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Ida Tarbell
Ida Tarbell was born in western P.A. Ida Tarbell was the duaghter of an independant oil producer. Her fathers iol company whent backrupted when John D. Rockefeller's Oil Company began ruining independant iol companies. Ida Tarbell was furious. Ida Tarbell entered Alleganie College as the only female student to inrule in a class of forty. After graduation she graduated she became a writer about Standard Oil's business practices. -
W.E.B. Du Bios
W.E.B. Du Bios was born in 1868 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. He attended Sunday school with African American and white children. People raised money for him to go to colleger he became the first African american to earn a docterate from Harvard. He later wrote a book called "The Souls of Black Folk." -
Florence Kelly
Florence Kelly worked tirelessly on improving working conditions for children and women. She helped persuade the Illinios Legislater in 1893 to prohibit child labor and limit the number of hours women could work. In 1904 Kelly helped orgineze the National Child Labor Committee. By 1912 child labor laws where past in 39 states. -
Education
Education in the 1900 through the 1920 started to change. In the 1900's very few women whent to collage and mostly only men whent. The over all percentage of all the people who whent to college was only 2.3 percent. In the 1920's more women starteed to go to college. The over all percentage of people going to college in 1920's was 4.7 percent. -
Daniel Burnham
Burnham was a leading architect and city planner in 1909. He produced a magnificent plan for redisighning Chicago. It was the first comprehensive plan for redesigning a U.S. city. A quote said by Burnham was "make no little plans."
