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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... citizens. A Note on Selection There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. —Franklin Delano Roosevelt I have cast a fairly wide net in selecting the histories in this book. I have tried to include as many ...
... citizens later plastered “Don't Blame Me—I'm from Massachusetts!” bumper stickers on their cars. And in 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in Goodridge v. Department of Health that gay and lesbian couples should be ...
... Citizens . ( Guth- rie's youthful indiscretion might have been one of the best things that ever happened to this community . ) Every May the Guthrie Center hosts a 6.3 - mile Garbage Trail Walk to raise money for Huntington's disease ...
... citizens of New Hampshire are a crusty , cantanker- ous bunch — people like Dorris Haddock of Dublin . In the late 1990s , as Congress began consideration of what would later be known as the McCain– Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill ...
... citizen to ride into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle, and was selected from among 11,500 other teachers who wanted the chance. After six months of training she boarded the Challenger on January 28, 1986, while her students watched on ...
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