Progressive Reform

By jacob gregory
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    Susan B. Anthony

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    Frances Willard

  • Frances graduated from Evanston College for Ladies

    began a teaching career in more prestigious positions in secondary schools in Pennsylvania and New York
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    Jane Addams

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    W.E.B. Du Bois

  • Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association

    Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association

    created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights
  • Frances Willard was appointed Dean of Women

    Frances Willard was appointed Dean of Women

    became president of the newly formed Evanston College for Ladies when this college merged with Northwestern University

  • Susan B.voted in the presidential election illegally

    Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges. She ended up being fined $100 – a fine she never paid

  • Willard became president of the national WCTU

    she was given the task of corresponding with and traveling to many of the small towns and cities in the United States

  • Frances Willard participated in the founding of the National Council of Women

    served one year as its first president

  • Jane Addams purchased a rundown mansion in Chicago surrounded by tenements

    to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago

  • Du Bois Graduates with Phd from Harvard

    went on to enroll as a doctoral student at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (now Humboldt-Universität)
  • Du Bois NAACP

    Du Bois NAACP

    he co-founded the national association for the advancement of colored people

  • DuBois helped organize a Pan-African Conference

    to free African colonies from European powers
  • Jane Addams became president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

    Jane Addams became president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom

    She backed various social reforms and also became a powerful supporter of women’s suffrage

  • Addams was a founding member of the American Civil Liberties Union

    she embraced the cause of peace

  • Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize

    As part of her commitment to finding an end to war, Addams served as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom from 1919 to 1929

  • DuBois joined the U.S. Communist Party and left the United States to live in Ghana, Africa

    . He died there in 1963

  • the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony’s portrait on one dollar coins

    In recognition of her dedication and hard work