Following The Color Line, By Ray Baker

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Ray Baker went to Michigan State University to study law, but later changed his studies and went into literature and journalism. After college the first job he got was in Chicago as a newspaper reporter. He was famous for his muckraking articles. He also helped Ida Tarbell revel Rockefeller unethical. As a progressive he tried to convince people to support the social reform. meeting with President Wilson, he believed he found the political candidate worthy for the position.
He married Jessie Beal and had two children. He was also the first important journalism to look at the racial divide in the United States. He wrote the famous book called Following the Color Line, which was about the racial problems at the time, he explained how the African

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