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Jacob Riis the city editor of the New York Tribune, author and photographer publishes "How the Other Half Lives" graphically describing the squalor of the New York slums.
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Educator and social reformer John Dewey establishes a “progressive” school in Chicago.
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Frank Norris (1870 – 1902) publishes 'The Octopus: A Story of California' . Writing in the naturalist genre about the conflict between the California wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902 was one of America's largest industrial strikes and saw President Roosevelt act as a mediator.
