"A universal reference book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
1880-1899: Child welfare; Women's health; "The child's dearest playmate;" Child labor -- 1900-1909: Anti smoking campaign; Public health/food additives; Animal conservation; "The automobile in America" -- 1910-1919: Suffrage; Civil rights; "A strike and its remedies, the conditions rebelled against;" Public health/flu epidemic -- 1920-1929: Reproductive rights; Immigrant reform; Censorship; "Beware big city's glamouring lure" -- 1930-1939: Civil rights; Property rights; Prohibition; "Talk about trouble: a new deal portrait of American in the Depression" -- 1940-1949: Civil rights: internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans; Civil rights: desegregating the military -- Refugee rights; "Hold fast! Ye Southern textile workers" -- 1950-1959 -- Censorship; Environmental movement; "Desegregation will fail;" Worker rights -- 1960-1969: Civil rights; Censorship; "Woman as child...notes from the first year;" American Indian activism -- 1970-1979: Environmental movement; Peace movement; "Interfaith reporter;" Refugee rights -- 1980-1989: Nuclear-freeze movement; "Charity begins with the homeless;" Animal conservation; Reproductive rights -- 1990-2006: Rights of the handicapped; Worker rights; Prayer in public schools; Women's rights; "Granny power takes on the Iraq War."
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