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Kensington, Pennsylvania
Textile Mill
Textile Mill
"One little fellow had a drum and another had a fife. That was our band. We carried banners that said, 'We want more schools and less hospitals.' 'We want time to play.' 'Prosperity is here. Where is ours?'" —Mother Jones [1] |
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton University
Princeton University
"A great crowd gathered, professors and students and the people; and I told them that the rich robbed these little children of any education of the lowest order that they might send their sons and daughters to places of higher education. I showed those professors children in our army who could scarcely read or write because they were working ten hours a day in the silk mills of Pennsylvania." —Mother Jones [2]
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Coney Island, New York
Bostock's Wild Animal Show
Bostock's Wild Animal Show
"There was a back drop to the tiny stage of the Roman Colosseum with the audience painted in and two Roman emperors down in front with their thumbs down. Right in front of the emperors were the empty iron cages of the animals. I put my little children in the cages and they clung to the iron bars while I talked. I told the crowd that the scene was typical of the aristocracy of employers with their thumbs down to the little ones of the mills and factories, and people sitting dumbly by." —Mother Jones [3]
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Oyster Bay, New York
President Theodore Roosevelt's Home
President Theodore Roosevelt's Home
"We marched down to Oyster Bay but the president refused to see us and he would not answer my letters. But our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child labor." |
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