The Doctor Who Traced the Dust
In 1910 she bent over factory floors with a notebook, tracing white dust and poison into the lungs of the men who breathed it. She built an entire field to prove a paycheck should not require a slow death.
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The First Woman They Sent East
In 1892 a Chicago bindery worker became the first woman the American Federation of Labor sent east, organizing women in the garment, printing, and shoe trades.
