An edition of Working Americans, 1880-2006: Social Movements (Working Americans 1880-1999)
(2000)
Working Americans, 1880-2006.
1st ed.
by Scott Derks
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Focuses on American men and women, from all walks of life, who initiated or participated in social movements, standing up for something they believed in-for themselves, their families, the human race.
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Protest movements, Social movements, Occupations, Social classes, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Labor, Working class, History, United states, social conditions, Middle class, united states, Social classes, united states, United states, economic conditions, Working class, united states, Labor, united statesPlaces
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Working Americans, 1880-2006: Social Movements (Working Americans 1880-1999)
November 2006, Universal Reference Publications
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1592371019 9781592371013
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Working Americans, 1880-2006
2000, Grey House Publishing, Universal Reference Pubns, Grey House Pub.
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1891482815 9781891482816
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Millerton, NY
Table of Contents
1880-1899: Child welfare; Women's health; "The child's dearest playmate;" Child labor
1900-1909: Anti smoking campaign; Public health/food additives; Animal conservation; "The automobile in America"
1910-1919: Suffrage; Civil rights; "A strike and its remedies, the conditions rebelled against;" Public health/flu epidemic
1920-1929: Reproductive rights; Immigrant reform; Censorship; "Beware big city's glamouring lure"
1930-1939: Civil rights; Property rights; Prohibition; "Talk about trouble: a new deal portrait of American in the Depression"
1940-1949: Civil rights: internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans; Civil rights: desegregating the military
Refugee rights; "Hold fast! Ye Southern textile workers"
1950-1959
Censorship; Environmental movement; "Desegregation will fail;" Worker rights
1960-1969: Civil rights; Censorship; "Woman as child...notes from the first year;" American Indian activism
1970-1979: Environmental movement; Peace movement; "Interfaith reporter;" Refugee rights
1980-1989: Nuclear-freeze movement; "Charity begins with the homeless;" Animal conservation; Reproductive rights
1990-2006: Rights of the handicapped; Worker rights; Prayer in public schools; Women's rights; "Granny power takes on the Iraq War."
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"A universal reference book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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