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Muckraker David Graham Philips believed that the tag of muckraker brought about the end of the movement as it was easier to group and attack the journalists. [ 25 ] The term eventually came to be used in reference to investigative journalists who reported about and exposed such issues as crime, fraud, waste, public health and safety, graft, and ...
The muckraker movement helped to jumpstart numerous reforms that included prison conditions, railroads and church-building conditions. [ 5 ] In Soldier for the Common Good , an unpublished dissertation on Russell's life, author Donald Bragaw wrote, " Historian Louis Filler has called Russell the leader of the muckrakers for contributing ...
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936) was an American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. He launched a series of articles in McClure's , called "Tweed Days in St. Louis", [ 1 ] that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the ...
Henry Demarest Lloyd was born on May 1, 1847, in the home of his maternal grandfather on Sixth Avenue in New York City. [1] Henry was the first child of Aaron Lloyd, a graduate of Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary and minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Maria Christie (née Demarest) Lloyd.
The year 1896 marked the end of Flower's first stint at the helm of The Arena, with the magazine being transferred to the editorship of historian John Clark Ridpath and the writer Helen Hamilton Gardener. [12] Under its new editors, Flower's magazine continued to pursue the same political and ethical mission originally envisioned by its founder ...
Irwin was born in 1873 in Oneida, New York.In his early childhood, the Irwin family moved to Clayville, New York, a farming and mining center south of Utica.In about 1878, his father moved to Leadville, Colorado, established himself in the lumber business, and brought his family there.
Studies in the Scriptures is a series of publications, intended as a Bible study aid, containing six volumes of great importance to the history of the Bible Student movement, and the early history of Jehovah's Witnesses. A seventh volume was published posthumously and was written by other authors.
Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 – February 27, 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York.In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed unorthodox by many which led to lasting controversy, and caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends (the first caused by George Keith in 1691). [1]