Caroline Lowe
Caroline A. Lowe (1874–1933) was a Canadian-American labor and civil liberties lawyer and Socialist Party of America, Socialist activist for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Early life On November 28, 1874, Caroline Lowe was born in Cottom, Essex County, Ontario, Canada. Lowe's family descended from British loyalists from the American Revolutionary War. Lowe's father was an itinerant lumberjack. Lowe grew up in Oskaloosa, Iowa. At age sixteen, Lowe moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Career Lowe taught school for many years and became president of the Kansas City Teachers Association. In 1903, she joined the two-year-old Socialist Party of America in Kansas. As of 1908, she had become a Socialist organizer in Kansas. She worked as a Socialist field worker with miners and their families in Nebraska coal towns. She became a popular Socialist speaker. By 1911, she had become chairwoman and general correspondent of the party's Woman's National Committee. In 1918, she ...
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