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.". Grey House

n this volume, the focus is on the men and women who initiated or participated in social movements. These people include those willing to participate in a silent Negro protest march against lynching, a physician who violated the law and strictures of his community to offer birth control information, a mother's feverish attempts to ban action comics and a businessman willing to raise money to aid the post-World War Jewish refugees of Poland.