Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Tenement Talk from March, 2015

Historian Lara Vapnek introduces her biography of the woman who became the most important female leader of the Industrial Workers of the World and of the American Communist Party. Vapnek weaves together Flynn’s personal and political life, making connections between feminism, socialism, free love, and free speech. Vapnek explores these ideas with the pre-eminent U.S. women’s historian Alice Kessler-Harris.