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unusual facts about Progressive era



Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin

Lampkinā€™s effective skills as an orator, fundraiser, organizer, and political activist guided the work being conducted by the National Association of Colored Women (NACW); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); National Council of Negro Women and other leading civil rights organizations of the Progressive Era.

Martha Van Rensselaer

In 1930, she played a leadership role in the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, which set a critical Progressive Era agenda for youth health, social policy, and education.

Mike Dash

Dash authored a series of books covering incidents in the history of the Dutch East India Company, the Netherlands, India under British rule, and New York during the Progressive Era.

Morris Lyon Buchwalter

Politically, Buchwalter identified with the Republican Party, being a bridge figure between the abolition movement and the Progressive era.

Pardee Dam

Both the dam and its reservoir are named for George Pardee, a prominent Progressive Era politician in the Bay Area who also served as Governor of California.


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Helen Herz Cohen

Camp Walden was founded in 1916, shortly after the first Girl Scout camp and Camp Fire Girls camps began, at the very end of the Progressive Era in the United States.