The complicated and powerful Lucy Parsons

The complicated and powerful Lucy Parsons

Lucy Parsons is undoubtedly one of the most controversial people buried in Forest Park. While some might only know her as one of the Haymarket Martyrs’ widows, Parsons was a powerful and influential figure in her own right. The Chicago Police Department once proclaimed she was “more dangerous than a thousand rioters.”    It is nearly impossible to craft a tidy, one-sentence description of Lucy Parsons. Over the course of her life she was an anar…