Amelia Jenks Bloomer was born in 1818, in Homer, New York. She was a teacher, who married a lawyer named Dexter Bloomer. He had a paper called The Seneca Falls Courier, for which he encouraged Amelia to write articles. She wrote articles in support of women’s rights and prohibition. She joined several temperance groups and […]
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Nellie Bly: Pioneer of Investigative Reporting
Posted by: britnipetersen | November 23, 2009 | No Comment |During a time when women were scorned in the workforce and expected to stay at home, one woman, Nellie Bly, was paving her way into becoming one of the greatest reporters of all time. Nellie Bly, or birth name Elizabeth Cochran, started her career as a writer for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her […]
Once denied the right to learn to read because he was told he “should know nothing but to obey his master, to do as he is told to do,” Frederick Douglass did well to become one of the greatest journalists in American history. Douglass was born a slave in Maryland and separated from his mother as […]
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