Witness to Revolution The Story of Anna Louise Strong (1984)

The daughter of a Nebraska minister Anna Louise Strong earned a PhD in philosophy at the University of Chicago But it was in the Pacific Northwest where she witnessed the 1916 Everett massacre and chronicled the 1919 Seattle General Strike that her political vision took shape In Moscow she helped found the first English language newspaper in Spain her many visits resulted in her book Spain in Arms and in China she interviewed Mao in a Yanan cave in 1946 She is buried in Beijing in a special cemetery for martyrs of the revolution