Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; Or, War on the White Slave Trade (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

The Illinois Vigilance Association was established in 1908 with the aim of upholding the principles of "Purity, Protection, Knowledge and Law". It published a number of works at the beginning of the twentieth-century, including it's most well known; Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls; or, War on the White Slave Trade (1910), edited by Ernest Albert Bell (1865-1928), the first Secretary of the Illinois Vigilance Association and the founder and Superintendent of Chicago's Midnight Missions. It has contributions by Edwin W. Sims, a United States District Attorney, Harry A. Parker, Clifford G. Roe, William Alexander Coote, James Bronson Reynolds, Charles N. Crittenton, Ophelia Amigh, Florence Mabel Dedrick, Lucy A. Hall, D. F. Sutherland, William T. Belfield, Winfield Scott Hall and Melbourne P. Boynton, the President of the Association.