Ray Stannard Baker was born on April 17th, 1870. He graduated from Michigan State University where he studied law and literature. After graduating from Michigan State University he began working for the Chicago record where he remained there for 6 years as an editor and reporter. From there on, Ray was exposed to the poor, homeless streets of the starved residents of Chicago. At first, Ray wasn’t as affected towards the poverty of Chicago because he believed the starved, poor people should stop being lazy and get to work to get out of their run downed neighborhood; however, his attitude changed when he tried so effortlessly to get a job for the “Potato-Car Boy,” which then the situation haunted him forever; therefore, he began to write a novel that centered the youth he had tried to help find a job for. …show more content…
Equally important, Ray Stannard Baker teamed up with other Muckrakers such as William A. White, Lincoln Steffends, and Ida Tarbell to start the radical American Magazine; however, many journalists criticized the magazine of muckraking journalism.
As a result, Theodore Roosevelt responded by issuing a legislation that would tackle some of the problems Ray Stannard Baker and the rest of the Muckrakers who were tackling issues among America. Ray Stannard Baker later went on to work on other projects, such as the Wilson project for 14 years and handling 5 tons of the President’s personal papers. Ray won himself a Pulitzer Prize for his biography on Woodrow Wilson and died on July 12, 1946.
In conclusion, Ray Stannard Baker Muckraking reported on controversial topics that set forth his role as a muckraking journalism; iunion strikes, poverty in Chicago, and racial