PELHAM HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER

The mission of Pelham High School is to educate students so that they may pursue life goals, 
participate fully as active citizens, and become socially responsible community members.

Social Activism

Dean Gioseffi

Books are pulled on the tables next to the computers.

Reformers

Addams, Jane

    University of Illinois- Biography of Jane Addams

    Hull House Museum- timeline and bio of Jane Addams

    Women in History- Jane Addams

    Hull House.org

Steffens, Lincoln

    History Matters

    The Shame of the Cities

    Tweed Days

    New York Times Editorial

    Steffens on Urban Blight

Upton Sinclair

    Books and Writers

    1934 EPIC Plan

    The Jungle

   Biography

    1906:  Rumble over the Jungle

    Social History.org

    End Poverty in California

W. Rauschenbush

    Excerpt from Prayers of the Social Awakening

    Christianity and the Social Crisis   

      Short Biography- for more information, see the Dictionary of American Biography on the table.

Ida M. Tarbell

Florence Kelley

Robert LaFollette

President Woodrow Wilson

John Dewey

Eugene Debs

Carrie Chapman Catt

Susan Anthony

Gifford Pinchot

Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives

Carry Nation

Clara Dorothy Bewick Colby

Frances Dana Gage

Dorothea Dix

Prudence Crandall

Women in the Abolitionist Movement

Margaret Sanger

Peace Activists from Peace Mission.org:

Elizabeth Strauss, Media Generalist
Pelham High School Library Media Center
bstrauss@pelhamsd.org