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- 4. became an activist after being removed from a train for sitting in a “whites only” section. She worked as an investigative journalist. She found that many lynchings were caused by economic competition and the threat of lynching was used to intimidate Black people who fought for equality.
- 5. Kelley, a Progressive reformer who was focused on improving working conditions and ending child labor. She was the head of the National Consumers League and worked
- 6. establish minimum wage laws and 10-hour workdays. She also worked to end child labor.
- 8. B. Wells,Black Progressive who was primarily focused on the crime of lynching.
- 9. V. Debs, Labor leader, co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World and a
- 10. Oil monopoly. Tarbell had seen the company crush her father’s business when she was a teen. As a result, she made it her life’s mission to investigate the business practices of Standard Oil and break up the company’s monopoly on the oil industry.
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- 1. in the Socialist Party. He was often jailed for speaking out - sometimes for the rights of workers, and also because he spoke out against WWI. He ran for the presidency four times. In 1912, he won almost a million votes for president.
- 2. T. Washington, Leading Black scholar of the early 1900s. He was also a founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Washington often fell into conflict with other Black leaders, like W.E.B. DuBois, as he did not push for the ending of segregation. He felt that Black people should
- 3. also fought for voting rights for Black women.
- 5. on educating themselves for industrial work.
- 7. Tarbell, Muckraker who was best known for her work towards breaking up the