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Even with her eyesight failing, Lucy Parsons was active in the fight against (47)______ until her death. Continuing to (48)______ crowds, she spoke at the International Harvester Conference in February 1941, one of her last major appearances. An accidental fire killed her on March 7, 1942 at the age of 89. Her lover George Markstall died the next day from wounds he received while trying to save her. To add to this (49)______ , Lucy’’s library of 1,500 books on sex, socialism and anarchy (无政府主义) were mysteriously stolen, along with all of her personal manuscripts. Neither the FBI nor the Chicago police told Irving Abrams, who had come to rescue the library, that the FBI had already confiscated (没收) all of her books. The struggle for fundamental freedom of speech, in which Lucy had (50)______ throughout her life, continued through her death as authorities still tried to silence this radical woman by (51)______ her of the work of her lifetime. Though she joined many different groups throughout her lifetime, Lucy Parsons’’ strong politics and beliefs (52)______ distinctly individual and uncompromising. She never sought less than (53)______ to change the oppressive capitalist system surrounding her. Working with a clear focus from a perspective of class consciousness, Lucy fought with the workers first, seeing (54)______ of sex and race originated in the larger struggle. Because she was a woman of action and strong words, the government and church tried to repress her individual voice, often assigning her to the group of deprived widows (55)______ for misery of life. Yet the legacy of her seventy years of fighting stays with us to inspire our (56)______ struggles today. Word Bank A) remained B) issues C) opinion D) oppression E) complaining F) deal G) robbing H) revolution I) engaged J) combine K) tragedy L) similar M) disguise N) significant O) inspire