Topic: Voting Rights
1920s
American Fabric: The Ukrainian Needlecraft Guild and “Americanization” in the Progressive Era
The People’s Institute and the Ukrainian Needlecraft Guild offer a lens through which to examine the entanglement of Progressive Era reform, immigration, labor, and early twentieth-century philanthropy.
Timeline: A Century of American Philanthropy’s Engagement with Race and Racism
Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.
1950s
1960s
1970s
Funding a Social Movement: The Ford Foundation and Civil Rights, 1965-1970
A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.