Leaders Of The Progressive Movement
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Women such as Jeanette Rankin, Jane Addams, and Emma Goldman were often because they had nothing to lose and everything to gain. The 14th and 15th Amendments had denied them basic rights, such as voting, that blacks - whom many suffragettes considered to be inferior - had gained. So-called prog ....
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.... Jane Addams also worked for social reforms, using her position in society to form Hull House, a settlement house for the social and economic betterment of the poor. She wrote many books about worthy causes such as peace, and endured harsh criticism of her work. Perhaps the most radical of the three, Emma Goldman, took her work for women's rights one step further. Although she was skeptical about suffrage, Goldman worked for contraceptive information to be given to the "New Woman". She fo ....
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