Social Progressive Era

Henry Ford

1903

First person to perfect and effectively market the automobile. Introduced several innovative practices including the moving assembly lines

Upton Sinclair

1906

A Muckrakers who wrote "The Jungle", which exposed the truths about the US meat packing industry.

W.E.B. Dubois

1909

Founder of NAACP. Proposed Negro Nationalism and believed that African Americans would gain economic paid politial power by educating themselve. (Back to Africa movement)

Jane Addams

1931

A progressive social reformer and activist. Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She later became internationally respected for the peace activism that ultimately won her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American woman to receive this honor.