Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, prominent New York liberal, author, and organizer for the Workers Defense Union between 1917 and 1923 was a leader in the fight for civil rights for over forty years. She worked to secure justice for political prisoners, anarchists, labor agitators, IWW members, Socialists, and others whom it was felt were being deprived of their civil rights. The organization through which much of the work was carried on was the Workers Defense Union which was closely tied to the Industrial Workers of the World.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn died while on a trip to Moscow, September 6, 1964, at the age of 74.
