117 results for 'founding fathers'
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Rebel Girl: The Story of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn(Post)
Born on this day in 1890, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn devoted her life to the radical struggle “History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgement on tyrants and vindicates ...
Defying Convention: The Radicalism of W.E.B. Du Bois(Post)Born today in 1868, W.E.B. Du Bois remains an icon of black and radical history in the US...On 28th August 1963, about 250,000 Americans took part in Dr King’s March on Washington.It was one of the g ...
The Messenger: Samuel Worcester and the Fight for Cherokee Land(Post)Born today in 1798 Samuel Worcester defended the sovereignty of the Cherokee and founded the first Native American newspaper. Samuel Worcester (Picture credit: Cculber007/Wikimedia Common ...
Standing Up Against The War Machine: The Story of Kate Richards O'Hare(Post)Kate Richards O'Hare was part of 'The Trinity' of well-known female activists imprisoned for opposing World War I. Their struggle led to reforms in the US prison system and helped spur the creation o ...
Brave Woman: The Radicalism of Ida B. Wells (Post)Today marks the birthday of Ida B. Wells, one of the greatest radicals in the history of the United States. There’s plenty Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) would have found confusing about 2020. She w ...
The Irony Of Fighting Nazis With A Segregated Military(Post)In 1941, with the United States at war against Hitler in Europe, the African American civil rights activist A. Philip Randolph took the government to task for ignoring racism at home while fighting a ...
Changing the Face of the Workers' Movement: The Haymarket Affair(Post)I've said it before and I'll say it again: there's something in the water in Chicago. For about 150 years, the city's been a non-stop carnival of American radical politics. Previously ...
Victoria Woodhull: The First Woman to Run for President(Post)Way before Hillary Rodham Clinton, there was Victoria Woodhull... What links free love, Wall Street, and the Communist Manifesto? Or should I say: who? Victoria Woodhull, the fi ...
Why Our Family Started Selling Tea Towels(Post)My mother, Pat, was a radical. A liberal, a feminist, a socialist. A fiercely loyal mother and grandmother. You'd always hear her sticking up for the downtrodden, whoever and wherever ...
Before Bernie Sanders, There was Eugene Debs(Post)Born today in 1855, Eugene Debs belongs to a proud history of American socialism which is only now being rediscovered. Last month, Matt (Radical Tea Towel’s strategist-in-chief) was travelling thro ...
The Radical Politics of Mark Twain(Post)There is more to Mark Twain than Huckleberry Finn… "Who are the oppressors? The few. Who are the oppressed? The many." Countless American writers have had a radical side in politics, from ...
Che Guevara: The Man Behind the Motorcycle Diaries(Post)91 years after his birth, Che Guevara’s motorbike journey across Latin America as a young medical student remains a huge moment in the history of anti-colonial resistance. It would lead Guevara to ...
What Freedom Really Looked Like: Women's Suffrage in America(Post)Native Americans were key allies in the struggle for women's suffrage in the United States On the 18th of August, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect when ...
Rescue in Ohio(Post)The dramatic Oberlin-Wellington Rescue of 1858 punctured a hole in the Fugitive Slave Law (photo: the rescuers in jail) John Brown didn’t ride alone. When he led his raid on Harper ...
Helping Where We Can: We've Just Given Away 10,000 Meals(Post)Last week we donated $1,000 to Feeding America, which they tell us has paid for 10,000 meals for Americans struggling right now. We've also been supporting a Kenyan girl's higher education, in ...
The Forebears We Share: Learning From Radical History (Post)We've spent the whole year working on new tea towel designs celebrating history's radical ancestors. Here are a few to inspire your family and friends this holiday season. There’s a Spanish word, ...