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 David Thoreau, Susan B. Anthony, Wil- liam Lloyd Garrison, and 200+ patriots who dumped 342 chests of British tea into Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773, to protest the Townshend Act. It was in Boston that David Walker published ...
... Keith McHenry LEARN MORE www.foodnotbombs.net Food Not Bombs by C. T. Butler , Keith McHenry , and Howard Zinn ( See Sharp , 2000 ) Concord Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience ED Monument Square Massachusetts 19.
... David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience ED Monument Square ( jail torn down ) , Main Street and Lexington Road , Concord , MA 01742 In July 1846 , midway through his stay at Walden Pond ... HENRY DAVID THOREAU It is never too 20 New England.
... Henry David Thoreau in what became the seminal work of the American environmental movement: Walden; Or Life in the Woods. On Independence Day 1845, needing time and silence to work on A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thoreau ...
... Thoreau's bed, desk, and Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a mil- lion count a half-dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail. —Henry David ...
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