Anna Rochester
American labor reformer, journalist and activist (1880–1966) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anna Rochester (March 30, 1880 — May 11, 1966) was an American labor reformer, journalist, political activist, and Communist.[1] Although for several years an editor of the liberal monthly The World Tomorrow, Rochester is best remembered as a co-founder of the Labor Research Association, a bureau which collected and interpreted labor statistics in close coordination with the Communist Party USA.
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Born | March 30, 1880 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | May 11, 1966(1966-05-11) (aged 86) New York City, New York, U.S. |
Resting place | Brookside Cemetery (Englewood, New Jersey) |
In the 21st century Rochester became the subject of academic interest for the duality of her public political activity with successful maintenance of a long-term same-sex affectionate relationship with fellow communist Grace Hutchins, a relationship considered taboo according to the social mores of the day. Although the pair lived as partners for over 40 years, Rochester never self-identified as a lesbian and the question of whether the pair were sexually intimate remains unresolved.