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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... well. Shortly after the American Revolution began, a group of Episco- palians met in the home of priest John Rutgers Marshall—Glebe House—and elected Reverend Samuel Seabury to be the first Episcopal bishop 8 New England.
A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks Jerome Pohlen. elected Reverend Samuel Seabury to be the first Episcopal bishop in the new United States. Given their negative experiences with the British, the group also ...
... elected to the post - land own- ership was a requirement to vote under the state's 1663 charter . To get around it , the state's 12,000 working - class citizens had drafted a new constitution in 1841 during a People's Convention , and ...
... elected Williams the chief officer, and he used his position to request funds to support the colony's widows, orphans, and the mentally ill who had difficulty making ends meet. And he advocated, in a tract titled The Bloudy Tenent, that ...
... elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as an independent . Vermont's only congressman garnered national attention by highlighting skyrocketing prescription costs after leading bus caravans full of seniors across the U.S. ...
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