Timeline
Timeline 1909 January 9,1909 Senator Robert M. La Follette Sr. founds La Follette's Weekly Magazine, "a magazine of progress, social, intellectual, institutional." May 1909 Jane Addams publishes...
...1924 February 1923 Repre sentative George Hud-dleston editorializes on the plight of U.S...
...writes for The Progressive on the student lunch-counter protests in the South...
...political prisoners being held under "war laws...
...1979 March 1979 The U.S...
...1954 April 1954 The Progressive publishes an expos...
...It becomes the best-selling issue of The Progressive...
...government sues The Progressive in an attempt to prevent publication of the article "The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It-Why We're Telling It...
...December 1962 James Baldwin publishes "A Letter to My Nephew" in The Progressive...
...1944 October 1947 The Progressive suspends publication for three months because of economic difficulties...
...December 1941 The Progressive, after advocating neutrality, supports U.S...
...June 18,1925 Robert M. La Follette Sr...
...1929 December 1929 Belle Case La Follette renames La Follette's Weekly as The Progressive...
...1994 1996 The Progressive wins the George Polk Award for "Stunning Technology," a report on the electronic stun belt, by Anne-Marie Cusac...
...entry into World War II once Pearl Harbor is attacked...
...1969 April 1970 The Progressive publishes a special Earth Day issue: "The Crisis of Survival...
...entry into World War I. 1919 June 1921 Helen Keller describes her life philosophy in La Follette's Weekly Magazine...
...1964 October 1963 The Progressive expresses early opposition to the Vietnam War and suggests that the war will turn out to be a catastrophe...
...1989 1990 Editor Erwin Knoll begins stint on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour roundtable and speaks out against the first Gulf War...
...1961 Morris Rubin, editor of The Progressive, wins the George Polk Award for his coverage of Latin America...
...September 2001 Thomas J. Nagy publishes "The Secret Behind the Sanctions," which reveals that the Pentagon knew in advance that sanctions on Iraq would cause epidemics...
...1949 September 1948 The Progressive, revived by contributions from subscribers, endorses Norman Thomas for President...
...1959 May 1960 Martin Luther King Jr...
...of U.S...
...support for killers in El Salvador, by Allan Nairn...
...1997 Ruth Conniff becomes Washington Editor and appears regularly on CNN's Sunday Capital Gang...
...1999 March 2001 Progressive columnist June Jordan writes "The Invisible People: Black Rage and the Stolen Election...
...1914 February 1915 Belle Case La Follette editorializes on the suffrage movement...
...A Milwaukee federal court issues a prior restraint order against The Progressive for seven months...
...2004 2002-2003 The Progressive opposes George W. Bush's Iraq War...
...1984 May 1984 The Progressive publishes "Behind the Death Squads," an expos...
...October 6,1917 Robert La Follette opposes U.S...
...dies...
...1934 1939 January 1938 Upton Sinclair writes for The Progressive about the pernicious effects of advertising...
...May 1909 Jane Addams publishes "The Reaction of Moral Instruction Upon Social Reform" in La Follette's Weekly Magazine...
...January 2002 Editor Matthew Rothschild writes on "The New McCarthyism...
...1974 1973 Progressive contributor and subsequent editor Erwin Knoll is named to President Richard Nixon's "Enemies List...
...Senate and helps prompt a reappraisal of McCarthy's tactics...
...of Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism.The issue is read aloud in the U.S...
Vol. 68 • May 2004 • No. 5
