Four Star Anarchist Organization Internal Education Project

History of AnarchismTo prepare for this event, we have selected “something to read” and “something to do”. We hope you enjoy this project.

Something to Do prep work instructionsYou are making a page for a scrapbook. This assignment should take no more than two hours. You can interpret “fi nd out all you can” as a trip to visit and photograph these locations, a google search, or an examination of library and museum archives. You can choose to interview someone, collect artifacts, copy book covers, etc. You do not have to write any new material, but can if you want. For example, if you compare a historical site to present-day, how might the difference be explained? What information is readily available about these sites, events, people and organizations? Did you know about this topic before doing this assignment? Do you want to continue this seek-and-show project? Please bring to the History of Anarchism internal education presentation your notes, recordings, objects and images at-tached to one or two single-sided 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages. An example is provided. Choose one or more of the following and fi nd out all you can:

Free SocietyDutch Hall, 233 111th St.

Workmen’s Circle School1241 N California

A Berkman Aid Fund (circa 1958)2422 N Halsted

International Workingmen’s AssociationMaximillian Olay

2038 W Potomac (1911)and its relation to Chicago residents Voltairine deCleyre, Annie & Jake Livshis & Gussie Denenberg

R. M. Yampolsky1258 Independence Blvd (1930)

Solidarity Bookstore (circa 1964)

Dill Pickle Club817 1/2 N Clark10 Tooker Place (alley entrance, off Dearborn)“Step high, stoop low and leave your dignity outside!”

Labor Sports Union (circa 1932)Counter Olympic GamesStagg Field, University of ChicagoThe Lusk Report

The Sands (circa 1852)What is that area known as now?

The Bread RiotsWhat was the critical issue? What was the temperature that day? How many people were involved?

16th & Halsted, July 26, 1877What is there now? Is there a plaque marking the spot? What would you write on a marker?

Unemployed March of 1915Who was involved? What happened? What makes this event worth remem-bering?

West Side AuditoriumSite of the Thanksgiving day funeral of Joseph Hillstrom (Joe Hill).What is there now? (Racine & Taylor) Find out about the lore of “Joe Hill’s ashes.” Perform a ditty from Joe Hill’s Song Book (strictly optional, strongly encouraged).

The Chicago 21 Corporation or Chicago 21 Plan (circa 1977)Was the plan realized? Who was for it and who was against it? Who is Marion Stamps? Find and contact a person involved with the Committee for a Co-alition to Stop the Chicago 21 Plan.

The “Bored of Education” MuralWhat is at the location now (2040 W Greenshaw)? Who were the artists? How was Marie Burton involved? Where is the mural now?

2377 W MonroeWhat is there now? Is there a plaque marking this spot? What would you write on a marker?

SDS’s Economic Research and Action ProjectWhat did this project do? Where was it located?

Hard Times conferenceWhat organizations initiated this project and what was the goal? What happened?

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My meetings are suppressed in Chicago

I should have gone to a hotel, but was certain that I would not be admitted. Fortunately, two Russian-American girls came to invite me. One of them, Dr. Re-becca Yampolsky, I knew through corre-spondence. Her apartment consisted of an offi ce and a living-room, she informed me, but she would be glad to share the latter with me. I accepted eagerly. At Yampolsky’s I met William Nathanson, a young student active with the Yiddish anarchist movement. He offered to help in anything I might decide to undertake. His comradely spirt and Becky’s hospi-tality soon made me forget the madhouse I had escaped.

I meet Ben Reitman

When I had almost given up hope of

being able to speak in Chicago, Becky Yampolsky brought word that Dr. Ben L. Reitman had offered us a vacant store he was using for gatherings of unemployed and hobos. We could hold our meetings there, he had said, and he also asked to see me to discuss the matter. In the press accounts of the unemployed parade in Chicago, Reitman had been mentioned as the man who had led the march and who had been among those beaten by the police. I was curious to meet him.

I am arrested but maintain order

I found our comrades already in her offi ce, discussing in what manner the authorities and reporters had learned that I would be present at the gathering. I sensed that they were suspecting Reit-man. I felt indignant, but said nothing; I expected he would soon come and speak for himself. But the night wore on and the

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b. 1882 d. 1984 b. 1882 d. 1984 b. 1882 d. 1984 Chicago anarchist and physician. Yam-polsy was an organizer of the Edelstadt Group and an early advocate of birth control. She treated Emma Goldman’s sudden illness in 1908 and arranged, with Ben Reitman, for the use of the Hobo College Hall. Yampolsky was a graduate of the University of Illinois medical school, member of the Chicago Science Club, and the companion of William Nathanson, MD.

empty lot at 3318 Douglas is the former site of Dr. Yampolski’s medical practice

1258 S. Independence Blvd.

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