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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
Mary Harris Jones
Mary Harris Jones
Born: Aug 1, 1837
Died: Nov 30, 1930

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Desperate, Men, Clothes, Despair, Nursed, Back, Strike, Out, Martyrs, Driven, Dead, Mothers, Were, Children, Laid, Sanity, Who, Ragged

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