Progressive Reformers

Encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP

• Booker T. Washington

• WEB Du Bois

• Francis Willard

• Malcom X

Known for: conservationism, trust-busting, safe food regulations, "Square Deal,"

• William McKinley

• William Taft

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Theodore Roosevelt

An early leader of the women's suffrage (right to vote) movement, co-founded the National Women's Suffrage Association

• Susan B. Anthony

• Francis Willard

• Betty Friedan

• Oprah Winfrey

Shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago.

• Lincoln Steffens

• Booker T. Washington

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

The "Great Commoner", and the democratic party's nomination in 3 elections. Known for being a very influential Populist and promotion of free silver

• Gifford Pinchot

• William Jennings Bryan

• William McKinley

• William Taft

Organized Union Farm Workers (UFW); help migratory farm workers gain better pay & working conditions

• Cesar Chavez

• Delores Huerta

• Martin Luther King Jr.

• Robert Benavidez