Beautiful Joe was, in fact, written for a contest sponsored by the American Humane Education Society.
While her colleagues, Henry Bergh, who founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1866, and George Angell, who founded the American Humane Education Society in 1889, continue to have much higher profiles, White's animal-rights activism remains a highly useable legacy for SPCAs, humane groups, animal-rights organizations, and anti-vivisection societies.
Together with its affiliate, the
American Humane Education Society, the MSPCA strives to set laws and standards that conform to its notion of "kindness and compassion for animals.
