Examples of Campaign Clubs in the following topics:
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- Mobilizing Voters was the basic campaign strategy to the maximum mobilization of potential votes.
- Both parties set up campaign clubs, such as the Wide Awakes, in which young men paraded in torchlight processions wearing special uniforms and holding colorful banners.
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- The 1828 campaign differed significantly from earlier presidential contests because of the party organization that promoted Andrew Jackson.
- From Nashville, Tennessee, the Jackson campaign organized supporters around the nation through editorials in partisan newspapers and other publications.
- Though he did not wage an election campaign filled with public appearances, Jackson did give one major campaign speech in New Orleans on January 8, the anniversary of the defeat of the British in 1815.
- Democratic organizations called "Hickory Clubs," a tribute to Jackson’s nickname, "Old Hickory," also worked tirelessly to ensure his election.
- The campaign was marked by an impressive amount of mudslinging.
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- Lathrop ran a discussion group called the Plato Club in the early days of the House.
- The women at Hull House actively campaigned to persuade Congress to pass legislation to protect children.
- Lathrop helped found the country's first juvenile court in 1899, and the Chicago Woman's Club established the Juvenile Court Committee (electing Lathrop as its first president in 1903) to pay the salaries of fifteen probation officers and run a detention home located at 625 West Adams Street.
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- Modern environmentalism grew in the 1950s and '60s with the support of organizations and large-scale media campaigns.
- The Sierra Club was founded on May 28, 1892, in San Francisco, California, by the conservationist and preservationist John Muir, who became its first president.
- During the 1800s, the Sierra Club worked to create national parks, such as Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.
- It focuses its campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, commercial whaling, and anti-nuclear issues.
- President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.
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- After the Supreme Court ruled against them in 1875, suffragists began the decades-long campaign for an amendment to the U.S.
- The reform campaigns of the Progressive Era strengthened the suffrage movement.
- Most often the antis believed that politics was dirty and that women's involvement would surrender the moral high ground that women had claimed, and that partisanship would disrupt local club work for civic betterment, as represented by the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
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- As Ronald Reagan campaigned for President in 1980, some of his strongest supporters were members of the Religious Right, including Christian groups like the Moral Majority, 61% of whom voted for him.
- Christian television programs, such as Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club and Jim Bakker’s The PTL (Praise the Lord) Club, proved enormously popular and raised millions of dollars from viewer contributions.
- Following a well-funded but failed bid for the U.S. presidency in 1988, religious broadcaster and political commentator Pat Robertson used the remains of his campaign machinery to jump-start the creation of a voter mobilization effort dubbed the Christian Coalition.
- However, despite public announcements that excitement among evangelical and Christian right voters to Robertson's presidential campaign triggered the creation of the Christian Coalition, the incorporation records of the State of Virginia reveal that the Christian Coalition, Inc., was actually incorporated on April 30, 1987, with the paperwork filed earlier and with planning having begun before that.
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- This turmoil provided the backdrop for a contentious campaign.
- Wallace and the Alabama governor's third-party campaign in the general election.
- In a clash covered on live television, the Chicago police beat antiwar protesters in the streets of Chicago, using clubs and tear gas and leaving many protesters bloody and dazed.
- One central theme of the campaign was the issue of urban unrest, piqued by the riots which had hit American cities since 1965, with the most recent wave prompted by Dr.
- The Nixon campaign promised to restore "law and order", which appealed widely.
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- After weeks of various forms of nonviolent disobiedience, the campaign produced the desired results.
- The church was one of the most important places of organization and protest during the campaign.
- Nightly marches to the Old Slave Market were attacked by white mobs, and when African Americans attempted to integrate "white-only" beaches they were assaulted by police who beat them with clubs.
- Augustine campaigns won passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- Led by Reverend Hosea Williams of SCLC and John Lewis of SNCC, the marchers were attacked by state Ttoopers, deputy sheriffs, and mounted possemen who used tear gas, clubs, and bull whips to drive them back to Brown Chapel.
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- Indignant that she and other women were denied admittance to a banquet honoring Charles Dickens in 1868 at the all-male New York Press Club simply because they were women, she resolved to organize a club for women only.
- Croly proposed a conference in New York that brought together delegates from 61 women's clubs.
- The constitution was adopted in 1890, and the General Federation of Women's Clubs was born.
- The GFWC also counts international clubs among its members.
- Although women's clubs were founded primarily as a means of self-education and development for women, the emphasis of most local clubs gradually changed to one of community service and improvement.
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- The League engaged in campaigns, in which it aimed to educate the public about the legislative process.
- He popularized his ideas through radio and Share Our Wealth clubs began to mushroom across the country.
- Share Our Wealth clubs had millions of members and tens of millions of Americans listened to Long on the radio every week.