Comments on: March of the Mill Children

By: Eight Famous Women Immigrants in the United States > The Immigrant Learning Center

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:45:59 +0000

[…] time she had no permanent address. She attracted national attention when she organized the “March of the Mill Children,” a march of child millworkers to President Roosevelt’s doorstep. Almost a century after she […]

By: The Power of Youth and the Wisdom of Age | Executive Soul Blog

The Power of Youth and the Wisdom of Age | Executive Soul Blog — Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:32:49 +0000

[…] activists who greatly influenced the public’s view of the war. In 1903, children took part in a three-week march from Philadelphia to New York to bring light to the need for child labor laws which could protect […]

By: Cole Anderson

Cole Anderson — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 12:53:14 +0000

Wow, really liked this artcile. Helped me a lot with my history homwork! Lol, if I ever do it ;)!! Haha. But i actually read this and like I really liked it so awesome!

By: Placing the National School Walkout in Historical Context: A Lesson Plan - American Historical Association

Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:00:03 +0000

[…] activism, focusing on both participants and their methods. We will begin with Mother Jones’s 1903 March of the Mill Children, where more than 200 child laborers marched from Philadelphia to New York to protest horrific […]

By: School Shooting March for Our Lives: Part of a Deep History | Time

School Shooting March for Our Lives: Part of a Deep History | Time — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:54:26 +0000

[…] Jones put children in animal cages to raise awareness of child-labor issues, and led the March of the Mill Children campaign that took place in July of 1903. During that episode, dozens of children were among the […]

By: Welcome to Clintonville: Kensington Shantytown Built in Protest of Hillary Clinton and DNC – Spirit News - Spirit News

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:27:13 +0000

[…] of marginalized American communities. Mother Jones (the labor leader, not the magazine) lead the March of the Mill Children from American Street in Kensington to the New York home of President Teddy Roosevelt in […]

By: jesica

jesica — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 16:51:21 +0000

Thanks this helped a lot. This was really helpful.

By: Steven Halpern

Steven Halpern — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 20:16:45 +0000

Gail Friedman,
Thanks for this article that I just read for the first time. I believe we are agreed that Mother Jones was one of the truly great leaders to live in this country. I wrote a biographical poem about her life that you can see by searching Mother Jones name on my blog.

In solidarity,

Steve Halpern

By: Campaign Question: Is Upward Mobility a Thing of the Past? - WhoWhatWhy

Campaign Question: Is Upward Mobility a Thing of the Past? - WhoWhatWhy — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 11:00:47 +0000

[…] says it’s more than ironic that Kensington was the starting point of the 1904 March of the Mill Children, which was organized by Mary Harris “Mother” Jones to highlight the exploitation of millions of […]

By: Mother Jones is on her way to Oyster Bay – join the march! | Mom Read It

Sat, 02 Jul 2016 16:32:42 +0000

[…] Way to Oyster Bay is a fictionalized account of the very real story of activist Mother Jones’ March of the Mill Children, beginning in Pennsylvania and going all the way through the streets of Manhattan, ending up on […]