This website attempts to document all the places in America that Emma Goldman gave talks, and all the topics she spoke on, between 1910 and 1916. They were her most active years in America and helped cement her reputation both nationally and internationally.

Click a place marker on the left to see a chronology of events that occurred there. Red markers indicate events with links to related archival materials. Use the controls in the top left corner to move around the map and to zoom in and out.

Once you have clicked on a certain city or place you will see a list of events on the right. An event with archival materials will have a "Related materials" link below it. If you click on that link you will see links to materials such as a flier advertising the meeting, or a contemporary newspaper account of the meeting, as well as contemporary newspaper coverage of events that were happening in the city the same time Goldman was speaking. Click these links to view the materials.

To contact us with comments, suggestions, or information please send an email to Barry Pateman at hiawg@earthlink.net. We welcome any information you may have that will add to our information about Goldman and where she spoke.

January 12-January 15, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Toledo, Ohio.

January 28, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Toledo, Ohio.

January 29, 1911

Emma Goldman lectured in Toledo. Robert Henri was in attendance.Several thousand anarchists protested the executions of K?toku and the other Japanese anarchists at meeting in Webster Hall followed by a march down Broadway in New York City. Speakers included Bayard Boyesen and Alexander Berkman. Emma Goldman and Ben Reitman sent a telegram of support.PLM forces captured Mexicali.

February 25, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Syndicalism, The Modern Menace to Capitalism" at Meredith Hall, corner of Jefferson and Michigan, Toledo, Ohio. Between 4,000 and 5,000 silk workers left work according to a prearranged plan, and the Paterson silk general strike began. Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, and Patrick Quinlan were all arrested on charges of incitement to riot after speaking at a workers gathering.

February 26, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Woman's Inhumanity to Man" at Meredith Hall, Toledo.

February 21, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Buffalo, New York.

January 8-9, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Buffalo, New York.

March 18, 1910

Emma Goldman arrived in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

March 20, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Tolstoy, Artist and Rebel" at 3 pm and on Galsworthy's Justice at 8 pm at McElroy's Hall, 723 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis.

March 21, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture at McElroy's Hall, Minneapolis, 8 p.m.

March 22, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Danger in the Growing Power of the Church" at Dania Hall, Cedar Avenue and Fifth Street, Minneapolis, 8 p.m.

March 23, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Victims of Morality" at Dania Hall, Minneapolis.

March 19-22, 1911

Emma Goldman in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

March 26, 1912

Emma Goldman in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

April 6, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "The Failure of Democracy" at 3 pm and on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist at 8 pm at Federation Hall, 102 Washington Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

April 7, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Sex Sterilization of Criminals" at Federation Hall, Minneapolis, 8 pm.

April 8, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Syndicalism, The Modern Menace to Capitalism" at Federation Hall, Minneapolis, 8 pm.

April 9, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture on "Woman's Inhumanity to Man" at Federation Hall, Minneapolis, 8 pm.

April 21-24, 1914

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

May 23, 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "The Philosophy of Anarchism" in the afternoon and on "Misconception of Free Love" in the evening in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

May 24, 1915

Emma Goldman's proposed to speak on "Birth Control, Why & How Workers Should Have Small Families" in the evening in Minneapolis.

April 12, 1910

Emma Goldman lectured in the evening on "Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School" at Eastman's Hall on State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Reverend William Thurston Brown introduced her.

April 13, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in the evening on "The White Slave Traffic" at Eastman's Hall, Salt Lake City.

April 22, 1911

John J. McNamara, Secretary-Treasurer of the Iron Workers Union, arrested in Indianapolis on suspicion of causing the Los Angeles Times explosion of 1 October 1910.Emma Goldman scheduled to debate socialist Murray King at the Federation of Labor Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah but he was replaced with Philip Engle.

April 23, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to give an afternoon and evening lecture at Federation of Labor Hall, Salt Lake City.

April 28, 1912

Emma Goldman gave two lectures at Socialist Hall, Salt Lake City, Utah. In her afternoon lecture she condemned labor leaders who renounced the McNamaras, calling them "yellow curs." She spoke on "Sex the Great Element of Creative Work" in the evening. "Woman Center of Social Storm Which Is Sweeping US Along," by Emma Goldman appears in the Denver Post.

April 29, 1912

Emma Goldman spoke on Rostand's "Chanteler" in the afternoon and "Shall the Poor Have Many Children" in the evening at Socialist Hall, Salt Lake City.

Early-Mid June, 1910

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Bismarck and Fargo, North Dakota.

July 2, 1910

Emma Goldman working on Anarchism and Other Essays in Ossining, New York.

Summer/Fall, 1911

Emma Goldman spent time with Alexander Berkman at retreat in Ossining, New York. Alexander Berkman resumed work on Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.

July-October, 1912

Emma Goldman recuperated from her tour at her farm in Ossining, New York. Alexander Berkman working on final chapter and revisions of Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, expected to be published by September, leaving Ben Reitman in charge of the Mother Earth office.

October 16, 1910

IWW announced open-air meeting in Fresno, California in defiance of local city ordinances, nine arrested. Five more arrested the following day.

May 13, 1911

Emma Goldman arrived in Fresno, California.

May 14, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke on "Anarchism and What it Stands For" at 3 pm and on "Marriage and Love" at 8 pm in Fresno.

January 17-20, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Columbus, Ohio.

January 18, 1911

Emma Goldman was prevented from speaking in Columbus. Holding their convention in Columbus at the same time, many members of the United Mine Workers supported Emma Goldman's right to free speech, even though union leaders of the UMW voted against Emma Goldman addressing the convention.K?toku and 23 co-defendants sentenced to death by the supreme court of Japan for plotting against the throne. Two other defendants sentenced to eight and eleven years imprisonment, respectively.Although the trial was held "in camera," the reading of the verdict was a public session.

January 19, 1911

In the K?toku trial, twelve of the death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment.Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Columbus.

January 20, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Columbus. Emma Goldman locked out of Memorial Hall, UMW convention location.

February 16, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Maternity" at Labor Hall, Columbus, Ohio, 8 pm.

February 17, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Art and Revolution" at 3 pm and on "Anarchism, the Moving Spirit in the Labor Struggle" at 8 pm presumably at Labor Hall, Columbus.

December 16-17, 1915

Emma Goldman was scheduled to lecture at Masonic Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio. Mayor Karb and Chief of Police Carter banned Emma Goldman from speaking because "she was not considered a fit person to lecture on either one of the subjects announced."

January 21-23, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Cincinnati, Ohio.

December 9-10, 1914

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio.

January 24, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke at the Pentecost Tabernacle, Indianapolis, Indiana. All halls initially refused. Ultimately, Orthodox preacher, Rev. Nelson, offered his church to Emma Goldman. Following engagement at the Pentecost Tabernacle, Emma Goldman spoke at the Universalist Church, Indianapolis. K?toku, Kanno Suga, and ten other Japanese anarchists were executed.

February 21, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Maternity" at Walhalla Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana, 8 pm.Judge finds probable cause of guilt against Ettor and Giovannitti.As they await the Grand Jury, they are held without bail.

February 22, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Art and Revolution" at 3 pm and on "Anarchism, the Moving Spirit in the Labor Struggle" at 8 pm, presumably at Walhalla Hall, Indianapolis.

March 4, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "The Failure of Democracy" at Germania Hall, 37 S. Delaware St., Indianapolis, Indiana, 8 pm.

March 5, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Syndicalism, The Modern Menace to Capitalism" at Germania Hall, Indianapolis, 8 pm.

March 6, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Woman's Inhumanity to Man" at Germania Hall, Indianapolis, 8 pm.

December 8, 1914

Emma Goldman spoke on "War and the Sacred Rights of Property" at Germania Hall, Indianapolis, Indiana.

December 9, 1914

Emma Goldman spoke on "Misconceptions of Free Love" at Germania Hall, Indianapolis.The miners strike in Colorado had dwindled and was effectively called off by the United Mine Workers Association after sixty six men, women and children had been killed.

December 14-15, 1915

Emma Goldman held two meetings at Odeon Hall, Metropolitan Music Building, corner of Pennsylvania and North Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.

January 25, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke on "Francisco Ferrer" at G.A.R. Hall, Elyria, Ohio.

February 14, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Maternity" at Grand Army of the Republic Hall, Elyria, Ohio, 8 pm.

January 27, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Dayton, Ohio.

February 18, 1912

Emma Goldman debated socialist Frank Midney in the afternoon at Jewel Theater, Dayton, Ohio. Attended by 200, resulting in Midney's two year expulsion from the Dayton Socialist Party. Emma Goldman spoke in the evening on "Motherhood."

February 6-7, 1911

Emma Goldman in Jackson, Michigan.

February 8-9, 1911

Emma Goldman in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted by William Buwalda.

Late MarchEarly April, 1912

According to Mother Earth, Emma Goldman spoke in the following cities after Milwaukee: Grand Rapids, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan; Madison, Wisconsin.

November 26, 1914

Emma Goldman spoke in Grand Rapids, Michigan at two meetings arranged by the Analyser Club with William Buwalda among the organizers.

March 4, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Victims of Morality" at Lyric Theatre, Belleville, Illinois. Ben Reitman scheduled to chair. Later town constables stopped Emma Goldman in train station in Staunton, Illinois but released her in time for her to address a small audience in a laundry building.

March 14, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke in St. Paul, Minnesota.

May 25, 1915

Emma Goldman spoke on "The Modern School and the Child" in St. Paul, Minnesota, under the auspices of the Liberal Alliance League.

May 26, 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in St. Paul.

March 26, 1911

Emma Goldman lectured at 3:00pm and on "The Spirit of Revolution" at 8:00pm at the Lyric Theater, Omaha, Nebraska.

March 27, 1911

Emma Goldman delivered a lecture in Omaha.

March 29, 1912

Emma Goldman in Omaha, Nebraska. Ricardo and Enrique Flores Magón, and W.C. Owen publish an open letter to Jean Grave responding to the attack in Les Temps Nouveau on the PLM claiming it is not an anarchist organization. In early April Kropotkin, joined the debate in the paper and wrote an article supporting the PLM.

March 28-30, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Lincoln, Nebraska

May 20, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke in the afternoon on "The Drama-A Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought" and in the evening on "Anarchism and What it Really Stands For" in Palo Alto, California.

Mid-June, 1911

Emma Goldman spoke in Colville, Washington and Boise, Idaho. She visited Idaho Penitentiary.

November 20-25, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Connecticut.

November 27-December 3, 1911

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak in Massachusetts.

December 3, 1911

Emma Goldman visited with Samuel Atkins Elliot Jr., grandson of former Harvard University President, while in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Socialism Caught in its Political Trap" for her Sunday lecture series at 43 East 22nd Street, New York City, and answered questions about the McNamara case.

December 19-20, 1911

Emma Goldman in Schenectady, New York.

February 24, 1915

Emma Goldman planned to lecture on "Anarchism," "The War," and "The Birth Strike" in Schenectady, New York.

April 1, 1915

Emma Goldman to speak on "The Birth Strike" in Schenectady, New York.

February 13, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Anarchism the Moving Spirit in the Labor Struggle" at Owl's Hall, Lorain, Ohio, 8 pm. San Diego City Council passed ordinance giving police the right to control movement and disperse assemblies in any part of the city, to take effect March 28.

November 30, 1912

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "Love and Marriage" in the afternoon and to debate Frank Midney on "Anarchism and Socialism" in the evening at Diamond Theatre, New Castle, Pennsylvania.

Late November, 1912

Emma Goldman planned to speak in the towns of McKees Rocks and New Kensington, Pennsylvania.

February 12, 1913

Emma Goldman lectured in Hartford, Connecticut.

April 18-19, 1913

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Coffeyville, Kansas.

October 26, 1913

Emma Goldman spoke on "Anarchism" in the afternoon and on "The Social and Revolutionary Significance of the Modern Drama" in the evening at the Broad Street Theatre, Trenton, New Jersey.

January 29, 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Yiddish in Boston, Massachusetts.

January 30, 1915

Emma Goldman delivered "two independent lectures" in the afternoon and evening in Boston; one arranged by the Freedom Group and "comrade Block," the other, a Jewish lecture, arranged by the Working People's Institute of Boston.

April 15 , 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to speak on "War and Private Property" at a public conference at Laster Hall, 34 Andrew St., Lynn, Massachusetts with Ben Reitman also scheduled to speak.

April 16, 1915

Emma Goldman addressed meeting of 1,000 people in Lynn.

November 17, 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Akron, Ohio.

December 18, 1915

Emma Goldman lectured at Kayser Hall, Akron, Ohio.

November 18, 1915

Emma Goldman scheduled to lecture in Youngstown, Ohio.

December 21, 1915

Emma Goldman lectured in Youngstown, Ohio.

May 27-28, 1916

A conference was held to celebrate the first anniversary of the Modern School's move to Stelton, New Jersey. Speakers included Emma Goldman, William Thurston Brown, and Harry Kelly.

July 6, 1916

Emma Goldman attended a banquet held in her honor by the families of the Flores Magón brothers in Silver Lake, California.