New Hampshire Court To Consider Sununu’s Removal of Historical Marker Remembering Prominent American Communist
Supporters are suing to have a historical marker of activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn’s birthplace put back in place.

A legal battle is brewing in New Hampshire over a historical marker erected alongside a highway to commemorate a feminist and labor organizer, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, which was taken down at the behest of Governor Sununu just weeks after being put up.
In May 2023, a historical highway marker for Flynn was installed near where she was born at Concord in 1890. Yet two Republicans on the state’s Executive Council complained about the marker because Flynn advocated for communism, and it was removed within weeks.
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