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Sep 27, 2017 · About the project. Mapping American Social Movements is directed by Professor James N. Gregory and supported by a Digital Humanities grant from the Walter J. Simpson Center for the Humanities, a Washington State Labor Research grant from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the History Department Hanauer Fund, all at the University of Washington.
Oct 13, 2022 · Women were in the vanguard of social justice reform. Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, and Ellen Gates Starr, for example, led the settlement house movement of the 1880s (discussed in a previous chapter). Their work to provide social services, education, and health care to working-class women and their children was among the earliest Progressive ...
Oct 13, 2022 · 13.1: Introduction to the Progressive Movement; 13.2: The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America; 13.3: Video- The Progressive Era; 13.4: Progressivism at the Grassroots Level; 13.5: New Voices for Women and African Americans; 13.6: Video- Women’s Suffrage; 13.7: Progressivism in the White House; 13.8: Video- Progressive Presidents
The Progressive drive for a more perfect democracy and social justice also fostered the growth of two new movements that attacked the oldest and most long-standing betrayals of the American promise of equal opportunity and citizenship—the disfranchisement of women and civil rights for African Americans.
In 1890, the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) organized several hundred state and local chapters to urge the passage of a federal amendment to guarantee a woman’s right to vote. Its leaders, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, were veterans of the women’s suffrage movement and had formulated the first demand ...
Oct 29, 2009 · Getty Images. The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right ...
Women were in the vanguard of social justice reform. Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, and Ellen Gates Starr, for example, led the settlement house movement of the 1880s (discussed in a previous chapter). Their work to provide social services, education, and health care to working-class women and their children was among the earliest Progressive ...
