Progressive Era Reformers
Muckrakers (writers)
name
Book or articles
Samuel Hopkins Adams Wrote for Collier’s Magazine
Reform issue
Exposed patent medicine as a
fraud and a danger to health
Ray Stannard Baker
Wrote for Collier’s Magazine
Following the Color Line
Attacked Jim Crow laws and
lyninchings
W.E.B. du Bois
The Souls of Black Folks,
The Talented Tenth
Theodore Dreiser
Sister Carrie
One of founders of NAACP.
Demanded immediate racial
equality. Broke with Booker T.
Washington
Novelist exposed plight of young
women in the urban environment
William Hard
Wrote newsletters for settlement
houses. Free-lance jounalist
Industrial accidents and child
labor
Henry Lloyd
Wealth Against Commonwealth
Indictment of Standard Oil,
corruption in big business
Frank Norris
Wrote for McClure’s,
The Pit, The Octopus
Railroads and big business
corruption
David Graham Phillips
The Treason of the Senate
Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives
Charles Edward Russell
Lawless Wealth, The Greatest
Trust in the World
Corruption in the US Senate.
Accused both parties of selling
out to big business
1st Photo-journalist. Inner city
poverty in words and images
Beef trust corruption, also
American Tobacco Trust
Upton Sinclair
The Jungle
John Spargo
The Bitter Cry of the Children
Lincoln Steffens
The Shame of the Cities
Ida Tarbell
History of the Standard Oil
Company
Socialist novelist. Wrote about
immigrant life and exposed
horrors of meat packing industry
Socialist, promoted limiting
women and child labor abuses
Public corruption and ties to
business
Attacked Standard Oil monopoly
Social and Labor Reformers
Name
Jane Addams
Area of reform
Hull House founder. Settlement house for aid to poor,
especially immigrant women
John Dewey
Josephine Shaw Lowell
Influential education reformer. Thinking and
reflection vital to education. Estab. Dewey Decimal
system for library organization
Leader National Consumers’ League, lobbied for
legislative protection for women and children.
Supported women’s rights. Worked at Hull House.
Special friend of Jane Addams
Social researcher and reformer. Equal rights of
women on sports issues. Head of NY State Bureau of
Industries and Immigration
New York Consumers’ League founder.
Mary White Ovington
Co-founder of NAACP
Frances Perkins
1st female Sec. of Labor, supported minimum wage
and unemployment insurance
Margaret Sanger
Birth control education for poor women
Rose Schneiderman
Union organizer of garment workers.
Pres. National Women’s Trade Union League.
Florence Kelly
Frances Kellor
Political Reformers
Name
Carrie Chapman Catt
Hiram Johnson
Robert La Follette
Alice Paul
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Area of Reform
Leader of National American Women’s Suffrage
Association.
Progressive Governor of Ca.
Especially wanted to reform railroad corruption
Progressive Gov. of Wisconsin. Advocated primary,
Direct election of senators, referendum, initiative and
recall.
Organized National Woman’s Party . Led final psuf
for vote in 1920
Progressive pres. 1901-1908. Square Deal for
everyone. Three C’s: Conservation, consumer
protection, control of corporations. Ran as 3rd party
in 1912. ( Bull Moose)
“New Nationalism
Progressive pres. 1912-1920
Estab. Federal Reserve, Clayton Anti- Trust, Federal
Trade Commission, “New Freedom”