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The Progressive Movement

 
 

 

Reform Programs
Theodore Roosevelt: New Nationalism (1908)
Woodrow Wilson: New Freedom (1912)

Conditions of the Working Class
Jane Addams: What Lured Women to Settlement Houses (c. 1910)
Jacob Riis: Racial Groups Among the New York Tenements (1890)
George E. Waring: an Engineer on Modern Sewage Disposal (1891)
Pauline Newman and The New York World: "The Triangle Fire" (1911)

The Plight of the Immigrant
Antanas Kaztauskis: Story of a Lithuanian
Sadie Frowne: Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl
Rocco Corrersca ("Joe"): Story of an Italian Bootblack
Story of a Japanese Servant
Frank Roney: An Irish Laborer Confronts Hardship in San Francisco (1875-1876)
Ballad of the Landlord

Songs and Poems
Joe Hill: Pie in the Sky
Woody Guthrie: Waiting at the Gate
Woody Guthrie: The Dying Miner
Woody Guthrie: Ludlow Massacre
Lucia Trent: Breed, Women Breed
Anonymous: The Weavers Song