Just nine days after chartering the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the New York State Legislature passed the first anti-cruelty law and gave the new ASPCA the authority to enforce it. (By John Osborne)
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Bernadette Zbicky Heiney, "Animal Rights Movement," in Michael Green and Scott Stabler (eds.), Ideas and Movements that Shaped America .... (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015), I: 43.
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