LATE anarchist still causes stir
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... No doubt the execution of Parsons' husband, Albert, in the Haymarket
Riot that left eight police officers dead caught his attention. ...

Lucy Parsons died 62 years ago, but the controversy over her life rages on over a plot of land at 4712 W. Belmont Ave.

That's the site of a proposed small park the Chicago Park District wants to name after Parsons, a Chicago labor organizer who for a time called herself an anarchist.

Parsons' husband, Albert, was executed on trumped up charges, following the Haymarket Riot that left eight police officers dead

But historians say Albert Parsons wasn't guilty and neither he nor his wife were at the riot.

Mayor Richard Daley backs naming the park after Parsons, an African-American with Native American and Mexican blood who continued to be a force in the labor movement until her death in 1942.

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And Bob Matter, who also spoke on behalf of Parsons, noted the woman was harassed by Chicago police in her lifetime.

"She was continually shut down by the Chicago Police Department her whole life when she tried to speak," he said. "Now, the Chicago police are trying to shut the memory of her down."

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