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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... National de Jeunes Sourds in Paris with the goal of returning to Hartford to teach Alice. Gallaudet did return, along with deaf priest Laurent Clerc, and established America's first school for the hearing impaired on April 15, 1817 ...
... National Historic Site, 169 Merrimack Street, Lowell, MA 01852 • (978) 970-5000 Several Polish-born workers at Lowell's Everett Cotton Mills were the first to open and count their pay envelopes on January 11, 1912. When the women ...
... National Historic Landmark, 125 Highland Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 Few abolitionists were as outspoken as William Lloyd Garrison; certainly none were as prolific. Between January 1, 1831, and December 29, 1865, Garrison published The ...
... National Memorial Sculpture Garden The Quadrangle, State. Somerville. Our Bodies, Ourselves truly needed. Eleven women in the group pledged to do something about it. They started by educating themselves on medical issues, and by fall ...
... National Memorial Sculpture Garden The Quadrangle, State and Chestnut Streets, Springfield, MA 01103 Few modern writers have influenced the lives of children as richly as Theodor Seuss Geisel—Dr. Seuss. Geisel was born in Springfield ...
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