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Mary G. Harris Jones (1837 (baptized) – November 30, 1930), known as Mother Jones from 1897 onward, was an Irish-born American labor organizer, former schoolteacher, and dressmaker who became a prominent union organizer, community organizer, and activist.
Mother Jones began posting its magazine content on the Internet on November 24, 1993, the first general interest magazine in the country to do so. [29] [30] In the March/April 1996 issue, the magazine published the first Mother Jones 400, a listing of the largest individual donors to federal political campaigns. The print magazine listed the ...
She was a fellow at New America Foundation from 1999 to 2002. After giving up her personal blog in September 2007, Dickerson announced she will become a blogger for Mother Jones magazine. Dickerson has published two books, An American Story, a memoir, and The End of Blackness.
Mother Jones may refer to: Mary Harris Jones (called "Mother Jones", 1837–1930), American labor and community organizer Mother Jones (magazine) , progressive American news magazine
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Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.
The Oneida Institute of Science and Industry (founded 1827) was the first institution of higher education to routinely admit African-American men and provide mixed-race college-level education. [130] Oberlin College (founded 1833) was the first mainly white, degree-granting college to admit African-American students. [ 131 ]
Yet the largest impact he was able to make was in the state of Virginia, refining their laws and policies to be more educationally centered, and ultimately establishing the University of Virginia. Based on the research and ideas of Jay Fliegelman, Lawrence Stone , and Melvin Yazawa, Hellenbrand makes his analysis through a lens of the anti ...