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Denis Kearney
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Denis Kearney | was an Irish-born American labor leader who was active in the late 19th century and was known for his anti-Chinese activism. |
| Kelley Florence | was an American social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. |
| Margaret Knight | was a prolific American inventor of machines and mechanisms for a variety of industrial and everyday purposes. |
| Lewis Latimer | was an American inventor and patent draftsman. His work included making the lightbulb more practical and the invention of the telephone. |
| Emma Lazarus | was one of the first successful and highly visible Jewish American authors. She advocated for Jewish refugees and argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland before the concept of Zionism was in wide circulation. |
| Mary Lease | lecturer, writer, and political agitator, daughter of Joseph P. and Mary Elizabeth (Murray) Clyens, was born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, on September 11, 1853. |
| Henry Demarest Lloyd | was a U.S. journalist whose exposés of the abuses of industrial monopolies are classics of muckraking journalism. |
| Belva Lockwood | (1830-1917) was a lawyer, presidential candidate, and women’s rights activist during a time when women possessed limited rights. Widowed at age 22 with a young daughter, Lockwood made the impressive decision to earn a college degree, be |
| S.S. McClure | was born in Ireland and, after coming to the United States in his boyhood, attended Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. In 1893 he founded McClure’s Magazine, a key publication in muckraking journalism. |
| William McKinley | was the 25th president of the United States (1897–1901). Under McKinley’s leadership, the United States went to war against Spain in 1898 and thereby acquired a global empire, which included Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. |