
WORKING AMERICANS 1880-2006
VOLUME VII: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Working Americans 1880-2006 Volume VII: Social Movements 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.
Family Profiles, Historical Snapshots & News Features
- 1894 Profile: Child Welfare: The Orphan Train
- 1896 Profile: Women’s Health: The Anti-Corset Campaign
- 1898 News Feature
- 1898 Profile: Child Labor: The Children’s Jacket Makers’ Strike
- 1901 Profile: Anti-Smoking Campaign: Anti-Cigaret League of America
- 1904 Profile: Public Health/Food Additives: Pure Food and Drug Act
- 1905 Profile: Animal Conservation: Plume Hunting
- 1907 News Feature
- 1912 Profile: Suffrage: The Kansas Campaign
- 1913 News Feature
- 1917 Profile: Civil Rights: Anti-Lynching Silent Protest Parade
- 1919 Profile: Public Health/Flu Epidemic: Controlling the Influenza Outbreak
- 1921 Profile: Reproductive Rights: Distribution of Birth Control Literature
- 1923 Profile: Immigrant Reform: America for Americans
- 1928 Profile: Censorship: Purity for Silent Films
- 1929 News Feature
- 1932 Profile: Civil Rights: 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
- 1943 Profile: Civil Rights: Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
- 1946 Profile: Civil Rights: Desegregating the Military
- 1947 Profile: Refugee Rights: Helping Polish Jews
- 1947 News Feature
- 1954 Profile: Censorship: Banning Comic Books
- 1956 Profile: Environmental Movement: Preserving the National Parks System
- 1956 News Feature
- 1959 Profile: Worker Rights: The New York Hospital Workers Strike
- 1965 Profile: Civil Rights: Selma Alabama Awakens America
- 1966 Profile: Censorship: Banning the Beatles
- 1968 News Feature
- 1969 Profile: American Indian Activism: Fishing Rights
- 1970 Profile: Environmental Movement: The First Earth Day
- 1971 Profile: Peace Movement: Vietnam Vets Against the War
- 1971 News Feature
- 1977 Profile: Refugee Rights: Caring for the Boat People