Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring LandmarksChicago Review Press, 2008 - 432 pages A Selection of the Progressive Book ClubFrom the sites of famous sit-ins, marches, and strikes to the locales of events that led to landmark Supreme Court decisions, this inspiring travel guide journeys to more than 400 of the places in the United States that are important to progressive politics. Organized by state, it includes the stories of hundreds of women and men of action who, through creativity and hard work, changed American society for the better. Visit the battlegrounds and celebrate the victories of civil libertarians, feminists, African Americans, gays, lesbians, environmentalists, labor organizers, and media activists. Make a stop at the home of abolitionists Levi and Catharine Coffin, Grand Central Station on the Underground Railroad. Check out Alice's Restaurant Church, the namesake of Arlo Guthrie's song protesting the draft. Learn about the first women's convention held by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls at the Women's Hall of Fame. See the site of the Haymarket Riot in Chicago where laborers protested working conditions. Join the many people who pay homage at the grave site of Leonard Matlovich, the gay Vietnam War veteran who fought the U.S. military--and won--when he was wrongfully discharged for homosexuality. Each entry features a listing of books and websites for further information, making this an essential lefty resource. For liberal-minded adventurous travelers, educational family vacationers, and progressives who want to know their history, this book will inspire them to do more than just cast a vote. |
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... Henry Ward Beecher, would go on to be a prominent abolitionist preacher. Their half-sister, Isabella Beecher Hooker, was one of the founders of the New England Woman Suffrage Association. In 1831 the Beechers moved to Cincinnati, Ohio ...
... Henry David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, William Lloyd Garrison, and 200+ patriots who dumped 342 chests ofBritish tea into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, to protest the Townshend Act. It was in Boston that David Walker published his ...
... States and the world. —Keith McHenry Concord Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience Monument Square (jail. LEARN MORE www.foodnotbombs.net Food Not Bombs by C. T. Butler, Keith McHenry, and Howard Zinn (See Sharp, 2000). Massachusetts ...
... Henry David Thoreau took a walk into Concord to join a huckleberry-picking party. Before he found his friends a constable found him, and he asked Thoreau to pay a nine-shilling state tax. Thoreau knew that part of the fee was being ...
... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is nevertoo late to give up your prejudices. Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good forsomething. What's the use ofa house ifyou haven't a tolerable ...
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Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks Jerome Pohlen No preview available - 2008 |