Question

The journalist who created an illustrated book about tenement housing in northern cities that shocked many americans and brought attention to the amount of poverty that existed in the u.s. was?

Answer 1

Jacob Riis

In his 1890 bestseller, How the Other Half Lives, the Danish-born reporter exposed the despairing and squalid conditions under which people lived in the tenement slums. This brought to light the devastating conditions and sparked the need to reform the tenements