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American reform and reformers, a biographical dictionary, edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala

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American reform and reformers, a biographical dictionary, edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

American reform and reformers

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dictionariesbibliography

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32392054

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edited by Randall M. Miller and Paul A. Cimbala

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a biographical dictionary

Table Of Contents

Jane Addams and the settlement house movement -- Jessie Daniel Ames and the White Women's Anti-Lynching Campaign -- Roger Baldwin and the American Civil Liberties Union -- Catharine Beecher and domestic relations -- Charles Loring Brace and Children's Uplift -- Earl Browder and American communism -- César Chávez and migrant workers -- Barry Commoner and environmentalism -- Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement -- Eugene Victor Debs and radical labor reform -- John Dewey and pragmatic education -- Dorothea Dix and mental health reform -- W.E.B. Du Bois, the NAACP, and the struggle for racial equality -- Mary Baker Eddy and theological reform -- Charles G. Finney and the evangelical reform impulse -- Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women -- William Lloyd Garrison and abolitionism -- Henry George and utopia -- Washington Gladden and the social gospel -- Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor -- Sylvester Graham and health reform -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the modern civil rights movement -- Rachel MacNair and feminists for life -- Horace Mann and common school reform -- Russell means and Native-American rights -- Harvey Milk and Gay rights -- A.J. Muste and pacifism -- Ralph Nader and consumer politics -- Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement -- Carl Schurz and radical reconstruction -- Joseph Smith, Mormonism, and religious communitarianism -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the women's rights movement -- Norman M. Thomas and American socialism -- Booker T. Washington and Black self-help -- Tom Watson and populism -- Ida Wells-Barnett and the African-American Anti-Lynching Campaign -- Harvey Washington Wiley and pure food reform -- Frances Willard and temperance -- Reform chronology

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