Working Americans, 1880-2006.
By: by Scott Derks.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grey House Pub.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Millerton, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9781592371013
Subjects: Social movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Protest movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century; United States -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
Other titles: Social movements; Working Americans, 1880-2006.
Description: Focuses on American men and women, from all walks of life, who initiated or participated in social movements, standing up for something they believed in-for themselves, their families, the human race.
Notes: "A universal reference book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1880-1899: Child welfare; Women's health; "The child's dearest playmate;" Child labor; title: 1900-1909: Anti smoking campaign; Public health/food additives; Animal conservation; "The automobile in America"; title: 1910-1919: Suffrage; Civil rights; "A strike and its remedies, the conditions rebelled against;" Public health/flu epidemic; title: 1920-1929: Reproductive rights; Immigrant reform; Censorship; "Beware big city's glamouring lure"; title: 1930-1939: Civil rights; Property rights; Prohibition; "Talk about trouble: a new deal portrait of American in the Depression"; title: 1940-1949: Civil rights: internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans; Civil rights: desegregating the military; title: Refugee rights; "Hold fast! Ye Southern textile workers"; title: 1950-1959; title: Censorship; Environmental movement; "Desegregation will fail;" Worker rights; title: 1960-1969: Civil rights; Censorship; "Woman as child...notes from the first year;" American Indian activism; title: 1970-1979: Environmental movement; Peace movement; "Interfaith reporter;" Refugee rights; title: 1980-1989: Nuclear-freeze movement; "Charity begins with the homeless;" Animal conservation; Reproductive rights; title: 1990-2006: Rights of the handicapped; Worker rights; Prayer in public schools; Women's rights; "Granny power takes on the Iraq War."