Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: Reform (Social or Labor)

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Michigan labor activist who rallied workers and fought against capitalists so that laborers could sit at the bargaining table

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At the age of 15, she tried to integrate the bus system and break down segregation

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Labor activist whose work creating the United Farm Workers Union gave a disenfranchised group of laborers a voice in work relations

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Fought for voting rights for African Americans and led change through the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and her Congressional testimony

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Female editor and inspiration for the anti-lynching campaign of the NAACP

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Progressive-era reformer who sought to change society through education, labor legislation, and social work

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Young woman who works to educate girls in Pakistan

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Nurse who risked her freedom to open birth control clinics and laid the path for reproductive rights

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Renowned labor activist who worked to improve working conditions for men and women

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Immigrant sweatshop worker who wrote about the abuses suffered by workers during the Industrial Revolution
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