Fought for anti-lynching and African-American equality

Pushed for African-American equality through higher education

Exposed corruption through political cartoons

Sought to educate African-Americans for trade professions

Supported numerous causes especially unions and child labor was also known as a "Hellraiser"

Used his camera to expose child labor

Was wealthy and was able to support many progressive causes such as working conditions and child labor

His camera exposed life in the tenements

Evils of monopolies were exposed in her writings

Unsanitary meat-packing factories were exposed in the book "The Jungle"

She was passionate about the lives of immigrants and the working poor in communities