This nine-minute interview recounts Equi’s early adult days on a homestead, her defense of a girlfriend with a horsewhipping in the center of a small Oregon town, and her heroic relief work following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Only so much can be covered in nine minutes, but I mentioned as well Equi’s fight for voting rights, economic justice, and free speech.
MARIE EQUI: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions published by Oregon State University Press in September 2015 is available at bookstores and online.