Women were involved with all the major social and political concerns of the time.
Thousands continued their fight for a ban on alcohol, and others continued to focus on social reforms in the cities.
Many women participated in protests calling for better working conditions in factories and for laws to keep children from being forced to work.
African American women protested lynching, and thousands joined a silent march down Fifth Avenue in 1917 to protest the killing of black people in race riots in Illinois.
Native American, Latina, and Asian American women were concerned with the many restrictions on the rights of their peoples.
In the early 1900s Ida Tarbell was a leading muckraker, the name given to reporters who exposed the dirty behind-the-scenes practices of industrialists and politicians.
Emma Goldman, a radical activist, had photograph taken during a quiet moment of study.