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Meets Trotsky, attends Comintern 1923 Meets Mikhail and Fanya Borodin 1924 Works for John Reed Colony, Service Committee) 1922 Returns to Moscow, reports for Seattle Union Record 1921 Goes to Poland and the Soviet Union (for American Friends

Seattle Daily Call 1918 Recalled from School Board, joins I.W.W., writes for Trial of Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) for Seattle 1917 Elected to Seattle School Board, covers Everett Massacre Welfare exhibits 1911 Discovers socialism in Kansas City, meets Roger Baldwin,īecomes engaged (1912) 1912 Joins United States Children's Bureau 1913 Breaks with Roger Baldwin 1914 Visits Ireland 1916 Resigns National Child Labor Committee, moves to Russell Sage Foundation 1910-1911 Joins National Child Labor Committee, organizes Child House 1908 Receives Ph.D., moves to Seattle, organizes 'Know Your City'Ĭampaigns in Seattle and elsewhere 1909 Visits Japan with Sydney, moves to New York, works for Seattle, works for Sprague-Warner's (cannery) in Chicago, begins going to Hull University of Chicago Sydney Strong moves to Seattle 1907 Finishes her graduate degree (M.A.), spends summer in School 1901 Strong in Hamelin, Germany for a year 1902 Enters Oberlin 1903 Enters Bryn Mawr Ruth Marie Strong (mother) dies 1904 Returns to Oberlin 1905-1906 Works for the TheĬhinese leaders considered her their unofficial spokesperson to the EnglishĬhronology of Strong's Life NovemBorn in Friend, Nebraska 1887 Family moves to Mount Vernon, Ohio 1896 Family moves to Oak Park, Illinois she enters high Remain in the good graces of the Chinese through the cultural revolution. Louise was honored and revered by the Chinese, one of the few Westerners withĮntree to China after the revolution and one of the last 'Old China Hands' to Was restored in 1958, she immediately made her way back to China, where she

She wasĬleared finally of the Soviets' charges against her in 1955. In California, where she wrote, lectured and invested in real estate. After theseĮvents, she was cut off from the Soviet Union, shunned by American CommunistsĪnd denied a passport by the United States government. Strong's enthusiasm for the Chinese revolution may have led to herĪrrest, imprisonment and expulsion from the Soviet Union in 1949. In his 1946 interview with her, Maoįirst used the expression 'paper tiger' to describe the United States. Tse-tung, gaining their respect and trust. Interviewed the Chinese Communist leaders, including Chou En-lai and Mao During the course of her visits to China, she met and She visited China first in 1925 and returnedįrequently until 1947. Strong also became one of the earliest journalists to cover theĬommunist revolution in China. Would return to the United States for a lecture tour, usually between January During this period she spent part of the year in the Soviet Union, but Quest took her first to the Soviet Union, where she was based from 1921 untilġ940. Of these events, Strong went elsewhere in search of socialism in practice. Of association with the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). She was elected to the Seattle School Board and subsequently recalled because Seattle, she began her journalism career and wrote for the Including the Everett massacre and trial, and the Seattle General Strike. There from 1916 to 1921, which was for her a time of radicalizing events, Anna Louise Strong, who seldom lived anywhere for long, joined him Sydney Strong moved to Seattle in 1906 where he lived until his death Welfare exhibits throughout the country from 1910-1912. After finishing herĮducation, Strong joined the National Child Labor Committee and organized child Mawr and University of Chicago, where she earned a Ph.D. She was educated at Oberlin College, Bryn She was theĭaughter of a Congregationalist minister, Sydney Strong, who was a pacifist and Revolutions and author of over 30 books and countless articles. Anna Louise Strong was a journalist, world traveler, observer of

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