Gabriella Segata Antolini

Gabriella (Ella) Segata Antolini (1899–1984) was an Italian–American anarchist activist.

Personal life[edit]

Antolini was born in 1899 in the province of Ferrara and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1913.^[1]^: 134 Her family worked as contract laborers in Louisiana and later settled in Connecticut, where they found employment in manufacturing. Antolini began working as a factory laborer at the age of fourteen and only received one year of elementary school.^[2]^: 53

Anarchism[edit]

Antolini joined the anarchist movement in 1916 after having prior exposure to the newspaper Cronaca Sovversiva through her brother Alberto,^[3]^[2]^: 53, 70 the same year she married her husband August Segata, a member of Italian rebel organization Gruppo I Liberi.^[2]^: 53 The following year Antolini joined the organization herself.^[4]^: 108 It is through the anarchist movement that she met Carlo Valdinoci, who later became her lover.^[4]^: 110

In 1918 Antolini was arrested for transporting dynamite to Chicago and spent six months in a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri alongside Emma Goldman and Kate Richards O'Hare, who were imprisoned in the same facility.^[2]^: 70 While in jail Goldman and O'Hare became friendly with Antolini, the latter of whom helped Antolini improve her English skills.^[4]^{: 115–117} While Antolini was in prison her husband Segata "vanished from sight" and was believed to have returned to Italy. Historians have no further information on Segata after this point.^[4]^: 121

Following her release, Antolini moved to Detroit, where she met and married a Sicilian man named Jerome Pomilia. The two had a son, Febo Pomilia.^[1]^{: 131–135}

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b Avrich, Paul (1995). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cornell, Andrew (2016). Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-96184-5.
^ Bencivenni, Marcella (2011). Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940. NYU Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8147-0944-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Avrich, Paul (1996). Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02604-6.

[:1-1] Avrich, Paul (1995). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press.

[:0-2] Cornell, Andrew (2016). Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-96184-5.

[3] Bencivenni, Marcella (2011). Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940. NYU Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-8147-0944-3.

[:2-4] Avrich, Paul (1996). Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02604-6.

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