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Jacob Riis (1849 –1914), the city editor of the New York Tribune, author and photographer publishes "How the Other Half Lives" graphically describing the squalor of the New York slums.
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John Spargo (1876–1966) published 'The Bitter Cry of the Children' on child labor conditions in the coal mines and the plight of the "breaker boys.”
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Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch (1861–1918) the primary theologian of the “Social Gospel” movement publishes his book 'Christianity and the Social Crisis'.
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Ida B.Wells (1862 – 1931) an African-American journalist, suffragist and Progressive is instrumental in founding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to challenge racial discrimination.
