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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 ...
Debra J. Dickerson (born 1959) is an American author, editor, writer, and contributing writer and blogger for Mother Jones magazine. [1] Dickerson has been most prolific as an essayist, writing on race relations and racial identity in the United States.
David Corn (born February 20, 1959) is an American political journalist and author. He is the Washington, D.C. bureau chief for Mother Jones and is best known as a cable television commentator. [1] Corn worked at The Nation from 1987 to 2007, where he served as Washington editor. [2]
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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 ...
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.
Mary Gardiner Jones (1920–2009), first woman to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission; Mary Harris Jones (1837–1930), known as Mother Jones, community organizer; Mary Jane Richardson Jones (1819–1909), American abolitionist and suffragist; Mary Letitia Jones (1865–1946), librarian and head of Los Angeles Public Library 1900 ...