consider contributing to the Emma Goldman Papers today — to honor the contribution of one of the many immigrants who continue to honor the contribution of one of the greatest proponents against injustice everywhere!

To pledge a recurring donation, click here, enter the desired amount for each payment, and on the next screen, select, “recurring.” If you are not able to pledge a recurring donation right now, we of course always appreciate a one-time donation.

THANK YOU TO OUR DEVOTED DONORS FOR YOUR CONTINUED GENEROSITY AND SUPPORT!

Hurrah! The Emma Goldman Papers stands united against hate!

Ever grateful for you generosity and support,

Candace, Dan, and our student staff Gabrielle, Guive, Austin, and Hannah, as well as our faithful local outreach committee.

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The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

510-642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman

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The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

The Emma Goldman Papers Project is completely funded by donations from our generous "Emmassaries". We hope you will consider making a contribution so that we can reach our goal of publishing the final volume on Emma's time in America and finding a home for our enormous collection of documents, invaluable to scholars, students, and the public alike. Make your tax-deductible donation here.

For more information on the Emma Goldman Papers and Emma's written legacy, see our UC Berkeley website and our blog.

To access our treasure trove of writings by and about Emma Goldman, free to all, see our digital archive, along with our digital microfilms guide to assist you in navigating the documents.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for facts, photos, and Emma quotes that are as resonant today as they were during Emma's lifetime.

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Happy Birthday Emma!

From Emma Goldman Papers June 2018 newsletter

Dear Emmassaries,

This June 27 will mark Emma’s 149th birthday! Join us in celebrating her favorite day of the year by contributing to the Emma Goldman Papers. Your contribution will help us preserve and disseminate history “from below” and push UCB’s termination of our project past June 30th.

Her Story

In the midst of one of the most repressive eras in the history of the United States, when dissent against conscription and war was criminalized, Emma Goldman bore the harsh consequences of prison and deportation for her assertion of the right of free expression in wartime. Undaunted, she remained hopeful about the future, buoyed by friends, comrades, and those who would carry on the struggle when she was gone.

The month of June in 1917 was the most dramatic month in Emma’s life. Both Mother Earth and the Blast magazines were briefly held up in the mail, and eventually censored. Emma and Sasha were arrested on June 15th on charges of conspiring to obstruct the draft. Their trial began less than two weeks later — on Emma’s birthday — which she considered curiously appropriate. The trial was the culmination of  the decades she’d spent trying to make America live up to the principles upon which it was founded.

Emma recounted how it felt to be tried for conspiracy on her 48th birthday: “It marked twenty-eight years of my life spent in an active struggle against compulsion and injustice. The United States now symbolizing concentrated coercion, I could not have wished for a more appropriate celebration than to meet its challenge” (Living My Life Chapter 45).

Her next birthday, her forty-ninth, came around during her eighteen-month sentence at the Jefferson City Missouri State Penitentiary. This time, her fellow inmates gifted her with a full quota of work, thereby securing for her a day away from the prison’s grueling workshop.

She described the day in her autobiography Living My Life,

“They had remembered my birthday. ‘It would be so nice if Miss Emma could keep out of the shop on that day,’ they had said. The next morning my table was covered with letters, telegrams, and flowers from my own kin and comrades, as well as with innumerable packages from friends in different parts of the country. I was proud to have so much love and attention, but nothing touched me so deeply as the gift of my fellow-sufferers in prison" (Chapter 47).

By the time Emma’s fiftieth birthday arrived, the sadness of being so close to banishment from her beloved adopted country marred her usual birthday exuberance. She reflected upon her life’s work and the elusive quality of her contributions to the world, musing with a touch of melancholia:

“Fifty years — thirty of them in the firing line — had they borne fruit or had I merely been repeating Don Quixote’s idle chase? Had my efforts served only to fill my inner void, to find an outlet for the turbulence of my being? Or was it really the ideal that had dictated my conscious course? Such thoughts and queries swirled through my brain as I pedalled my sewing-machine on June 27, 1919” (Living My Life Chapter 49).

 Our Story

We, too, at the Emma Goldman Papers sometimes wonder whether we are tilting at windmills. At the same time, however, we know that telling the story through her own words by documenting her courage to stand firmly against: the suppression of free speech, the exploitation of workers, the desolation of the homeless and unemployed, and the rising tide of militarism, is an inspiration to others who recognize and oppose injustice.

Emma, who valued the enjoyment of the “beautiful, radiant things” of life, also loved receiving gifts and accolades from friends and comrades on her birthday. In fact, she kept detailed accounts of the presents her friends gave her, and even berated friends who forgot her birthday.

Like Emma, we look forward to receiving gifts from you, promise never to berate those who can’t, and will continue to honor your generosity by adding your names to our book’s “Emma’s List.” We can’t wait to celebrate our publication date with you — a birthday of sorts, for all of us!

These days we are busy honing in on the last round of changes to the final volume in our four-book documentary series on Emma’s years in the United States, Democracy Disarmed: 1917-1919. Last week, Candace sent the final section of the introduction to the editors! Dan is hard at work refining the edits and adding life to the biographical directory, finishing up the final forty biofiles of our directory of over one hundred dramatis personae in her life--- anarchist and socialist comrades and friends, authors, artists, journalists, lawyers, prominent political figures, and key government officials instrumental in executing her deportation.  Sarah is compiling photographs and other visuals to use in a promotional video that will accompany the release of Volume 4 before leaving to conduct her own research for the rest of the summer. Susan is perfecting the scans of the visuals to keep the aesthetics of the presentation consistent with the other volumes. Meghan is making sure that the contributions, especially those in memory or in honor of a dear one, will be listed appropriately in Emma’s List in the volume. June, our longtime volunteer (for the last 30 years!), will be celebrating her ninety-first birthday on June 27th — the same day as Emma would have been celebrating her one hundred and forty-ninth!

While the staff of the Emma Goldman Papers is plugging away, we need your help to keep our doors open. Our dream is to celebrate Emma’s birthday with (the required) $27,000 this month, and for the next six months to the end of 2018. These funds would give us the financial security to tie up the last few strings of the final installment of her American story. We ask that you consider making a recurring donation of $270 a month for the next six months. Just maybe we will be able to start the new year with an ‘End of Book Production Celebration’!

As always, we thank you for believing in the value of our work; we at the Emma Goldman Papers could not have come this far without your help.

All together now, let’s shout out a rousing happy birthday, Emma — and dance!

http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/browse/?u=39

  A reminder that our treasure trove is free and accessible to all:

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanguide00falk

and

https://archive.org/details/emmagoldmanpapers

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Thank you all. . . for helping us persevere!  . . .

Candace

for

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

The Emma Goldman Papers Project is completely funded by donations from our generous "Emmassaries". We hope you will consider making a contribution so that we can reach our goal of publishing the final volume on Emma's time in America and finding a home for our enormous collection of documents, invaluable to scholars, students, and the public alike. Make your tax-deductible donation here.

For more information on the Emma Goldman Papers and Emma's written legacy, see our UC Berkeley website and our blog.

To access our treasure trove of writings by and about Emma Goldman, free to all, see our digital archive, along with our digital microfilms guide to assist you in navigating the documents.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for facts, photos, and Emma quotes that are as resonant today as they were during Emma's lifetime.

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“... the Statue of Liberty suddenly emerg[ed] from the mist. Ah, there she was, the symbol of hope, of freedom, of opportunity! She held her torch high to light the way to the free country, the asylum for the oppressed of all lands.”

Emma Goldman, Living My Life, Volume 1, p. 11

Dearest Emmassaries,

We are so honored by the outpouring of support we received last month in response to the news of our imminent August 31 shutdown. We have received an incredible $26,130 so far -- which means we are now permitted by UC Berkeley to remain open until September 30, on a roll to October!

Grateful for the guarantee of one more month of operation, we are still faced with raising funds to complete our fourth and final volume. If you can spare a bit more, join our group of Special Sustainers at $27 a month for at least 10 months (in honor of Emma’s June 27 birthday!) -- and help us meet the goal of $270,000 (now $250,000) -- after which our fundraising drives will be over!

Please also consider sharing this email with friends and associates (whether or not they are Emma Goldman fans!) who care about the preservation of women’s history, free speech, and the legacy of inclusivity upon which our nation was founded.

DONATE HERE

We are so close to finishing the last book of the 4-volume series, Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years. With your support for preserving Emma’s written legacy, we can reclaim an essential part of our country’s complex history as a “symbol of hope, of freedom, of opportunity.”

The Emma Goldman Papers

University of California, Berkeley

2241 Channing Way

Berkeley, CA 94720-6030

(510) 642-4708

emma@berkeley.edu

The Emma Goldman Papers Project is completely funded by donations from our generous "Emmassaries." We hope you will consider making a contribution so that we can reach our goal of publishing the final volume of our documentary history of Emma’s time in America, and finding a home for our enormous collection of documents, invaluable to scholars, students, and the public alike. Make your tax-deductible donation here.

For more information on the Emma Goldman Papers and Emma's written legacy, see our UC Berkeley website and our blog.

To access our treasure trove of writings by and about Emma Goldman, free to all, see our digital archive, along with our digital microfilms guide to assist you in navigating the documents.

Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for facts, photos, and Emma quotes that resonate as powerfully today as they did during Emma's lifetime.