 And Whitney came from one of the oldest families in America, a wealthy family from California. She traced her kin back to the Mayflower. She was the niece of Justice Field, would spend summers with Field. When she was at Wellesley, she went to a settlement house in New York and she saw poverty that she had never witnessed before. And to her credit, she wanted to do something about it. And she ultimately became a communist and also an ardent feminist.