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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... established America's first school for the hearing impaired on April 15 , 1817. Class was held in the Old City Hotel on Main Street ( since torn down ) . Three students , including Alice Cogswell , were the first pupils . it Cogswell ...
... established a clinic in New Haven for the sole purpose of getting Griswold arrested , and announced its intentions , “ [ The PPLC ] , with the full backing of the national birth control movement , will take steps as rapidly as possible ...
... established the Samantha Smith Foundation to support youth exchanges between the Cold War superpowers . Ironically , though Smith had been warmly greeted in the Soviet Union , in 1987 the first group of youth from that country to visit ...
... establishing 32 hospitals for the mentally ill , includ- I come as the advocate of help- less , forgotten , insane men and women ; of beings sunk to a con- dition from which the uncon- cerned world would start with real horror ...
... established Massa- chusetts's public school system, basing it on the German model of grouping children by grade level according to age. Today Mann is generally acknowl- edged as the “Father of American Public Education.” Massachusetts ...
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