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Mother Jones lived one of the most dramatic second acts in American history.

Her early life was shaped by poverty, immigration, and repeated personal tragedies, and she reinvented

herself in middle age as a warrior for justice. She was a fearless labor organizer, an electrifying

speaker who rallied coal miners, steelworkers, railroad shopmen, and especially exploited children

to stand up for their rights.

She once earned the label, the most dangerous woman in America,

for standing firm against powerful corporate and government pressures.

Her work can still be felt in the labor protections,

organizing strategies, and economic justice movements around the world. The end. Let's talk about Mother Jones.

But first, let's drop her into history. In 1903, construction began on New York City's Grand Central

Terminal, a building designed to replace Grand Central Station,

which was rapidly becoming unusable due to increased population and railroad technology.

This structure would take 10 years to complete.

The very first Tour de France bicycle race was held.

The Imperial Library in India was open to the public. 45 years and an independence

from British rule, the name was changed to the National Library of India, the largest in the country.

The Wright brothers filed for a patent on a flying machine. It was denied, and they had to hire

patent attorney to fine-tune the application.

Meanwhile, the brothers made the first free, controlled, and sustained flight on their machine that same year.

The patent finally arrived three years later.

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