History of the United States II / Unit 4 USH2 0457 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How the Other Half Lives
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The idea
In eighteen ninety the journalist Jacob Riis published How the Other Half Lives, exposing New York's slums in words and photographs.
In practice
Photographs of crowded tenement rooms that middle-class readers had never seen.
Where people slip
The Yawp calls the book a scathing indictment of living and working conditions. Riis's photographs made the argument impossible to ignore.
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