Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Progressive Reformers Resources

Jane Addams:
http://search.eb.com/women/article-9003693
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_addams.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web10/features/bio/B06.html

W. E. B. Du Bois:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_dubois.html
http://www.biography.com/people/web-du-bois-9279924
http://library.thinkquest.org/2667/DuBois.htm
http://pbskids.org/bigapplehistory/business/topic16.html

Mother Jones:
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/jones/MotherJones.html
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/jones.cfm
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web10/features/bio/B05.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/historyofus/web10/segment2_p.html

Ida B. Wells:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_wells.html
http://people.duke.edu/~ldbaker/classes/AAIH/caaih/ibwells/ibwbkgrd.html
http://www2.webster.edu/~woolflm/idabwells.html
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/idabwells/biography.html
A link to Ida Wells' book: http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/navigate.pl?lincoln.5813

John Muir:
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/people/historical/muir/
http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/muir_biography.aspx
http://ecotopia.org/ecology-hall-of-fame/john-muir/biography/
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Muir-John.html#b
This chronology shows what Muir had already done by 1903, and what he worked to accomplish after that: http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/life/chronology.aspx

Alice Paul:
http://pbskids.org/wayback/civilrights/features_suffrage.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/paul-ali.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USApaul.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_paul.html
This new link includes descriptions of many other causes that Progressive women fought for: http://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/progressiveera/introwomenprogressive.html

Upton Sinclair:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jupton.htm
http://www.biography.com/people/upton-sinclair-9484897
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/sinclair.htm
http://www.gradesaver.com/author/upton-sinclair/