Iron in her soul : Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the American Left / Helen C. Camp.

In the summary the phrase, "American Communist Party" is noted by "[sic]" because that is not the name of the party. It is "Communist Party USA."

Includes bibliographical references (pages [365]-375) and index.

Prologue: the rebel girl -- I. In search of a cause -- II. Pie in the sky bey and bye -- III. From Bohemia to the battlements -- IV. Making America safe for democracy -- V. Turning point -- VI. Interlude -- VII. Red decade -- VIII. Comrades in arms -- IX. Goodbye, Gurley Flynn -- X. Becoming un-American -- XI. Trial -- XII. Number 11710 -- XIII. The last battles -- XIV. Khruschchev, Mao, and Stalin's ghost -- XV. Journey's end.

"In Iron in Her Soul, the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Helen Camp details more than 50 years of Flynn's involvement in humanitarian and social causes. From the early 1900s until her death in the 1960s, Flynn served at the forefront of American labor and radical movements. As the only woman leader of the Industrial Workers of the World she organized immigrant factory workers in the East, iron ore minors on Minnesota's Mesabi Range, and lumberjacks in the Pacific Northwest. When the Red Scare that accompanied World War I gutted the Wobblies, she became a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union. In the 1930s she joined the American Communist Party [sic], being instantly thrust into the top ranks of the leadership. In 1961 she became the first woman to chair the party. Based on more than a decade of research in Flynn's personal papers, memoirs of friends and colleagues, FBI files, interviews, and other important unpublished materials in a wide range of historical repositories, Iron in Her Soul is an exhaustively researched, yet dramatic and readable account of America's most notable twentieth century radical." - from the back cover.