Monday, March 11, 2024

A lifelong ‘radical’ indeed! Reform required bare-knuckles politics!

Today the Chicago Tribune published an article about me, Florence Kelley, a lifelong ‘radical’ who fought for worker and women’s rights, which includes mention that in a 1923 FBI report I'd been labeled “a radical all the sixty-four years of [my] life; and that 30 years later Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote that I had “the largest single share in shaping the social history of the United States during the first 30 years of this century.” 

Florence Kelley, circa 1925. (Underwood & Underwood)


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