National Consumer's League

Children's Bureau

Between 1899-1908 Florence Kelley moves to New York to lead the National Consumer's League. She wants to bring back the minimum wage and limiting hours. She succeeds on bringing them back after the Oregon law limits women's wage to 10 hours a day.

In 1912 she contributes to find the Children's Bureau. Kelley moves to the Henry Street Settlement in New York and works with Lilian Wald while she's there. Congress passed the Sheppard Towner Act which helped mothers and children with health care programs and federal funding.

National Consumer's League: Private group who stood for child labor, privacy, food safety, and medication information.

Children's Bureau: Agency part of the Labor Department in which help prevent child abuse.

Lilian Wald: an activist, nurse, author who fought for women rights.

Josephine Lowell: charted the National Consumer's League.

1899-1908

1912