Progressive Era Activists

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Jane Addams

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A activist, known for her work in the settlement house movement and co-founding Hull House in Chicago.

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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton

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Leaders in the women's suffrage movement, instrumental in the fight for women's right to vote in the United States.

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Francis Willard

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Reformer for the temperance movement (against alcohol) and president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.

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Julia Tutwiler

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An advocate for education and prison reform in Alabama, known for her efforts to improve conditions for prisoners and expand educational opportunities for women.

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Clara Barton

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A pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross, known for her saving lives during the American Civil War.

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Ida Tarbell

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An muckraker (investigative journalist), best known for her work exposing the unfair practices of the Standard Oil Company. Rockefeller's company

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Ida B. Wells

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A journalist and activist who led an anti-lynching crusade in the United States in the 1890s.

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Upton Sinclair

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An author and muckraker, famous for his novel 'The Jungle' which exposed the harsh and dirty conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry.

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Jacob Riis

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A journalist and photographer who highlighted the poor living conditions in New York City tenements in his work 'How the Other Half Lives.'

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Thomas Nast

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A political cartoonist known for his influential work in the 19th century, including the influencing the arrest of William "Boss" Tweed