Albert Parsons, Chicago Haymarket martyr

1848 Albert Parsons, radical American editor and printer, former Confederate soldier, husband of radical labor organizer and anarchist (later Communist), Lucy Parsons (1853 - 1942).

He was one of the anarchists unjustly accused of and executed November 11, 1887 (amid international protest) for the Haymarket bombing in Chicago, USA.

If the world must lose eight of its people, it can better afford to
lose the eight members of the Illinois Supreme Court.
George Bernard Shaw

Early progressives in the Book of Days