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Susan B. Anthony
women's rights activist- she was a leader of the women's suffrage movement which later led to the 19th amendment being passed -
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)
labor activist- she founded the social democratic party and helped to establish the industrial workers of the world -
John Muir
environmental activist/ journalist- he founded the sierra club and was the organization's first president. he had a large part of the establishment of multiple national parks. -
Robert La Follette
activist- He was a member of the U.S house of representatives then left for the senate. He wanted to drive businesses out of politics, his main target was the railroad industry -
Eugene V. Debs
socialist- he organized the american railway union, he was one of the founders of the industrial workers of the world, and he was the presidential candidate for the socialist party five times. -
Ida Tarbell
muckraker- she wrote "history of standard oil company", exposing the company's way of working -
Carrie Chapman Catt
women's rights activist- she took over the NAWSA in 1900, and helped to get the 19th amendment passed -
Jane Addams
Reforms for the poor- she co-founded the hull house, a home that offered daycare, classes and employment. -
Ida B. Wells
black activist- she founded multiple groups striving for african american justice. She also exposed lynching -
Emma Goldman
activist- she took a part in founding the no conscription league. she was later put in jail for causing riots and advocating the use of birth control -
Margaret Sanger
activist- Margaret was a birth control activist, she also supported using violence to achieve goals, for example she was involved in the Lexington Avenue Bombing. -
Upton Sinclair
Muckraker- he wrote multiple books, The Jungle exposed the conditions and problems of the meat packing industry. This book encouraged the passing of The Meat Inspection Act. -
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Jeannette Rankin
Women's Rights Activist- she was the first woman to serve in the U.S congress. she helped pass the 19th amendment, giving women the right to vote. -
Booker T Washington
Black Activist
-he opened Tuskegee institute, a college for blacks to get an education and learn the skills they needed to get jobs -
Marcus Garvey
Black Activist- founded the UNIA, a nationalist group that later was moved to New York. he encouraged African Americans to create an independent nation in Africa and founded the black star line, a steamship company to take blacks to africa. -
W.E.B.DuBois
Black Activist
- he was the first African American to receive a doctorate from Harvard.
DuBois helped to found the NAACP, a group who wanted nothing more than to have equal rights for all races -
lincoln steffens
muckraker- he was a journalist who exposed the corruption of the government. his writing was put together into a book called the shame of the cities.
