some of you may know that emma goldman is buried the forest home cemetery in chicago illinois at the end of the blue line south of the blue line get off the train walked two blocks south through the marble archways and its rot iron past the gypsy graves. take a left on the path and when you get to the haymarket monument you will see the haymarket tabare. look to your left about three rows back there are tombstones and you will see emma goldman's tombstone that looks a little dingy these days. much rusty year than the last time i visited. i wrote a book about the people buried in forest home some years ago. by capitalism on the american left. actually i call it the u.s. left but my publisher decided everybody is american. there are 72 radicals mostly communists and anarchist's buried in this plant around the haymarket monument and some heavy names in both the amicus and communist movement exactly like three tombstones from emma goldman is buried foster like the dictator of the communist party for years and years he was like the main ideologue and i'm interested in communist actually t

you know, emma goldman was a eugenicist. w.e.b. du bois was a eugenicist. in fact there have been quotes that there were times that margaret sanger actually quoted tebeau eda de boies and was accused of racism for using his words because he talked about the need to control the fertility of ignorant southern black women who didn't have the knowledge to control their fertility and he cared about that and he had his whole theory of the talent and that it was important for black families to control their reproduction and so she was in some ways and the company of reformers and radicals who shared this edition. on the other hand, she did take on an articulate some eugenic views that were on a savory and that got her into a lot of trouble. now particularly the black community was troubled by a lot the was going on in the birth control of the especially the late 60's with the black power movement there were struggles in the community between men who felt that there was a kind of genocidal in polls with birth control and the pill and a lot of family planning clinic