1. CHAPTER5
j u s t i n j o n e s
PEOPLE/TERMS IDENTIFY
2. JACOB Jacob Riis immigrated to the United States
from Denmark in 1870. After years of
extreme poverty and hardship he finally
found employment as a police reporter for
the New York Tribune in 1877. In the 1880s
his work gravitated towards reform and he
worked with other New York reformers
then crusading for better living conditions
for the thousands of immigrants flocking to
New York in search of new opportunities.
His most popular work, How The Other
Half Lives, became a pivotal work that
precipitated much needed reforms and
made him famous.Jacob Riis's photography,
taken up to help him document the plight of
the poor, made him an important figure in
the history of documentary photography.
3. ROBERT LA Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.
nicknamed "Fighting Bob" La
Follette (June 14, 1855– June 18,
1925) was an American politician
who served as a U.S. Congressman,
the 20th Governor of Wisconsin
(1901–1906), and Republican
Senator from Wisconsin (1906–
1925). He ran for President of the
United States as the nominee of his
own Progressive Party in 1924,
carrying Wisconsin and 17% of the
national popular vote.
4. ALICE While in England, Alice met Emmeline Pankhurst,
founder of the British suffrage movement, who
advocated “taking the woman’s movement to the
streets.” Alice participated in more radical protests
for woman suffrage, including hunger strikes and
even three prison terms. She met Lucy Burns in a
London police station after being arrested in a
suffrage demonstration at the entrance to
Parliament. They participated in some
demonstrations together; even getting arrested and
jailed together. Alice also worked at the Dalston
branch of the Charity Organization Society in
London, then the Peel Institute of Social Work at
Clerkenwell, and the Christian Social Union
Settlement of Hoxton. She returned to the U.S. in
January 1910. Lucy returned to Brooklyn in the
summer of 1912.That fall, Alice and Lucy
approached the National American Woman
Suffrage Association (NAWSA), having decided to
join forces toward a constitutional amendment by
directly lobbying congressmen. They were allowed
to take over the NAWSA Congressional Committee
in Washington, D.C., but they had no office, no
budget and few supporters. Alice was only 26 years
old.
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