Download or read book Top 101 Reformers Revolutionaries Activists and Change Agents written by Nicholas Faulkner and published by Encyclopaedia Britannica. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The one thing the revolutionaries in this book have in common is that they fought for change. This book profiles some of the most influential change agents in history. They come from all walks of life, and they include writers, artists, politicians, and musicians, among others. Readers will get a sense of the sacrifices made by others so we can live in the world we do today. They will also learn that it takes only one person, one voice, to change the world.
Download or read book Reformers and Activists written by Nancy J. Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of Indian activism and presents profiles of ten Native Americans who have worked for the rights of their people
Download or read book The Other School Reformers written by Adam Laats and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America’s classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream.
Download or read book Respectability and Reform written by Tara M. McCarthy and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of their communities. For many women, this began with a commitment to Irish nationalism. In Respectability and Reform, McCarthy explores the contributions of a small group of Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era who emerged as leaders, organizers, and activists. Profiles of these women suggest not only that Irish American women had a political tradition of their own but also that the diversity of the Irish American community fostered a range of priorities and approaches to activism. McCarthy focuses on three movements—the Irish nationalist movement, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement—to trace the development of women’s political roles. Highlighting familiar activists such as Fanny and Anna Parnell, as well as many lesser-known suffragists, McCarthy sheds light on the range of economic and social backgrounds found among the activists. She also shows that Irish American women’s commitment to social justice persisted from the Land War through the World War I era. In unearthing the rich and varied stories of these Irish American women, Respectablity and Reform deepens our understanding of their intersection with and contribution to the larger context of American women’s activism.
Download or read book The Other School Reformers written by Adam Laats and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education as the product of courageous progressive reformers, he calls to center stage the conservative activists who decisively shaped America’s classrooms in the twentieth century. The Other School Reformers makes clear that, in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has more often been a beleaguered dream than an insuperable force. Laats takes an in-depth look at four landmark school battles: the 1925 Scopes Trial, the 1939 Rugg textbook controversy, the 1950 ouster of Pasadena Public Schools Superintendent Willard Goslin, and the 1974 Kanawha County school boycott. Focused on issues ranging from evolution to the role of religion in education to the correct interpretation of American history, these four highly publicized controversies forced conservatives to articulate their vision of public schooling—a vision that would keep traditional Protestant beliefs in America’s classrooms and push out subversive subjects like Darwinism, socialism, multiculturalism, and feminism. As Laats makes clear in case after case, activists such as Hiram Evans and Norma Gabler, Homer Chaillaux and Louise Padelford were fiercely committed to a view of the curriculum that inculcated love of country, reinforced traditional gender roles and family structures, allowed no alternatives to capitalism, and granted religion a central role in civic life.
Download or read book Activists Rebels and Reformers written by Phillis Engelbert and published by UXL. This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains entries that provide biographical information about twenty-three men and women who were influential in bringing about social change in countries throughout the world; and features profiles of two organizations also engaged in the struggle. Arranged alphabetically from N-to-Z.
Download or read book Doing Democracy written by Bill Moyer and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.
Download or read book Reformers written by Monique Avakian and published by Steck-Vaughn. This book was released on 2000 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of notable women who have contributed significantly to the fields of education, political activism, and religion, from Halide Edib Adivar to Victoria Claflin Woodhull.
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Download or read book Gentlemen Reformers written by Thomas Austin McMullin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Intellectuals Activists and Reformers written by Barry J. Hake and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Susan B Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights written by Christine L. Ridarsky and published by Gender and Race in American Hi. This book was released on 2012 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements.
Download or read book Fourierist Communities of Reform written by Amy Hart and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fine book and a significant contribution to the study of American Fourierism. Amy Hart's big theme-that her four communal experiments lived on in the post-communal lives of their members-enables her to make fascinating connections between various reform movements...The personal histories come alive on the page thanks to shrewdly chosen quotes and sharp commentary. Dr. Jonathan Beecher, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz Finally, communal women get their due! Amy Hart's meticulously researched and most readable book demonstrates that modern feminism did not begin at Seneca Falls, but was part of a milieu of reform movements, many of which crossed paths frequently with the intentional communities of the first half of the nineteenth century. Dr. Timothy Miller, Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies, University of Kansas This book explores the intersections between nineteenth-century social reform movements in the United States. Delving into the little-known history of women who joined income-sharing communities during the 1840s, this book uses four community case studies to examine social activism within communal environments. In a period when women faced legal and social restrictions ranging from coverture to slavery, the emergence of residential communities designed by French utopian writer, Charles Fourier, introduced spaces where female leadership and social organization became possible. Communitarian women helped shape the ideological underpinnings of some of the United States' most enduring and successful reform efforts, including the women's rights movement, the abolition movement, and the creation of the Republican Party. Dr. Hart argues that these movements were intertwined, with activists influencing multiple organizations within unexpected settings. Dr. Amy Hart holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has served as a lecturer at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and is currently a public historian for California State Parks.
Download or read book Activists Rebels and Reformers A F 2 G M 3 N Z written by Phillis Engelbert and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muslim Women Reformers written by Ida Lichter and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring compilation of stories from around the world, the voices of these long-oppressed women ring loud and clear as they demand the social and political rights women lack in many Muslim countries.
Download or read book Let Something Good be Said written by Frances Elizabeth Willard and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Thought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, "Let Something Good Be Said" is the first volume to collect the messages that inspired a generation of women to activism.
Download or read book Trailblazer Reformers Activists Box Set 4 written by Various and published by CF4Kids. This book was released on 2015-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This giftbox collection of colorful trailblazer stories makes a perfect present that will delight young minds. Features some of the great Christian reformers and activists who will inspire young and old alike. This edition includes William Wilberforce, the man fought to bring freedom and relief from the terrors of the slave trade and John Knox, who went from being a bodyguard to a preacher of God's Word. John Knox went from being a bodyguard to a preacher of God's Word. He stood with his convictions - biblical and political. John Calvin's ideas were radical, his life was filled with dramatic events and dangers. Find out how this great teacher changed the church. William Wilberforce fought to bring freedom and relief from the terrors of the slave trade; it took him forty-five years. John Welch fell in with the wrong crowd - then he met God. Find out how this adventurous preacher couldn't be stopped even by a canon ball. John Newton travelled the oceans to make money from slaves. Find out how God changed his heart and life so that the slave ship captain sought to free slaves instead.
