Title: The 100 greatest Americans of the 20th century
Description: A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for women's suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted because the radical ideas of one generation are often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers who challenged the status quo of their day.
Subjects: Social justice, Social change, Biography, Social conditions, History, Political activists, Social reformers, United states, social conditions, United states, history, 20th century
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century