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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Randall M Miller; Paul A Cimbala |
| ISBN: | 0313288399 9780313288395 |
| OCLC Number: | 32392054 |
| Description: | xviii, 559 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Jane Addams and the settlement house movement -- Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign -- Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union -- Catharine Beecher and domestic relations -- Charles Loring Brace and Children's Uplift -- Earl Browder and American communism -- César Chávez and migrant workers -- Barry Commoner and environmentalism -- Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement -- Eugene Victor Debs and radical labor reform -- John Dewey and pragmatic education -- Dorothea Dix and mental health reform -- W.E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP, and the struggle for racial equality -- Mary Baker Eddy and theological reform -- Charles G. Finney and the evangelical reform impulse -- Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women -- William Lloyd Garrison and abolitionism -- Henry George and utopia -- Washington Gladden and the social gospel -- Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor -- Sylvester Graham and health reform -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the modern civil rights movement -- Rachel MacNair and feminists for life -- Horace Mann and common school reform -- Russell means and Native-American rights -- Harvey Milk and Gay rights -- A. J. Muste and pacifism -- Ralph Nader and consumer politics -- Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement -- Carl Schurz and radical reconstruction -- Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and religious communitarianism -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the women's rights movement -- Norman M. Thomas and American socialism -- Booker T. Washington and Black self-help -- Tom Watson and populism -- Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign -- Harvey Washington Wiley and pure food reform -- Frances Willard and temperance -- Reform chronology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala. |
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