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W.E.B Du Bois
Born in Great Barring,Massachuetts .He went Hardvard University and was the first black man to have graduate and earn a doctorate. He was a strong supporter of civil rights. He even helped make the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. -
Ida Tarbell
Lived in Western Pennsylvania. She went to colledge then got a job at as a journalist for McClure Magazine. She was in many goverment meetings towards unemployment and industry. Before she died she wrote her autobiography, All in the Day's Work. -
ILGWU
The ILGWU was formed in 1900. ILGWU stands for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union. The Union tried employ or organize unskilled workers. Most of the workers were Jewish and Italian women. -
Labor Laws
Florence Kelley helped organize a committee called the National Child Labor Committee in order to attempt at to persuade state legislatures to pass laws against employing children. By 1912, 39 states had passed the child-labor laws and a majority of the rest limited the hours children were allowed to work to 8-10 hours a day. -
Women and progressivism
In the 1900s more and more women started to apply to colledges. Then in Chicago the school distrect got a new superintendedent, Ella Flagg Young. It was the first time that a woman recieved so much power in cities just like Chicago. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
When some fabric got caught on fire and englufed the 8th gloor The indecent led many women to their death. The women trapped in the workplace died and some even jumped out of the 8th story windows to escape. More then 140 girls died in the fire.
