Louise Berger was a Latvian anarchist, a member of the Anarchist Red Cross and editor of Emma Goldman's Mother Earth Bulletin in New York. Berger became well known outside anarchist circles in 1914 after a premature bomb explosion at her New York City apartment (known as the Lexington Avenue bombing), which killed four persons and destroyed part of the building.
Read more about Louise Berger: Early Life, Tarrytown and The Lexington Avenue Bombing, The Manifesto and Life in Soviet Russia, See Also
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