What is Anna Louise Strong?
{{Orphan|date=March 2012}} [[File:Anna Louise Strong 1918.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Anna Louise Strong at the time of her recall from the Seattle School Board in 1918.]] '''Anna Louise Strong''' (November 24, 1885 – March 29, 1970) was an [[Americans|American]] [[journalist]] and [[Activism|activist]] who reported on [[Communism|communist]] movements in the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics|Soviet Union]] and the [[People's Republic of China]]. She also [[wikt:support|supported]] these movements. ==Biography== ===Early years=== Strong was born on November 24, 1885 in Friend, Nebraska. Her father, Sydney Dix Strong, was a minister in the Congregational Church and was a [[missionary]]. She was a very smart child and went through school very fast. She then went to [[Europe]] to study other languages. She first attended [[Pennsylvania]]'s [[Bryn Mawr College]] from 1903 to 1904, then graduated from Oberlin College in [[Ohio]], where she later returned to speak many times. In 1908, at the age of 23, she finished her education and received a PhD in [[philosophy]] from the [[University of Chicago]] with a thesis later published as ''The Social Psychology of Prayer''. She supported child welfare, and traveled around speaking about it. When she came to[[Seattle]] to speak about it in May 1914, more than 6,000 people came per day. At least 40,000 people came on her last day in Seattle. Strong was 30 years old when she returned to [[Seattle]] to live with her father, then pastor of [[Queen Anne Congregational Church]]. She liked the [[progressivism|progressive]] politics that were popular there, which supported [[organized labor]]. Strong also enjoyed [[mountain climbing]]. She organized cooperative summer camps in the [[Cascades]] and led climbing groups up [[Mt. Rainier]]. ===Political career=== When Strong ran for the Seattle School Board in 1916, she won easily because she was helped by women's groups and [[trade union|organized labor]] and because she was known as an expert on child welfare. She was the only f