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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

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The Resume

    (August 7, 1890-September 5, 1964)
    Born in Concord, New Hampshire
    Organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World (1907-16)
    Founding member of the ACLU (1920)
    Chairman of the American Communist Party (1961-64)
    Subject of the Joe Hill song 'Rebel Girl'

Why she might be annoying:

    She was expelled from the ACLU over her membership in the Communist Party.
    She spent three years in prison for advocating the overthrow of the US government (1955-57).
    She died in Moscow during a speaking tour and was given a state funeral by the Soviet Union.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was expelled from high school for her political activities.
    She criticized the male-dominated unions for not addressing the needs of women workers.
    Her campaigns to improve working conditions prompted Theodore Dreiser to call her 'an East Side Joan of Arc.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 154 Votes: 67.53% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 19 Votes: 89.47% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 28 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 163 Votes: 65.64% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 20 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 33 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 352 Votes: 80.40% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 124 Votes: 74.19% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 601 Votes: 67.89% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 48 Votes: 54.17% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 22 Votes: 63.64% Annoying