Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Grey House Publishing Inc
Published: September 2006
Product Code: R167-78Description The newest addition to the widely-successful Working Americans series, Volume VII: Social Movements explores how Americans sought and fought for change from the 1880’s to the present time.
Following the format of previous volumes in the Working Americans series, the text examines the lives of 34 individuals who have worked—often behind the scenes—to bring about change. Issues include topics as diverse as the Anti-smoking movement of 1901 to efforts by Native Americans to reassert their long lost rights. Along the way, the book will profile individuals brave enough to demand suffrage for Kansas women in 1912 or demand an end to lynching during a march on Washington in 1923.
Each profile is enriched with real data on Income & Job Descriptions, Selected Prices of the Times, Annual Incomes & Budgets, Life at Work, Life at Home, Life in the Community, along with News Features, Key Events, and Illustrations. The depth of information contained in each profile allows the user to explore the private, financial and public lives of these subjects, deepening our understanding of how calls for change took place in our society.
A must-purchase for the reference collections of high school libraries, public libraries and academic libraries.
Please Note: This publisher is in a remote location. As such, it may take up to 4 business days before a hard copy order is able to be shipped from this location.Table of Contents
- 1880-1899 INTRODUCTION
- 1894 Profile: Child Welfare: The Orphan Train
- 1896 Profile: Women’s Health: The Anti-Corset Campaign
- 1898 News Feature: “The Child’s Dearest Playmate”
- 1898 Profile: Labor: The Children’s Jacket Makers’ Strike
- 1900-1909 INTRODUCTION
- 1901 Profile: Health: The Anti-Cigaret League of America
- 1904 Profile: Health: The Pure Food and Drug Act
- 1905 Profile: The Environment: Plume Hunting
- 1907 News Feature: “The Automobile in America”
- 1910-1919 INTRODUCTION
- 1912 Profile: Suffrage: The Kansas Campaign
- 1917 Profile: Civil Rights: Anti-Lynching Silent Protest Parade
- 1913 News Feature: “A Strike and Its Remedies, the Conditions Rebelled
- 1919 Profile: Health: Preventing Another Influenza Epidemic
- 1920-1929 INTRODUCTION
- 1921 Profile: Women’s Rights: Distribution of Birth Control Literature
- 1923 Profile: Immigration: America for Americans
- 1928 Profile: Censorship: Purity for Silent Films
- 1929 News Feature: “Beware Big City’s Glamouring Lure . . . ”
- 1930-1939 INTRODUCTION
- 1932 Profile: Racism: The Scottsboro Case
- 1933 Profile: Property Rights: Taking Charge of the Land
- 1937 Profile: Prohibition: The Fight to Make America Liquor Free
- 1939 News Feature: “Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Americans
- in the Depression”
- 1940-1949 INTRODUCTION
- 1943 Profile: Civil Liberties: Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
- 1946 Profile: Civil Rights: Desegregating the Military
- 1947 Profile: International Aid: Helping Polish Jews
- 1947 News Feature: “Hold Fast! Ye Southern Textile Workers”
- 1950-1959 INTRODUCTION
- 1954 Profile: Freedom of the Press: Banning Comic Books
- 1956 Profile: The Environment: Preserving the National Parks System
- 1956 News Feature: “Desegregation Will Fail”
- 1959 Profile: Labor: The New York Hospital Workers Strike
- 1960-1969 INTRODUCTION
- 1965 Profile: Civil Rights: Selma Alabama Awakens America
- 1966 Profile: Religion: Banning the Beatles
- 1968 News Feature: “Woman as Child . . . Notes from the First Year”
- 1969 Profile: Native American Rights: Fishing Rights
- 1970-1979 INTRODUCTION
- 1970 Profile: The Environment: The First Earth Day
- 1971 Profile: The Peace Movement: Vietnam Vets Against the War
- 1971 News Feature: “Interfaith Reporter”
- 1977 Profile: Refugees: Caring for the Boat People
- 1980-1989 INTRODUCTION
- 1983 Profile: The Environment: Anti Nuclear Power Plant
- 1983 News Feature: “Charity Begins with the Homeless”
- 1986 Profile: The Environment: Spotted White Owl Conservation
- 1989 Profile: Human Rights: Anti Abortion Protest
- 1990-2006 INTRODUCTION
- 1992 Profile: Handicap Access: The Disability Act
- 1996 Profile: Labor: The Immigrant’s Strike
- 2000 Profile: Religion: School Prayer
- 2004 Profile: Women’s Rights: Title IX
- 2006 News Feature: “Granny Power Takes on the Iraq War”
- Index
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