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Albert Richard Parsons (1848–1887) was a pioneer American socialist and later anarchist newspaper editor orator and labor activist. As a teenager he served in the military force of the Confederate States of America in Texas during the American Civil War. After the war he settled in Texas and became an activist for the rights of former slaves and later a Republican official during reconstruction. With his wife Lucy Parsons he then moved to Chicago in 1873 and worked in newspapers.
