Anna Louise Strong Biography

Anna Louise Strong, Journalist

Occup.	Journalist
From	USA
Born	November 24, 1885 Friend, Nebraska
Died	March 29, 1970 Beijing, People's Republic of China
Aged	84 years

Anna Louise Strong was an American journalist, teacher, and political protestor recognized for her unfaltering assistance of socialist as well as communist motions. Born on November 24, 1885, in Friend, Nebraska, she was the little girl of Sydney Dix Strong, a congregational minister, and also Eleanor Louise Davidson. Strong matured in an environment of social and also political engagement, revealed to her household's dynamic politics early in life.

Strong finished from Oberlin College in 1905 and later on gained her Ph.D. in viewpoint at the University of Chicago in 1908, before attending Bryn Mawr College as a Bertrand Russell Fellow. She after that moved to Europe, where she researched in Berlin, Zurich, and also Paris, discovering different approaches and completing her intellectual advancement.

Going back to the United States, she worked out in Seattle in 1914 where her journalistic profession started. Strong came to be the editor of the Seattle Union Record, a labor paper. In this placement, she utilized her writing abilities to promote for workers' legal rights, social justice, and also exposure to socialist ideals. This gained her a credibility as a crucial figure in the labor and also socialist motions in Seattle, and in 1916 she was elected to the Seattle School Board.

Her extreme beliefs at some point led her to join the Socialist Party and also later on the Communist Party USA. Her support for these companies drew objection and she was removed from her placement on the School Board in 1918. Furthermore, she was billed with espionage and also conspiracy theory during the Emergency Committee for Truth, but the fees were ultimately dismissed.

Strong's political leanings took her to the Soviet Union, where she visited Russia in 1921 as well as was present throughout the very early years of the Bolshevik Revolution. As one of the very first American reporters to go to and also report about the transformation, she had first-hand communications with vital Communist leaders, consisting of Lenin and Trotsky. Via her short articles as well as publications regarding the Soviet Union, she came to be a noticeable historian of Soviet life as well as politics throughout the very early years of the USSR.

Throughout the 1930s, Strong took a trip thoroughly with Europe, reporting increasing of fascism in Germany and the Spanish Civil War. She continued to write dispatches on numerous political and also social issues, while additionally maintaining her assistance for socialist as well as communist movements worldwide.

In 1946, she went to China as well as established a close relationship with the Chinese Communist Party. She spoke with leaders like Mao Zedong as well as Zhou Enlai, coming to be a crucial foreign source of details as well as evaluation concerning the Chinese Revolution. Additionally, she authored 2 bios of Mao Zedong as well as assisted introduce him to Western target markets.

Nonetheless, her organization with the Communist Party drew in scrutiny from the U.S. government. Throughout the 1950s, in the age of McCarthyism, she was examined for claimed reconnaissance activities, although no formal action was taken versus her. As a result, she ended up being a debatable number in the U.S. and invested much of her later years in China, where she remained to document the Communist movement as well as advancement of the country.

Anna Louise Strong died in Beijing on March 29, 1970, at the age of 84, leaving a heritage as a passionate supporter for socialism, an incisive doubter of industrialism, as well as a pioneering women journalist that chronicled some of the most memorable events of the twentieth century. On the whole, her life exhibited an undeviating commitment to social justice, testing existing class structure, and raising different voices as well as point of views around the world.

Our collection contains 8 quotes who is written / told by Anna.

Related authors: Bertrand Russell (Philosopher), Zhou Enlai (Statesman), Mao Zedong (Leader), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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8 Famous quotes by Anna Louise Strong

"Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived"

"Having no diplomatic representation in Washington, China has no sources which allow her to check the character of applicants and therefore makes the practice of refusing everybody from the United States"

"I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority"

"A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China"

"To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be"

"They say the Pharaohs built the pyramids Do you think one Pharaoh dropped one bead of sweat? We built the pyramids for the Pharaohs and we're building for them yet"

"So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused"

"In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China"