Jacob Riis
A world changing muckracker
The early life of Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis was a very generous nice person. He was influenced by his father also authors. He fell in love with a wealthy local women (Elizabeth Gortz) but was not allowed to marry her.
Why was Jacob Riis a muckracker?
Jacob Riis was a muckraking journalist. He would take pictures of tenements, slums and poor living conditions. He first published a book in 1889, it was called "How the other half lives". It caught the peoples eyes and drew a lot of attention to it. People were shocked at how poorly the living conditions were. His goal was to fix the city, and he succeeded because after the book was published, the NYC police commissioner closed down all the lodging houses that Jacob Riis had put in the book.
Jacob Riis was not a ProgRIISive
How the other half lives
This book was the book that Jacob Riis wrote to expose the scummy/poor living conditions. It worked. A lot of the tenements got shut down.
Tenemant houses
These are the houses that a lot of families lived in. They were pretty crammed in and very scummy. He photographed them and put them in his book.
Jacob Riis
This is a picture of Jacob Riis. Jacob Riis was a very successful muckraker. He wrote the book How the other half lives.
Jacob Riis The Muckraker
Jacob Riis' Accomplishments
He shut down a lot of scummy run down places like tenement houses. He documented bad living conditions and made a book called "how the other half lives". It was a very successful book.
I wanted to research Jacob Riis
I wanted to research Jacob Riis because I would like to learn more about him and his personal life. Also I wanted to know how he got up all the courage to publish a book about slums.