Florence Kelley, one of Chicago's best-kept secrets, was the first woman factory inspector in the United States, appointed in Illinois by Governor John Peter Altgeld in 1893. Here she reaches out to those of us in the present, drawing attention to those things that have changed, those which have not, and what we can do to continue her work of making a better present and future.
Florence Kelley Live from 1890s Chicago: Always hold your head high. Especially when they—whoever the They is—are saying you can’t do something. And you know it is the right thing to do. And you are going to do it, not just to spite them.
[Credit: Voices from the Field Florence Kelley, Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University]
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