Sierra Club

(noun)

One of the oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organizations in the United States, founded in 1892.

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Examples of Sierra Club in the following topics:

  • Environmental Protests

    • Organizations like The Sierra Club and Greenpeace, as well as the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, contributed to the growth of the environmental movement during this time period.
    • 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.
    • The Sierra Club's most publicized crusade of the 1960s was the effort to stop the Bureau of Reclamation from building two dams that would flood portions of the Grand Canyon.
    • President Theodore Roosevelt and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.

  • Legislative Leadership

    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the federal government by 1905.

  • Roosevelt and Conservation

    • Working through the Sierra Club, Muir succeeded in having Congress transfer the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the Federal Government by 1905.

  • The Working Woman

    • 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.

  • The Transcontinental Railroads

    • The Central Pacific Railroad, facing a labor shortage in the more sparsely-settled West, relied on Chinese laborers who did prodigious work building the line over and through the Sierra Nevada mountains and then across Nevada to their meeting in northern Utah.
    • In the final days of working in the Sierras, the recently invented nitroglycerin explosive was introduced and used on the last tunnels including Summit Tunnel.

  • The Spanish Flu

    • In August 1918, a more virulent strain appeared simultaneously in Brest, France, Freetown, Sierra Leone in West Africa, and Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
    • But in August 1918, when the second wave began in France, Sierra Leone and the United States, the virus had mutated into a much deadlier form.

  • The Cuban Revolution

    • After arriving and exiting the ship, the band of rebels began to make their way into the Sierra Maestra mountains, a range in southeastern Cuba.
    • Raul Castro, left, with has his arm around second-in-command, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold south of Havana, Cuba, during the Cuban Revolution.

  • Progress and Poverty

    • Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
    • These clubs worked to bring about Bellamy's predicted world.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

  • Gronlund and Bellamy

    • Bellamy's vision of a harmonious future world inspired the formation of over 160 "Nationalist Clubs" dedicated to the propagation of Bellamy's political ideas.
    • These clubs worked to bring about Bellamy's predicted world.
    • By 1891, it was reported that no fewer than 162 Nationalist Clubs were in existence.
    • At this time, Bellamy began to promote united action between the various Nationalist Clubs and the emerging People's Party.
    • With key Nationalist Club activists largely absorbed into the apparatus of the People's Party, Bellamy abandoned politics and returned to literature.

  • Mining on the Comstock Lode

    • After arriving much too early to cross the Sierra, they camped on the Carson river in the vicinity of Dayton to wait for the mountain snow to melt.