Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was a Yiddish lecturer and writer, and later in life a writer in English. She migrated to New York in 1889 where she was introduced to the society of East Side radicals, socialists, and anarchists in Sachs' Café. She became known as “red Emma” and “the most dangerous woman in America" because of her activism for sexual freedom, birth control, equality and independence for women, radical education, union organization and workers' rights.