Transcript Florence Kelley

Sep. 12th, 1859 - Feb. 17th, 1932
 Father: William Darrah Kelly
 Mother: Caroline Bartram Bonsall
 Siblings: two brothers, five sisters
 Education:
• Cornell University
• University of Zurich
• Northwestern University
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Develop maternal & child health services
 Reform child labor
 Enforce mandatory school attendance
 Provide protective legislation for working
women
 Establish minimum wage laws
 Legalize a 10-hour working day for
women
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Child Labor Reform
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Midnight tour of
factories
Saw young boys
working in making
glass & steel
Child Health Services
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Mother’s painstaking
grief
Only survivor of five
other little girls from
her mother
Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics, held
factory inspector position
 Intercollegiate Socialist Society,
president from 1913-1920
 National Woman Suffrage Association,
served as Vice President
 National Consumers’ League (NCL),
served as Secretary, headed for 34 years

New York Child Labor Committee
 National Child Labor Committee
 National Association for Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP)
 Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom
 Women’s Trade Union League
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Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906
 Children’s Bureau of 1912
 Sheppard-Towner Maternity & Infancy
Protection Act of 1921
 Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
 Supreme Court ruling in Muller vs. Oregon

Gave lectures at the Hull House
 Wrote essays on socialism & industrial
problems
 Published ‘Some Ethical Gains Through
Legislation’ (1905) & ‘Modern Industry in
Relation to the Family, Health, Education,
Morality’ (1914)
 Organized 60 different leagues in 20
states, plus 2 international conferences

Kennedy, David M., ELizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The
American Pageant A History of the Republic Advanced
Placement Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006.
Print.
"Florence Kelley: A Commitment to Social Work." Webster
University. Web. 16 Feb. 2010.
<http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/kelley.html>.
"Florence Kelley -- A Woman of Fierce Fidelity." Boise State
University. Web. 16 Feb. 2010.
<http://www.boisestate.edu/SOCWORK/DHUFF/history/extras
/kelly.htm>.