Season 29, Day 7 - "A Jones for Trivia"

It's Mother week, and today's quiz is inspired by Mother Jones.

Mother Jones

“Get it straight, I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hellraiser.”

Mother Jones (a.k.a. Mary Harris Jones) was an early 20th century American labor activist. Born in Ireland in 1830, she’s said to have earned her nickname in part by wearing old-fashioned black dresses and referring to workers as “her boys” (she also used the slogan “Join the union, boys”). She was called “the most dangerous woman in America” due to her efforts on behalf of striking miners, and a biography of her is subtitled The Miner’s Angel. In 1903, she led a march in protest of child labor. She was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, a.k.a. the Wobblies) in 1905. After martial law was declared during a clash between strikers and mine owners in West Virginia in 1913, she was famously tried in a court-martial along with 47 other civilians. The progressive American magazine Mother Jones is named in her honor.