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Jacob Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914): Journalist, Photographer, Social Reformer
By Catherine A. Paul
“‘Are you not looking too much to the material condition of these people,’ said a good minister to me after a lecture in a Harlem church last winter, ‘and forgetting the inner man?’ I told him, ‘No!
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For you cannot expect to find an inner man to appeal to in the worst tenement house surroundings. You must first put the man where he can respect himself.’” – Jacob Riis
Jacob August Riis was born May 3, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark and died May 26, 1914 in Barre, Massachusetts.
Riis was a notable American newspaper reporter, social reformer, and photographer. His most famous work, How the Other Half Lives(1890), shed light on the plight of the slums in New York City (“Jacob Riis: American journalist,” n.d.).
When he was 21 years old, Riis immigrated to America.
As a recent immigrant, he took many types of jobs, which showed him the many sides of his