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¡P Florence Kelley was born in 1859.
¡P Her father took her on a tour of factories that used child labor, and so began her lifelong commitment to helping children in these horrendous and abusive environments.
¡P Educated at Cornell University and the University of Zurich. She read Fredrich Engel's works when she was in Switzerland, and these had a profound influence on her.
¡P After coming back home to the United States, she started out working with Addams and while there, she found children working in abhorrent conditions for clothing manufacturers.
¡P She had a way with words and described the horrible circumstances in writing that has been compared to t...

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