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Reverend Addie Wyatt

Author : Marcia Walker-McWilliams
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209896X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Reverend Addie Wyatt written by Marcia Walker-McWilliams and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.

Bloomer Girls

Author : Debra A Shattuck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025209879X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Bloomer Girls written by Debra A Shattuck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.

The Disability Rights Movement

Author : Doris Fleischer
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439904213
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Disability Rights Movement written by Doris Fleischer and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The struggle for disability rights in the U.S.

Class Action

Author : Clara Bingham
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385496133
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)

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Download or read book Class Action written by Clara Bingham and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Lois Jenson, a petite single mother, who was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and physical assaults. Terrified of losing their jobs, the women kept their problems largely to themselves—until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to file a complaint against the company in 1984. Despite all of the obstacles the legal system threw at them, Lois and her fellow plaintiffs enlisted the aid of a dedicated team of lawyers and ultimately prevailed. Weaving personal stories with legal drama, Class Action shows how these terrifically brave women made history, although not without enormous personal cost. Told at a thriller’s pace, this is the story of how one woman pioneered and won the first sexual harassment class action suit in the United States, a legal milestone that immeasurably improved working conditions for American women.

Exploring the Dangerous Trades

Author : Alice Hamilton
Publisher : Miller Press
ISBN 13 : 1443721212
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Dangerous Trades written by Alice Hamilton and published by Miller Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPLORIMKimE DANGEROUS TRADES c y n y ALICE HAMILTON, M. D. Illustrations by Norah Hamilton AN ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOOK UTTLK, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON To My Three Sisters And My Brother The author is indebted to the Atlantic, Harpers, the American Mercury, and Survey Graphic for per mission to use certain material which appeared originally in the pages of those magazines. e, ontents I Introduction 3 II The Old House 18 III I Chose Medicine 38 IV Hull-House Within 57 V Hull-House Without 76 VI Lawyers and Doctors 95 VII The Illinois Survey 114 VIII The Federal Survey 127 IX Smelting, Enameling, and Painting 138 X Europe in 1915 161 XI War Industries 183 XII Dead Fingers 200 XIII Arizona Copper 208 XIV Europe in 1919 223 XV Boston 252 XVI Social Trends 290 XVII The League of Nations 299 XVIII Russia in 1924 318 XIX The Lawrence Strike 353 XX Germany, 1933 360 Contents XXI Viscose Rayon 387 XXII Germany in 1938 395 XXIII Hadlyme 405 Index 429 Alice Hamilton Frontispiece Old Hamilton Homestead in Fort Wayne 22 Jane Addanis 64 Working Women at a Union Meeting 82 Lead Smelter in Utah 122 Concentrating Mill and Heaps of Tailings in Tri-State Region 146 Canaries in a Picric-Acid Plant 186 Steel Mill on the River 258

Waiting for Lefty

Author : Clifford Odets
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822212157
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Lefty written by Clifford Odets and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The action of the play is comprised of a series of varied, imaginatively conceived episodes, which blend into a powerful and stirring mosaic. The opening scene is a hiring hall where a union leader (obviously in the pay of the bosses) is trying to convince a committee of workers (who are waiting for their leader, Lefty, to arrive) not to strike. This is followed by a moving confrontation between a discouraged taxi driver, who cannot earn enough to live on, and his angry wife, who wants him to show some backbone and stand up to his employer; a revealing scene between a scheming boss and the young worker who refuses to spy on his fellow employees; a sad/funny episode centering on a young cabbie and his would-be bride, who lack the wherewithal to get married; a disturbing scene involving a senior doctor and the underpaid young intern (a labor activist) whom the doctor has been ordered to discharge; and, finally, a return to the union hall where the workers, learning that Lefty has been gunned down by the powers-that-be, resolve at last to stand up for their rights and to strike-and to stay off their jobs until their grievances are finally heard and acted upon by those who have so cynically exploited and misused them.

Black Freedom Fighters in Steel

Author : Ruth Needleman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488580
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Black Freedom Fighters in Steel written by Ruth Needleman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life without Klansmen, chain gangs, and cotton. Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism by Ruth Needleman adds a new dimension to the literature on race and labor. It tells the story of five men born in the South who migrated north for a chance to work the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in the steel mills. Individually they fought for equality and justice; collectively they helped construct economic and union democracy in postwar America. George Kimbley, the oldest, grew up in Kentucky across the street from the family who had owned his parents. He fought with a French regiment in World War I and then settled in Gary, Indiana, in 1920 to work in steel. He joined the Steelworkers Organizing Committee and became the first African American member of its full-time staff in 1938. The youngest, Jonathan Comer, picked cotton on his father's land in Alabama, stood up to racism in the military during World War II, and became the first African American to be president of a basic steel local union. This is a book about the integration of unions, as well as about five remarkable individuals. It focuses on the decisive role of African American leaders in building interracial unionism. One chapter deals with the African American struggle for representation, highlighting the importance of independent black organization within the union. Needleman also presents a conversation among two pioneering steelworkers and current African American union leaders about the racial politics of union activism.

I Came a Stranger

Author : Hilda Polacheck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252062186
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book I Came a Stranger written by Hilda Polacheck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1991-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck (1882-1967) never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, the markets, and the scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. Here, in charming and colorful prose, she recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community, her friendship with Jane Addams, her marriage, her support of civil rights, woman suffrage, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and her experiences as a writer for the WPA.

Politics of the Pantry

Author : Emily E. LB. Twarog
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019068559X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Politics of the Pantry written by Emily E. LB. Twarog and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Politics of the Pantry' examines the rise and fall of the American housewife as a political constituency group and explores the relationship between the domestic sphere and the formation of political identity

To Kill a Mockingbird

Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062368680
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.

Fight Like Hell

Author : Kim Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982171065
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Fight Like Hell written by Kim Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue -- The trailblazers -- The garment workers -- The mill workers -- The revolutionaries -- The miners -- The harvesters -- The cleaners -- The freedom fighters -- The movers -- The metalworkers -- The disabled workers -- The sex workers -- The prisoners -- Epilogue.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics

Author : Donna Brazile
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250137721
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics written by Donna Brazile and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics. It’s a wonderful, necessary book.” – Hillary Clinton The four most powerful African American women in politics share the story of their friendship and how it has changed politics in America. The lives of black women in American politics are remarkably absent from the shelves of bookstores and libraries. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics is a sweeping view of American history from the vantage points of four women who have lived and worked behind the scenes in politics for over thirty years—Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry, and Minyon Moore—a group of women who call themselves The Colored Girls. Like many people who have spent their careers in public service, they view their lives in four-year waves where presidential campaigns and elections have been common threads. For most of the Colored Girls, their story starts with Jesse Jackson’s first campaign for president. From there, they went on to work on the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Over the years, they’ve filled many roles: in the corporate world, on campaigns, in unions, in churches, in their own businesses and in the White House. Through all of this, they’ve worked with those who have shaped our country’s history—US Presidents such as Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, well-known political figures such as Terry McAuliffe and Howard Dean, and legendary activists and historical figures such as Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King, and Betty Shabazz. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics is filled with personal stories that bring to life heroic figures we all know and introduce us to some of those who’ve worked behind the scenes but are still hidden. Whatever their perch, the Colored Girls are always focused on the larger goal of “hurrying history” so that every American — regardless of race, gender or religious background — can have a seat at the table. This is their story.

Women Building Chicago 1790-1990

Author : Rima Lunin Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Women Building Chicago 1790-1990 written by Rima Lunin Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A path breaking reference work that features biographies of more than 400 women who helped build modern day Chicago. 158 photos.

Free at Last

Author : Friedman Michael Jay
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book Free at Last written by Friedman Michael Jay and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive textbook on Civil Rights in America, documenting the US civil rights movement from the introduction of slavery through to the enforcement of the Civil Rights Act and eradication of all discriminatory practices. This textbook was created by the US Bureau of International Information Programs .Executive Editor: George Clack Editor-in-Chief: Mildred Solá Neely Managing Editor: Michael Jay Friedman Art Director: Min-Chih Yao Photo Research: Maggie Johnson Sliker .Department of State / (Anglais)

Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers' Strike

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 0761361324
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Annie Shapiro and the Clothing Workers' Strike written by Marlene Targ Brill and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts Annie Shapiro's experiences during the 1910-1911 Garment Workers' Strike in Chicago.

Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975

Author : Barbara J. Love
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097475
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 written by Barbara J. Love and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documenting key feminists who ignited the second wave women's movement Barbara J. Love’s Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 will be the first comprehensive directory to document many of the founders and leaders (including both well-known and grassroots organizers) of the second wave women's movement. It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies. Nancy Cott's foreword discusses the movement in relation to the earlier first wave and presents a brief overview of the second wave in the context of other contemporaneous social movements.

Building the Black Metropolis

Author : Robert Weems Jr.
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050029
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Building the Black Metropolis written by Robert Weems Jr. and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Jean Baptiste Point DuSable to Oprah Winfrey, black entrepreneurship has helped define Chicago. Robert E. Weems Jr. and Jason P. Chambers curate a collection of essays that place the city as the center of the black business world in the United States. Ranging from titans like Anthony Overton and Jesse Binga to McDonald's operators to black organized crime, the scholars shed light on the long overlooked history of African American work and entrepreneurship since the Great Migration. Together they examine how factors like the influx of southern migrants and the city's unique segregation patterns made Chicago a prolific incubator of productive business development ”and made building a black metropolis as much a necessity as an opportunity. Contributors: Jason P. Chambers, Marcia Chatelain, Will Cooley, Robert Howard, Christopher Robert Reed, Myiti Sengstacke Rice, Clovis E. Semmes, Juliet E. K. Walker, and Robert E. Weems Jr.