Progressive Reformers

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    Susan B. Anthony

    Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement
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    Frances Willard

    Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
  • Susan's family

    Susan's family
    Susan grew up in a politically active family, working to the end slavery in the abolitionist movement. Wanting the production and sale of alcohol limited or stopped completely. Because she was a woman, she was denied to speak at a temperance.
  • Frances Willard's family.

    Frances Willard's family.
    Family moved to Ohio from New York then to Wisconsin at age if 3. Father was a member of the legislature. Mother educated at Oberlin College. Frances graduated in 1859 from Evanston College.
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    Jane Addams

    Jane Addams, known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.
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    W. E. B. DuBois

    William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
  • Susan and The Revolution.

    Around 1869, Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan created "The Revolution". "History of Women Suffrage", came after.
  • Susan's Effort.

    Giving speeches around the country to support woman's right to vote. Susan got arrested and tired unsuccessfully to fight back, owing $100, which was never paid.
  • Frances' presidency

    Frances Willard chose to leave the University and accepted the presidency of the Chicago Women's Christian Temperance Union. She would push to get the organization to endorse women suffrage as well as temperance.
  • Jane Addams' early life

    Jane Addams' early life
    Jane's mother died, therefore, she was raised by her father, whom sent her to college. Her father was a successful businessman. The same year she graduated, her father died, which impact her life and caused her to drift away for a few years.
  • Jane Addams & The Hull House.

    She purchased a rundown mansion in Chicago, called Hull House. First program gave Italian immigrants the chance to hear a novel read aloud in Italian and to photographs of Italy. The even failed. Moving on, a kindergarten for immigrants young children.
  • Jane Addams Hull House's purpose.

    Help the poor and also give educated young middle class women the chance to learn new skills and study social work, which attracted many talented people.
  • DuBois Graduates with Phd from Harvard.

    DuBois Graduates with Phd from Harvard.
  • DuBois NAACP

  • DuBois helped organize a Pan-Africa Conference in France

  • Jane Addams' hard work.

    Wrote articles and books and gave speeches all over the world. In the end, she caused peace, becoming the president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
  • After Susan.

    After Susan's death in 1906, women still owned their rights to vote. Until 14 years after her death, the 19th Amendment was passed. Making her the first woman to be honored.
  • DuBois joined the U.S. Communist Party and left the United States to live in Ghana, Africa.

  • Frances endorsement.

    Willard endorsed the idea that the organization should "do everything": work not only for temperance, but also for woman suffrage, "social purity" and other social reforms. She depicted the liquor industry as ridden with crime and corruption, and men, women, and children as victims of alcohol.