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Chicago's Hull House
Founded in Chicago by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr to become a community of university women whose main purpose was to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people mostly European immigrants -
How the Other Half Lives
A publication of photojournalism by Jacob Riis about the conditions of tenements in New York. It exposed the conditions that the poor lived in. When people saw these bad conditions, it inspired a national reform for tenement housing. -
The Jungle
Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
After the public outcry following the publication of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle the pure food and drug act was passed to protect consumers against the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs. -
NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization to advance justice for African Americans. It was formed by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois,
