Jacob August Riis
Jacob August Riis was born in Denmark in 1849, he immigrated
to New York in 1870. He was very poor, begged for food and stayed at police
logging houses. Looking for work anything he could do and found nothing. Jacob didn't have a great life when he moved
to the United States, until most things started turning around and get better
for the poor man. Three years go by and Jacob finds a job to be a police
reporter, with the New York Evening Sun. He worked in the most poor and crime
filled area to get good pictures.
Jacob started realizing how poor this part was
and wrote a book called “The Other Half”. Jacob Riis suggested the upper-class
to put more lighting on the roads and playgrounds, he also suggested to put up
houses for the poor to sleep in and make this place New York a better place to
live in. Jacob traveled around trying his best to help out all the poor that
were everywhere and helping the city look and operates better, until he died
May 26th, 1914.
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