Agnes Inglis

Agnes Ann Inglis was an American librarian and anarchist activist. Born into a wealthy family, she was radicalized by her work as a social worker and was inspired by the works of Emma Goldman to join the American anarchist movement. She used her inheritance to support the movement, paying into strike funds and for the bail of arrested activists. Following the First Red Scare, she began working at the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan Library. She soon became the head curator of the collection, developing a system of organization that contextualized items by their subject. She devoted the rest of her life to the collection, expanding, organizing and providing public access to it.