Muckraker

Julius Chambers (1850–1920) American journalist and travel writer in 1872

A muckraker is a reporter who investigates and publishes truthful reports involving social,

economic issues, including corruption from political and business leaders. Julius Chambers was a author, editor, journalist, travel writer, and activist against psychiatric abuse in the 1800. He first attended Ohio Wesleyn University and later Cornell University and graduated in 1870. In 1872 he discovers Elk Lake was joint with Lake Itasca to be a source of the Mississippi river for this discovery he became a fellow of the Royal geographical society. He undertook journalistic investigations he obtain information about alleged abuse inmates. When his articles released twelve patients who were not mentally ill, they reorganized the staff and administrations of the institution and he would eventually change the laws in lunacy. Chambers then publish a book called A Mad World and its people in 1976 he were then frequently invited to speak for the rights of the mentally ill. Chambers wrote a column for the Brooklyn Daily eagle and continued writing for the rest of his life. In 1903 until 1904 he was a journalist for Cornell University. He also wrote fiction books and published over a hundred short stories