https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3 Muckraker Assignment en-us 2017-08-22 16:38:01 UTC 2017-08-22 19:22:01 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174708 Lincoln Stephens was born on April sixth, 1866. He died on August ninth, 1936. He had a successful career as a reporter in New York, Stephens also wrote a book called The Shame of the Cities. Lincoln was a muckraker. He investigated the corruption of politics and how politicians won elections by bribing and threatening many voters. He was trying to fix that corruption of American politics. Stephens was exposing the politicians by making many articles to show the citizens of America how these politicians were actually operating.]]> 2017-08-22 18:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174708 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174714 By: Cassandra Richerson
Life span 1866-1936
Job reporter
Lincoln Steffens was trying to fix the social problems that presented themselves. He was exposing it by writing a book called "The Shame of the Cities".

]]> 2017-08-22 18:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174714 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174745 By Jaya

Jacob Riss was a pioneer in the use of photography as a muckracker. Riss was born in 1849


]]> 2017-08-22 18:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174745 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174780 By: Audi Rairdin
(May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914)
Birthplace: Ribe, Denmark
  He was a photographer and journalist who photographed buildings in poor conditions where poor urban people lived. After Jacob became friends with Theodore Roosevelt as he became future president Theodore closed the worst lodging. He also created a book called "How the Other Half Lives". 

]]> 2017-08-22 18:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174780 997371 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174802 Spargo was born on January 31, 1876 in the small village of Longdowns.  He trained as a stonecutter, but later became a minister. He was a very self- educated man. He was big on child labor, and showing how horrible it was. He published a book on child labor called, "The Bitter Cry of Children". He also wrote a book about child nutrition called, "Underfed School Children". Spargo helped change people's view points on many things and is still changing lives today]]> 2017-08-22 18:56:14 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174802 1010493 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174998 Helen Hunt Jackson was born October 14, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts then passed August 12, 1855. 
 
Helen was trying to help the Native Americans get land back to them. She helped multiple tribes including The Ponca tribe. She exposed the government by writing books about the topic including "A century of Dishonor". ]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:04 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182174998 1009099 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175020 By Kaela Lorenzen 
1878-1938
He was an American writer. He wrote nearly 100 books. Upton Sinclair received fame when he wrote the book "The Jungle" in 1904. This book had exposed the sanitary conditions of inside a meat packing industry. This caused public uproar in society. This later on in 1906 lead to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. 


]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175020 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175026 Kelly LeVier

Helen Hunt Jackson was an American poet and writer and became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S government. She was born on October 15th, 1830 and died on August 12th, 1885. 
She has wrote several books such as "Ramona" "A Century of Dishonor" and "Glimpses of Three Coasts" Her book Ramona focused on the mistreatment of Native Americans by the government.

]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175026 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175032 By: Lydia Zink

Frank Norris (born March 11th, 1870; died October 25th, 1902) was best known for his work as a naturalist, although he started his occupation by studying paintings in Paris before realizing that wasn't his cup of tea. One of Norris' most notable books, "The Octopus", focused on the struggle wheat growers had against intruding railroad companies. The next two books  in the trilogy focused on dealing on the economic problems caused by the monopolistic government.]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175032 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175050 Drew Prentis

John Spargo was a biographer and an expert in the history and crafts of Vermont. He explained that it was pointless to try and teach hungry children. John was also concerned of the child labor in factories in the United States and Britain. He helped put child labor laws into effect. Spargo was a founding member of the Socialist Party of America to work against child labor. He also helped in working against women sufferage  and African American rights.]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175050 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175136 Jace Zoucha

Born on March 5, 1870 and died on October 5, 1902 he was a American journalist during the progressive period one of his works were the octopus: The story of California which was about the conflict between wheat growers and a railway company. ]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175136 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175160 Weekly editor of Atlanta Journal Constitution. Wrote "keys to the city" A book about  the influences of political bosses on Atlanta Politics. She was also a early civil rights activist]]> 2017-08-22 18:57:44 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175160 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175361 Morgan Hickey

Frances Kellor was an investigator and reformer who aimed to improve the immigrant conditions during the 20th century. She was born in Columbus Ohio, she only took 2 years of highschooland had a job on a local newspaper. Frances Kellor's publications allowed her to gain recognition about black, South, and European immigrants problems. Kellor and her associated started the National League for Protection of Colored Women which became one of the three agencies that helped immigrants with adjustment to the Urban life. ]]> 2017-08-22 18:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175361 1021142 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175368 Devin Sparks
Born in lancing Michigan April 17th 1870
RayBaker was a noted muckraking journalist before he became the official biographer of Woodrow Wilson, in 1892 Ray went to work for the Chicago Record for 6 years he remained a reporter and journalist for muckrakers later on he wrote books and others such as "Following The Color Line"]]> 2017-08-22 18:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175368 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175520 By:Dylan Altman

Ida Tarbell (November 5, 1857)-(January 6, 1944), was an author, teacher, and journalist.
Ida reported John D. Rockefeller was using ruthless methods to ruin his competitors while at the same time charging higher prices. She expresses this through reporting in "The History of Standard Oil", a book written by her.

]]> 2017-08-22 18:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175520 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175555 Jonathan Stafford

Born May 1847, died September 1903 
Reporter for Chicago Tribune
Henry D Lloyd exposed the instustrial monopoly for the standard oil company and railroad companies. His most famous book is called "Weath Agaisnt Commonwealth", he also wrote "Atlantic Athlete". Henry D Lloyd attacks helped the public realize they need an anti trust legislative.
 ]]> 2017-08-22 18:59:15 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175555 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175593 By: Riley Ensser
Nellie Bly was a reporter in New York City. After posing as an insane patient in an asylum, she wrote an exposé called "Ten Days in a Madhouse" to reveal to her readers how brutally abused mental patients were in their institutions. She was able to influence the government to raise funding for the New York asylum system. ]]> 2017-08-22 18:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175593 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175686 By Ian Rudner
John Spargo was a writer that based his novels on the subject of child labor in companies. He was born in Cornwall, England. John made the book "The Bitter Cry of Children". The book was about child labor and exposed the problems by going into one of the child labor companies and talking about the working conditions, saying that he was horrified. He helped woman's suffrage and African American rights.

]]> 2017-08-22 18:59:55 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175686 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175723 Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) was born in Maryland. Of his time, he was a well-known activist, author, and journalist. He published his groundbreaking book The Jungle in 1904. This book gave a wholly unsavory look at the meatpacking industry in Chicago, Illinois. His book became an instant bestseller and led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.]]> 2017-08-22 19:00:03 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175723 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175761 Mackenzie welsh
Nelly Bly was born in Virginia and later moved to New York City. She was a reporter and a good one at that. She once traveled 72 days for an expose. She died at 57. 

Nellie was a reporter for the New York News and worked to expose many problems. One of her earliest works was a piece describing the conditions inside an asylum after she had posed as a mental person for ten days.The piece shed light on a number of disturbing conditions at the facility, including neglect and physical abuse, and ultimately spurred a large-scale investigation of the institution as well as much-needed improvements in health care. She later got her series published called "Ten days in a mad house." 





]]> 2017-08-22 19:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182175761 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176151 Ethan Fey

Started a news paper allowing him to report on politics, war and peace. Kept his four page paper the " I.F. Stone's Weekly" afloat for two decades.
He was born in 1907 and changed his name to avoid criticism in his personal life.
He did not fear the government and was not afraid to show the corruption that was taking place.

His extensive research was a role model for lesser journalists.

]]> 2017-08-22 19:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176151 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176225 By Anna Leenerts 
Ida was one of the leading muckrakers. She was an American teacher, author and journalist. She wrote a series of articles about the Standard Oil Company and John D. Rockefeller's business practices. The book was called "The History of the Standard Oil Company". In her book she exposed the company's practices. Her book created a new style of investigative journalism.]]> 2017-08-22 19:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176225 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176236 Jessica Mitford was an immigrant from the United Kingdom who wrote "The American Way Of Death". This book was an expóse of the abuses and the corruption in the funeral home industry. This lead to congressional hearings on the funeral industry. ]]> 2017-08-22 19:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176236 10001311 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176260 By Gabriel Perry
Born on December 8, 1870, Hendrick worked as editor of newspaper businesses "The Yale Courtant" and "New Haven Newspaper". Hendrick left those businesses to work as a muckwraker for McClure Magazine. He won awards for his books "The Victory at Sea", "The Life and Letters" of Walter H.  Page, and "The Training of an American". In 1919, Hendrick's novel "Age of Big Business" provided an outlook to the rise of U.S. Government power. Hendrick died on March 23, 1949.]]> 2017-08-22 19:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176260 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176476 By Nathan Harding

I F stone was famous for his newsletter I F Stone weekly it got the second highest in the sustained press in the century. He actively voiced his against his opinion against the war in Iraq. He spoke at rallies against the Vietnam war

]]> 2017-08-22 19:02:43 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176476 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176539 By Carter Meister. Jacob Riis focused his work in photography towards the rat infested and unsafe tenement buildings where homeless and poor lived. He produced many works between 1890 and 1903. He helped bring his work to the public by writing books(one of which being "How the other half lives") and posting his articles in newspapers. Due to the publics reactions to his work many reforms were made to help fix these cities and communities.]]> 2017-08-22 19:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176539 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176738 By Grace Brown
Frances Kellor was born October 20th 1873. She worked for the New York State Immigration Commission and Bureau of Industries and Immigration of New York State. She wanted to improve immigrant conditions and believed everyone working in factories should be able to speak and understand English to keep accidents from happening. She worked on National Americanization day being held on July 4th 1915 and over 150 cities supported her. She wrote a book called "Immigration and the Future" in 1920 which discussed how the views of immigration have changed over time and that immigrants have a large impact on investment and business.]]> 2017-08-22 19:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182176738 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182177579 By Laura Lamarche & Tristin Seals

Henry Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847. In 1872 Lloyd joined the "Chicago Tribune" , gaining the promotion to chief editorial writer 1875. He is against monopolistic abuses and defended haymarket anarchists. In 1894 his book "Wealth Against Commonwealth" was published.]]> 2017-08-22 19:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182177579 https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182177955 By Aidan graham
William Thomas Stead was born on July 4, 1849 and died on April 15, 1912. He was a writer who advocated political and social change. He was also known for reportage of child welfare, and social legislation and reformation of England's criminals codes.]]> 2017-08-22 19:09:03 UTC https://padlet.com/christophercurry05/dmu9r0ljo0s3/wish/182177955