Lanterna Rally

Author: G. Thomas Edwards

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780295963280

Practically since the turn of the century, the Northwest has been a region of paradoxes. Women, who in Washington had acquired suffrage and lost it in the 1880s, regained it and later elected a woman mayor of Seattle. Exploitation of workers, despite, or perhaps because of, abundance has been extreme-- and has engendered some of America's most radical labor movements. Both racial backlash and enlightened reforms characterize the region.