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**Agnes Ann Inglis** (1870 - 1952) was an
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[anarchist](Anarchism "wikilink") and librarian who became the main
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architect of the [Labadie Collection](Labadie_Collection "wikilink") at
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the University of Michigan.
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## Life
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Born to Scottish immigrants, her father was a
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[doctor](Healthcare "wikilink") and her family was deeply religious and
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conservative. Her father died in 1874, and her mother died in 1899. She
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began to study history and literature at the University of Michigan
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under an allowance from wealth family members. But dropped out and
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became a social worker in Chicago, Detroit and Ann Arbor. She became
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increasingly sympathetic to immigrant workers and became increasingly
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political.
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She met and befriended [Emma Goldman](Emma_Goldman "wikilink") and
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[Alexander Berkman](Alexander_Berkman "wikilink"), performing radical
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activities during [World War I](World_War_I "wikilink") and provided
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money for legal support during the [First Red
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Scare](First_Red_Scare "wikilink") after World War I.
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She befriended Joseph Labadie in 1924 and discovered materials he
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donated to the University of Michigan had hardly been cared for, kept in
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a locked cage. She began to work on the collection, organizing and
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cataloguing it, and sent letters to anarchists across the country asking
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for information, collecting an enormour volume of publications and
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writings for her collection. Including the papers of [Roger
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Baldwin](Roger_Nash_Baldwin "wikilink"), [Elizabeth Gurley
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Flynn](Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn "wikilink") and [Ralph
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Chaplin](Ralph_Chaplin "wikilink"). Her efforts increased the size of
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the collection twentyfold, and she died in 1952.\[1\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Inglis> |