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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... Women's suffrage ? Slavery ? Read and take heart — progressives will win in the end . They always do . Susan B. Anthony understood this , for though she would die 14 years before women were guaranteed the right to vote under the ...
... woman named Sarah Harris. Parents and locals were outraged at Crandall's decision. Why? Sarah Harris was black and the other students were white. Crandall had a choice to make. Rather than submit to the racist pres- sure she closed her ...
... November 1 , 1961 , and on November 2 Griswold held a press conference and confirmed that it had provided birth control advice to six women the day before . A day later, James Morris, a night manager of a Connecticut 7.
... women ; of beings sunk to a con- dition from which the uncon- cerned world would start with real horror . -Dorothea Dix , to the Massachusetts legislature ing St. Elizabeth's Hospital (2700 MLK Avenue SE) in Washington, Maine 13.
... woman to hold a position in a presiden- tial cabinet, appointed Secretary of Labor by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR knew Perkins; she'd served as New York's Industrial Commissioner when he was governor. In 1911 she'd witnessed the ...
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