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Revolution's End by Brad Schreiber
epub |eng | 2015-12-31 | Author:Brad Schreiber

8 PEOPLE IN NEED THE MOST FAMOUS KIDNAPPING IN the history of the United States occurred during an extraordinarily chaotic time. Before 1973 ended, President Richard Nixon offered as evidence ...
( Category: Radicalism March 10,2020 )
Eighty Years and More by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
epub |eng | 2020-02-24 | Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

CHAPTER XVI. PIONEER LIFE IN KANSAS—OUR NEWSPAPER, “THE REVOLUTION.” IN 1867 the proposition to extend the suffrage to women and to colored men was submitted to the people of the ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 10,2020 )
Somebody's Gotta Do It by Adrienne Martini
epub |eng | | Author:Adrienne Martini

* * * On the late October day of the debate, I showed up to the campus banquet room in a burnt-orange skirt, a grown-up striped blouse, and black leather ...
( Category: Local March 9,2020 )
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

12 I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier From what seemed a safe distance, Americans intently followed the war’s opening moves. New York crowds flocked to Times Square ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders by Linda Sarsour
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Linda Sarsour

* * * The real struggle began when we lobbied the New York City Department of Education to formally recognize Islam’s two holiest days by closing school on those days, ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 8,2020 )
To the Barricades by Alix Kates Shulman
epub |eng | | Author:Alix Kates Shulman

12 A Home for Lost Dogs Emma Goldman does not merely preach the new philosophy; she also persists in living it,—and that is the one supreme, unforgivable crime. —HIPPOLYTE HAVEL ...
( Category: Political March 8,2020 )
A Lot With A Little by Tim Costello
epub |eng | 2019-06-12 | Author:Tim Costello

At this time, I had John Howard Yoder – the Mennonite theologian I had written my treatise on at Rüschlikon – come and preach at our church while he was ...
( Category: Social Activists March 6,2020 )
What Are We For? by Eleanor Roosevelt
epub |eng | 2019-09-18 | Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

EDUCATION We need to change our attitude in this country toward learning and knowledge, its value, and the respect due to those who take the trouble to learn. (My Day, ...
( Category: Feminist Theory March 6,2020 )
Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco
epub |eng | 2017-03-21 | Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco

CHAPTER 5 Some Personal Shit You Should Probably Know Sometime in early August of that year, Plouffe was in my office and we were shooting the shit. Since I am ...
( Category: Leadership March 6,2020 )
The Women's Suffrage Movement by Sally Roesch Wagner & Sally Roesch Wagner & Gloria Steinem
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Sally Roesch Wagner & Sally Roesch Wagner & Gloria Steinem

The sponge and “pessaries” (forms of diaphragms and cervical caps) were available, as well as the “baudruche” (condom), which functioned also “to secure from syphilitic affections.”24 Newspapers secured a whopping ...
( Category: Elections March 6,2020 )
So Here's the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco
epub |eng | 2019-03-04 | Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco

I think I’ve established how dysfunctional the Kerry campaign was, here and elsewhere. Well, it’s possible I was a gossip angel during that time period because I knew how it ...
( Category: Political March 5,2020 )
Anger Is My Middle Name by Andersen Lisbeth Zornig
epub |eng | 2020-02-29 | Author:Andersen, Lisbeth Zornig

1982–83 Once again I find myself sitting in the orphanage bus. Saying goodbye to Niels was tough. I cried bitterly when I kissed him goodbye the day before, and he ...
( Category: Social Activists March 3,2020 )
Love and Capital. Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
epub |eng | 2011-09-13 | Author:Mary Gabriel [Gabriel, Mary]

Marx appeared to be in the mood for full disclosure, because in the same letter he told Engels the true status of Capital. “There are three more chapters to be ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 3,2020 )
Witness to an Extreme Century by Robert Jay Lifton
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Jay Lifton

Deeper Intellectual Divides I had conflicts with other intellectuals who were antagonistic to many of the currents of the sixties. In that regard I had a revealing encounter with Irving ...
( Category: Psychiatry March 2,2020 )
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Patricia Bell-Scott [Bell-Scott, Patricia]

PART VII FIGHTING FOR A JUST WORLD, 1956–59 Pauli Murray (right) confers with an unidentified supporter at an Adlai Stevenson campaign event, New York City, 1956. “Civil rights cannot be ...
( Category: Women in History March 2,2020 )

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