In brief
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman shared a life of speeches, papers, and exile. She became the more famous voice — a defender of birth control, labor, and the right to dissent. He paid with fourteen years after shooting Henry Clay Frick.
Deported together in 1919, they remained writers of a radical tradition that America never fully absorbed. The pair is remembered for nerve, not for comfort.
Photographs
Hero photograph: Takuma Kajiwara, via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
