THE PROGRESSIVE ERA 1900 1917
THE MUCKRAKERS OF THE PROGRESSIVE ERA
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The Bitter Cry of Children
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The Right to Work
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The Octopus
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The History of the Standard Oil Company
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ray Stannard Baker was born in Michigan in 1870. He joined McClure’s Magazine, where he worked with Lincoln Steffens and Ira Tarbell in the kind of investigative journalism that became known as muckraking. Baker himself was involved in exposing railroad and financial corruption.
Detailed explanation-2: -In later years, he abandoned the hard-hitting journalism of the McClure’s years, but contined to chronicle the social and political life of the nation. In Following the Color Line (1908) and numerous articles during the 1910s, he was the first prominent journalist to focus on America’s racial divide.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1908, after the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot got him involved, Baker published the book Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy, becoming the first prominent journalist to examine America’s racial divide; it was extremely successful.