American reformers / edited by H.W. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, H. W., editor.

H.W. Wilson Company, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reformers--United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

Reformers.

United States--Biography--Dictionaries.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies -- Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 958 pages) : portraits

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : H.W. Wilson Company, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Incorporated ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

This book brings together informative biographies of 600 men and women who were the principal architects of reform in America from the seventeenth century to modern times.

Contents:

Grace Abbott

Rodolfo "Rudy" Acu�na

Jane Addams

Felix Adler

Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz

(Amos) Bronson Alcott

William Andrus Alcott

Saul David Alinsky

Richard Allen

John Peter Altgeld

Oscar Ameringer

Jessie David Ames

Elizabeth Preston Anderson

Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews

John Bertram Andrews

Stephen Pearl Andrews

Mathilde Franziska Giesler Annexe

Susan Brownell Anthony

Gloria Evangelina Anzald�ua

Samuel Chapman Armstrong

Edward Atkinson

Rachel G. Foster Avery

Albion Fellows Bacon

Sarah George Bagley

Ray Stannard Baker

Sara Josephine Baker

Emily Greene Balch

James Arthur Baldwin

Roger Nash Baldwin

Adin Ballou

Wharton Barker

Kate Barnard

Gertrude Barnum

Janie Porter Barrett

Samuel June Barrows

Leonora Marie Kearney Barry

Clarissa (Clara) Harlowe Barton

Mary Ritter Beard

Catharine Esther Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher

Isabella Beecher

Lyman Beecher

Edward Bellamy

Dorothy Jacobs Bellanca

Alva Erskine Smith Van-Derbilt Belmont

Victor Louis Berger

Mary Jane Mcleod Bethune

John Bigelow

James Gillespie Birney

James Black

Alice Stone Blackwell

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell

Emily Blackwell

Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

William Dwight Porter Bliss

Amelia Jenks Bloomer

Ella Reeve Ware Cohen Omholt Bloor (Mother Bloor)

Inez Milholland Boissevain

Edward William Bok

Charles Joseph Bonaparte

Mary Lucinda Bonney

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

Maud Elizabeth Charles-Worth Ballington Booth

Henry Ingersoll Bowditch

Charles Loring Brace

Myra Colby Bradwell

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

William J. Bratton

Madeline Mcdowell Breckinridge

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge

Margaret Brent

Cyril Briggs

Lloyd Vernon Briggs

Albert Brisbane

Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun

Antoinette Louisa Brown

John Brown

Martha Mcclellan Brown

Olympia Brown

Orestes Augustus Brownson

William Jennings Bryan

Patrick "Pat" Joseph Buchanan

Frank Burkitt

Elihu Burritt

�Etienne Cabet

Richard Clarke Cabot

Helen Stuart Campbell

Edward Ward Carmack

Stokely Carmichael

Matilda Bradley Carse

Rachel Louise Carson

George Washington Carver

Carrie Clinton Lane Chapman Catt

Elizabeth Buffum Chace

Lucinda Banister Chandler

William Ellery Channing

Maria Weston Chapman

C�esar Estrada Ch�avez

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney

David Lee Child

Lydia Maria Francis Child

Richard Spencer Childs

Victoria Claflin and Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Cassius Marcellus Clay

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Levi Coffin

Stanton Coit

Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby

Ellen Collins

Julia Colman

Katharine Coman

John Rogers Commons

Anthony Comstock

Victor Considerant

Harriet Arnot Maxwell Converse

Jacob Sechler Coxey

Prudence Crandall

Caroline Julia Bartlett Crane

David Goodman Croly

Jane Cunningham ("Jennie June") Croly

Herbert David Croly

Ernest Howard Crosby

Howard Crosby

Patrisse Cullors

Kate Richards O'Hare Cunningham

George William Curtis

Caroline Wells Healey Dall

Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Richard Henry Dana, 3rd

Clarence Seward Darrow

Andrew Jackson Davis

Angela Davis

Katharine Bement Davis

Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis

Dorothy Day

Eugene Victor Debs

Voltairine De Cleyre

Martin Robison Delany

Daniel De Leon

William Jennings Demorest

Mary Coffin Ware Dennett

Vine Victor Deloria, Jr.

John Dewey

Melvil Dewey

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Annie Leporte Diggs

Samuel Warren Dike

Major Divine (Father)

Dorothea Lynde Dix

James C. Dobson

David Low Dodge

Ignatius Donnelly

Thomas Wilson Dorr

Frank Doster

Frederick Douglass

Sarah Mapps Douglass Douglass

Neal Dow

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Abigail Jane Scott Duniway

Crystal Eastman

Max Forrester Eastman

Mary Morse Baker Glover Patterson Eddy

Thomas Eddy

John Lovejoy Elliott

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sarah Elizabeth Van De Vort Emery

Elizabeth Gardiner Glen-Dower Evans

George Henry Evans

Jerry Falwell, Sr.

Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham

Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton

David Dudley Field

Edward Albert Filene

Charles Grandison Finney

John Fitzpatrick

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Abrahm Flexner

Benjamin Orange Flower

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Charles Follen

Martin A. Foran

Patrick Ford

Charlotte Forten

James Forten

Timothy Thomas Fortune

Abby (Abigail) Kelley Foster

William Zebulon Foster

Lydia Folger Fowler

Orson Squire Fowler

Felix Frankfurter

Lynn Joseph Frazier

Betty Friedan

Milton Friedman

(Sarah) Margaret Fuller

Isaac Kauffman Funk

Andrew Furuseth

Frances Dana Barker Gage

Matilda Joslyn Gage

Joseph Gales

Helen Hamilton Gardener

Henry Highland Garnet

William Lloyd Garrison

Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.

Alicia Garza

Ernest Berry Gaston

Henry George

Abigail Hopper Gibbons

Linda Gilbert

Mabel Edna Gillespie

Charlotte Anna Perkins Stetson Gilman

Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Parke Godwin

Emma Goldman

Barry Morris Goldwater

Samuel Gompers

Anna Adams Gordon

Isabella Marshall Graham

Sylvester Graham

Rebecca Gratz

Horace Greeley

Frances Harriet Whipple Green

Isaac Newton Gresham

Josephine Sophia White Griffing

Goldsborough Sappington Griffith

Charlotte Forten Grimk�e

Sarah Moore Grimk�e

Angelina Emily Grimk�e

Laurence Gronlund

Luther Halsey Gulick, Jr.

Jos�e Angel Guti�arrez

Emanuel Haldeman-Julius

Edward Everett Hale

Emma Amelia Hall

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer

Alice Hamilton

Hutchins Hapgood

Norman Hapgood

John Marshall Harlan

Ida A. Husted Harper

Thomas Lake Harris

Hubert Henry Harrison

Hastings Hornell Hart

William Hope Harvey

Lydia Sayer Hasbrouck

Ella Knowles Haskell

John Henry Willis Hawkins

Mary Garrett Hay

Tom Hayden

Arthur Garfield Hays

William Dudley ("Big Bill") Haywood

Thomas Hazard

Hinton Rowan Helper

Alice Henry

Josephine Frey Herbst

Caroline Maria Hewins

Angela Fiducia Tilton Heywood

Ezra Hervey Heywood

Elias Hicks

Thomas Wentworth Storrow Higginson

Joe Hill

Patty Smith Hill

Morris Hillquit

Jessie Donaldson Hodder

Josiah Holbrook

Isabella Beecher Hooker

Harry Lloyd Hopkins

Isaac Tatem Hopper

Eugenio Maria De Hostos

Milford Wriarson Howard

Frederic Clemson Howe

Julia Ward Howe

Samuel Gridley Howe

William Dean Howells

Dolores Huerta

Harriot Kezia Hunt

Grace Hutchins

Anne Marbury Hutchinson

Robert Green Ingersoll

Martin Irons

William Mills Ivins

Gardner (Pat) Jackson

Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson

Jesse Jackson

William Jay

Thomas Jefferson

Ellen Cheney Johnson

Magnus Johnson

Tom Loftin Johnson

Mary Harris Jones ("Mother Jones")

George Washington Julian

Mary Morton Kimball Kehew

Florence Kelley

Oliver Hudson Kelley

Edward Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg

Paul Underwood Kellogg

Florence Finch Kelly

Dan King

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Naomi Klein

Abner Kneeland

Larry Kramer

William Ladd

Robert Marion La Follette

Harry W(ellington) Laidler

William Langer

Julia Clifford Lathrop

Lewis Edward Lawes

Benjamin Lay

Mary Elizabeth Clyens Lease

Joshua Leavitt

Ann Lee

William Frederick Lemke

Benjamin Barr Lindsey

Leonard Leo

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood

George Sperry Loftus

Jack London

Meyer London

Huey Pierce Long

Henry Langford Loucks

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

Josephine Shaw Lowell

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier

Benjamin Lundy

Seth Luther

Mary Lyon

Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez

Alfred Watterson McCann

Charles McCarthy

Samuel Sidney McClure

Frances Harriet Whipple Green McDougall

Mary Eliza McDowell

Edward McGlynn

Stephen McLallin

William Maclure

George Edwin McNeill

Charles William Macune

Malcolm X

Horace Mann

Vito Anthony Marcantonio

Herbert Marcuse

Helen Marot

John Marsh

Sarah Towne Smith Martyn

Emma Jacobina Christina Marwedel

Lewis Masquerier

Peter Aristide Maurin

Samuel Joseph May

DeRay Mckesson

Russell Charles Means

Christian Metz

Harvey Milk

Elizabeth Smith Miller

John Purroy Mitchel

Robert Moses

Johann Joseph Most

Lucretia Coffin Mott

Ellen Spencer Mussey

Abraham Johannes Muste

Ralph Nader

Thomas Nast

Carry Amelia Moore Gloyd Nation

Huey Percy Newton

Clarina Irene Howard Nichols

Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols

George William Norris

John Humphrey Noyes

Thomas Lewis Nugent

Gerald Prentice Nye

Kate Richards O'Hare

Fremont Older

Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson

Leonora O'Reilly

Charles Osborn

Thomas Mott Osborne

Mary Kenney O'Sullivan

Robert Owen

Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

Thomas Paine

Elihu Palmer

Theodore Parker

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Albert Richard Parsons

Elsie Worthington Clews Parson

Alice Paul

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

William Penn

Frances Perkins

Wendell Phillips

Parker Pillsbury

Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

Hazen Stuart Pingree

Leonidas Lafayette Polk

Louis Freeland Post

Terence Vincent Powderly

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Joseph Priestley

Josiah Quincy

Amelia Stone Quinton

Jorge Gilberto Ramos �Avalos

Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut

Asa Philip Randolph

Jeannette Pickering Rankin

Robert Rantoul, Jr.

Walter Rauschenbusch

James Redpath

John Silas Reed

Agnes Gertrude Regan

Sarah Parker Remond

Milo Reno

Jacob August Riis

George Ripley

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley

Sylvia Rivera

Margaret Dreier Robins

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Ernestine Louise Siismondi Potowski Rose

William Marshall Fitts Round

Edward Ross Roybal

Benjamin Rush

Charles Edward Russell

Howard Hyde Russell

John Augustine Ryan

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Elizabeth Elkins Sanders

Margaret Louise Higgins Sanger

Mario Savio

Solomon Schindler

Phyllis McAlpin Schlafly

Rose Schneiderman

Hannah Kent Schoff

Carl Schurz

Rosika Schwimmer

Vida Scudder

Caroline Maria Seymour Severance

Al Sharpton

Anna Howard Shaw

Daniel Shays

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch

Jeremiah (Jerry) Simpson

Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

Thomas Skidmore

Abby Hadassah Smith

Julia Evelina Smith

Gerrit Smith

Hannah Whitall Smith

Joel Elias Spingarn

Lysander Spooner

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Joseph Lincoln Steffens

Gloria Steinem

Uriah Smith Stephens

Alzina Ann Parsons Stevens

Lillian Marion Norton Ames Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens

Ira Steward

Alvan Stewart

Eliza Daniel Coover Stewart

Gustav Stickley

William Still

Cora Frances Stoddard

Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes

Rose Harriet Pastor Stokes

Lucy Stone

Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe

Charles Sumner

Eliza Jane Read Sunderland

John Swinton

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm

William H. Sylvis

Arthur Tappan

Lewis Tappan

Ida Minerva Tarbell

John Lloyd Thomas

Martha Carey Thomas

Norman Mattoon Thomas

Henry David Thoreau

Thomas Henry Tibbles

Marion Marsh Todd

William Howe Tolman

Opal Tometi

Albion Winegar Tourg�ee

Arthur Charles Townley

Francis Everett Townsend

Augusta Lewis Troup

Benjamin Franklin Trueblood

Sojourner (Isabella Van Wagener) Truth

Harriet Tubman

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

Harriet Taylor Upton

William Simon U'ren

Marie Louise Van Vorst

Jose Antonio Vargas

Thorstein Bunde Veblen

William C. Vel�asquez

Fanny Garrison Villard

Oswald Garrison Villard

Henry Vincent

Mary Marvin Heaton Vorse

Lillian D. Wald

Mary Edwards Walker

Zerelda Gray Sanders Wallace

William English Walling

Lester Frank Ward

Earl Warren

Josiah Warren

Booker T. (Aliaferro) Washington

Thomas Edward Watson

Julius Augustus Wayland

Noah Webster

Theodore Dwight Weld

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett

Wayne Bidwell Wheeler

Henry Benjamin Whipple

Alfred Tredway White

Ellen Gould Harmon White

Walt Whitman

John Greenleaf Whittier

Harvey Washington Wiley

Roy Wilkins

Jemima Wilkinson

Emma Hart Willard

Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard

Aubrey Willis Williams

Elizabeth Sprague Williams

Roger Williams

Henry Gaylord Wilshire

Isaac Mayer Wise

Edith Elmer Wood

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Tennessee Celeste Claflin

John Granville Woolley

John Woolman

Abby Howland & J.S. & Georgeanne Woolsey

Jane Stuart Woolsey

Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon

Noah Worcester

Elizur Wright

Frances Wright

Henry Clarke Wright

Whitney Moore Young, Jr.

Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska

John Peter Zenger.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"First edition edited by Alden Whitman."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781682171974

1682171973

OCLC:

1031453207