Anarchist, lecturer, feminist and free speech advocate.
Born June 27, 1869, Kovno, Russia (now Kaunas, Lithuania); died May 14, 1940, Toronto, Canada.
Buried in Forest Park.

Emma Goldman was an international anarchist who lived in the United States from 1885 to 1919. She worked in a clothing factory in Rochester, New York, and there attended meetings of the German Socialists. She was eighteen at the time of the Haymarket trials, and the hangings deepened her hatred of political repression. She moved to New York City in 1889 and became associated with the Russian anarchist Alexander Berkman. In the early decades of the twentieth century, Goldman traveled across the country lecturing on anarchism, free speech, and women's rights.

In 1919, J. Edgar Hoover had her deported to Russia (she was allowed to return to the United States only once, in 1935, to attend a dinner in her honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York). She soon became disillusioned with the Communist government there, left Russia, and lived in Europe while continuing to promote radical causes. Her autobiography. My Life, chronicles her remarkable career as an anarchist and revolutionary. At the time of her death, she was in Canada raising money for the anti-Franco forces in Spain.

She asked to be buried here with others from the labor movement; Roger Baldwin, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, gave her eulogy. The portrait plaque on the gravestone was produced by the sculptor Jo Davidson. The date on the stone is wrong; she died on May 14, 1940, in Toronto, not 1939, as shown.