REVOLUTIONARY WOMAN OF THE DAY: Lucy Parsons (circa 1853 – March 7, 1942) was a labor organizer, socialist, and legendary orator. Lucy was of Native American, Black, and Mexican ancestry, born in Texas as a slave. She moved to Chicago where she was a key organizer in the labor movement and also participated in revolutionary activism on behalf of political prisoners, people of color, the homeless, and women. She said, “We [women] are the slaves of slaves. We are exploited more ruthlessly than men.” We salute Lucy Parsons, known by the Chicago Police Department as “more dangerous than a thousand rioters”. Know your revolutionary women’s history.

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The Chilkat “blanket” is a ceremonial shoulder mantle worn by chiefs and other wealthy men and women of the Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America. The mantles were worn or displayed on various ceremonial occasions, including the potlatch, which included speeches, feasting and dances and ended with the host’s presentation of the privileges he claimed—validated by gift-giving. Mantles were often given to distinguished guests, and were sometimes cut into strips for this purpose. The recipient would then sew the strips into smaller items such as aprons, leggings, tunics, or caps. This vest, with its cut curves and collar, follows a European example and its maker carefully matched the design across the front opening.

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