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5 unusual facts about Agnes Inglis


Agnes Inglis

She befriended Joseph Labadie and in 1924 discovered the materials on radical movements he donated to University of Michigan had hardly been cared for.

After her mother's death, Inglis studied history and literature at the University of Michigan, receiving an allowance from her extended family.

She left the university before graduating, and spent several years as a social worker at Chicago's Hull House, the Franklin Street Settlement House in Detroit, and the YWCA in Ann Arbor.

Agnes Inglis (1870–1952) was a Detroit, Michigan-born anarchist who became the primary architect of the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan.

Inglis was the youngest child in a conservative, religious family, and educated at a Massachusetts girls' academy.



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