From a very young age, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the �Rebel Girl� (1890-1964) dedicated her life to labor struggle. She was a fiery orator who organized for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). She is most famous for her leadership in the Mesabi Iron Range Strike in 1916, and the Lawrence (1912), Paterson (1913), and Passaic (1926) textile strikes, in which she and other agitators bridged ethnic, gender, and age differences to unite workers. She crusaded for civil liberties and labor rights during the Palmer Raids, the government�s effort to destroy radicalism in the US. She struggled to free two Italian anarchist labor organizers, Sacco and Vanzetti, who were murdered for their beliefs. Flynn also defended IWW songwriter Joe Hill when he was framed in San Francisco and who dedicated the song �The Rebel Girl� to her. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn devoted herself to organizing, especially immigrant and native born women workers in pursuit of their most basic rights.