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Author Dreier, Peter, 1948-

Title The 100 greatest Americans of the 20th century : a social justice hall of fame / Peter Dreier.

Publication Info. New York : Nation Books, [2012]
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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Pearl Street Branch Library - Young Adult  YA 920 DRE    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Reference Material  REF 920.073 DREIER    In-Library Use Only
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Reference Material  REF. 361.24 D771O    In-Library Use Only
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  920.073 DR    Check Shelf
Description xii, 500 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Tom Johnson (1854-1911) -- Robert M. La Follette Sr. (1855-1925) -- Eugene Debs (1855-1926) -- Louis Brandeis (1856-1941) -- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) -- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) -- Florence Kelley (1859-1932) -- John Dewey (1859-1952) -- Victor Berger (1860-1929) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) -- Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) -- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- William "Big Bill" Haywood (1869-1928) -- Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) -- Emma Goldman (1869-19400 -- Lewis Hine (1874-1940) -- Robert F. Wagner Sr. (1877-1953) -- Upton Sinclair (1878-1968) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) -- John. L. Lewis (1880-1969) -- Helen Keller (1880-1968) -- Frances Perkins (1880-1965) -- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) -- Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) -- Fiorello La Guardia (1882-1947) -- Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) -- Norman Thomas (1884-1968) -- A.J. Muste (1885-1967) -- Alice Stokes Paul (1885-1977) -- Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) -- Henry Wallace (1888-1965) -- A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) -- Earl Warren (1891-1974) -- Floyd Olson (1891-1936) -- Dorothy Day (1897-1980) -- Paul Robeson (1898-1976) -- William O. Douglas (1898-1980) -- Harry Bridges (1901-1990) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954) -- Virginia F. Durr (1903-1999) -- Ella Baker (1903-1986) -- Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991) -- Myles Horton (1905-1990) -- Carey McWilliams (1905-1980) -- William J. Brennan Jr. (1906-1997) -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Walter Reuther (1907-1970) -- L E Stone (1907-1989) -- Thurgood Marshall (1908- 1993) -- Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) -- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) -- Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) -- Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) -- Harry Hay (1912-2002) -- Studs Terkel (1912-2008) -- David Brower (1912-2000) -- Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) -- Arthur Miller (1915-2005) -- Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) -- C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) -- Barry Commoner (1917-) -- Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) -- Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) -- Pete Seeger (1919-) -- Jerry Wurf (1919-1981) -- Bella Abzug (1920-1998) -- Betty Friedan (1921-2006) -- Howard Zinn (1922-2010) -- Rev. William Sloane Coffin (1924-2006) -- Malcolm X (1925-1965) -- Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) -- Michael Harrington (1928-1989) -- Rev. James Lawson (1928-) -- Noam Chomsky (1928-) -- Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) -- Allard Lowenstein (1929-1980) -- Harvey Milk (1930-1978) -- Ted Kennedy (1932-2009) -- Ralph Nader (1934-) -- Gloria Steinem (1934-) -- Bill Moyers (1934-) -- Bob Moses (1935-) -- Tom Hayden (1939-) -- John Lewis (1940-) -- Joan Baez (1941-) -- Bob Dylan (1941-) -- Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) -- Jesse Jackson (1941-) -- Muhammad Ali (1942-) -- Billie Jean King (1943-) -- Paul Wellstone (1944-2002) -- Bruce Springsteen (1949-) -- Michael Moore (1954-) -- Tony Kushner (1956-)
Subject Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Social justice -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Biography.
Added Title One hundred greatest Americans of the twentieth century
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