Julia May Courtney

Julia May Courtney (June 7, 1873 – 1951) was an American anarchist and writer. Courtney was born in Clifton Springs, New York and moved to Denver, Colorado in 1881.[1] She is best known for her article for Mother Earth about the Colorado Ludlow Massacre entitled "Remember Ludlow!"[2] [3] Courtney also co-founded a Denver branch of the Ferrer Association around 1911 with Duren J.H. Ward and intended to eventually start a "Modern School".[4] Courtney was a poet and contributed regularly to Up the Divide, a turn of the century periodical edited by Ward that was devoted to seeing religion and life "from new altitudes." [5][6]

References
  1. McGraw, Michael (2018). Lanty McGraw and Catherine Wade (PDF).
  2. Zinn, Howard; Arnove, Anthony (2011-01-04). Voices of a People's History of the United States. Seven Stories Press. ISBN 9781583229477.
  3. Glassgold, Peter (2012-11-01). Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. Counterpoint Press. ISBN 9781619021402.
  4. Avrich, Paul (2014-07-14). The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400853182.
  5. Up the Divide. D.J.H. Ward. 1909.
  6. Post, Louis Freeland; Post, Alice Thatcher; Cooley, Stoughton (1909). The Public: A Journal of Democracy. Public Publishing Company.


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