Question

Which was the main concern of the reformer Florence Kelley? African American women prohibition child labor higher education for women

Answer 1

Florence Kelley sacrificed her lifetime for the purpose of Social amelioration. She pronounced her support for labor welfare and abolition of discrimination based on ethnicities and race.

She visited many garment shops which were too dark and children who were of three years were made to work in sweat shops to assist the garment factories. She voiced against this harassment and banned child labor.

She also fought for the laborers to be paid fairly and shorten the working hours for the laborers. She also became the President for Women Suffrage Association and fought for women rights.

Answer 2

Child Labour is the correct answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Florence Kelly was American social reformer who coined the term wage abolitionism. She worked for minimum wage, children's rights and eight hour workdays. she was the first general secretory of National consumers League and also helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

Kelly was a member of intercollegiate Socialist society and worked for the African american civil rights and women suffrage and was a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. She surveyed the working condition in the local factories in Illinois and found three or four year children working in sweatshops and presented the report to the Illinois state legislature. It led to prohibition on the working of children below the age of fourteen.