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Lewis Hines

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The number of children under the age of 15 who worked in industrial jobs for wages climbed from 1.5 million in 1890 to 2 million in 1910.

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He began to portray the immigrants who crowded onto New York’s Ellis Island in 1905

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He photographed the tenements and sweatshops where the immigrants were forced to live and work. These pictures were published in 1908 in Charities and the Commons.

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To raise awareness of the abuses of child labor, the NCLC hired sociologist Lewis Hine to photograph children working in fields, factories, mines, and city streets. His photos - - and reports, produced between 1908 and 1924, fueled public opinion and inspired Congress to enact national child labor legislation.

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In 1909, he published the first of many photo essays depicting working children at risk. In these photographs, the essence of wasted youth is apparent in the sorrowful and even angry faces of his subjects

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H.R. 8234, A Bill to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor (Keating-Owen Act), January 17, 1916

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By 1916, Congress passed the Keating-Owens Act that established the following child labor standards: a minimum age of 14 for workers in manufacturing and 16 for workers in mining; a maximum workday of 8 hours; prohibition of night work for workers under age 16; and a documentary proof of age.

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Hine served as a photographer with the Red Cross. He remained with the Red Cross in the Balkans, and in 1919 he published the photo story The Children’s Burden in the Balkans.

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By 1920 the number of child laborers was cut to nearly half of what it had been in 1910.

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In 1930, he was commissioned to document the building of the Empire State Building in New York City, photographing the 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants, who worked at dizzying heights with little or no safety equipment.

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The Act was declared constitutional in 1941 by the U.S. Supreme Court. The law that doesn’t allow students to work before 16 and was initially started by Lewis Hine.

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In the 1940s he was called to Washington to photograph how life really was for African Americans on the streets. He was called by Roy Striker who believed Gordon could combat racial discrimminaton.

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He would photograph the great leaders of the civil rights era, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver, and those who rallied behind them.

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Documented the reality of life under segregation in the Jim Crow South.

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In August 1963, Danny’s photographs helped secure justice for over 30 teenage girls active in the Movement in Americus, Georgia. They had been jailed in the Leesburg Stockade for 45 days with little food or sanitation.

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Lyon's inspiration was real people in the madness of real life. His goal was to capture the way real people lived, rather than the glossed over version that TV and mainstream media presented. He is known for his documentation of social, economic and civil rights issues.

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In 1962 Danny Lyon became the original staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which is a national assembly of college students who had joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments of the Civil Rights Movement.

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In 1971 Danny Lyon's most well known photo essay collection Conversations with the Dead was published. He took photographs of prison life

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In 1962 Danny Lyon became the original staff photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which is a national assembly of college students who had joined together after the first sit-in by four African American college students at a North Carolina lunch counter. From 1963 to 1964, Lyon traveled the South and Mid-Atlantic regions capturing telling moments of the Civil Rights Movement.

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In August 1955, a 14-year-old black boy named Emmett Till from Chicago visited his relatives in Money, Mississippi, and was brutally murdered by whites

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news publications throughout the United States that wanted to serve or defend the African-american communities. Their main goal was for education to become a key to equality. These newspapers were a sign of their freedom. After the Civil War, the black press dedicated itself to rebuilding black communities and black political movements.

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Shames was a photographer who's main focus was on the awareness of social issues. in 1984 Shames traveled across America photographing the lives of five children in the United States who live below the poverty line.

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Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America 

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Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America 

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In 1991 his photographs from traveling across the U.S. were all put together in a book named Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America. His photographs were seen on New York Times and Los Angeles Times.