Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Ralph Chaplin
Born: 1887
Died: 1961 (aged 74)
Bio: Ralph Hosea Chaplin was an American writer, artist and labor activist. At the age of seven, he saw a worker shot dead during the Pullman Strike in Chicago, Illinois. He had moved with his family from Ames, Kansas to Chicago in 1893.
Known for:
- Bars and shadows (1922)
- The Centralia Conspiracy (1920)
- BARS & SHADOWS THE PRISON POEM