Famous Muckrakers
What is a Muckracker?
An investigative journalist of the early 1900s.
Separate-but-Equal
Plessy V. Ferguson
The Commodore--Owned railroads and boats...
Lions, Tigers, Bears, and BOTULISM!
The Jungle
Wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Charging People to Vote
Poll Tax
Advocated for African Americans to fight for equal rights.
W.E.B. Dubois
BURN BABY BURN!
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Investigated Lynchings
Ida B. Wells
Event that resulted in updated fire code and workers rights.
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Donated Libraries and Music Halls
Andrew Carnegie
What are you....a narc?
Muckraker
Lewis Hines investigated this....
Child Labor
Required to be taken to vote, without a proven fifth- grade education or above...
Literacy Test
First Female Congresswoman.....
Jeanette Rankin
Head for the hills the dam is breaking!
Johnsontown Flood of 1889
This muckraker investigated the living conditions of immigrants in New York City.
Jacob Riis
Law that lasted until 1974, in Indiana, and caused 2500 people to be sterilized.
What is Eugenics.
A Temperance Woman (Opposed Alcohol)
50 people, one toilet, no indoor water! It beats the Cossaks.
Tenement Building