Single Tax

Title

Single Tax

Description

Henry George (1839-1897) was the leading intellectual light in the Single Tax movement

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This academic article touches on connections to African-American communities and remnants of the Abolitionist movement. Notes a boycott of a segregated Chicago hotel in the early 1900s. Dominic Candeloro, "The Single Tax Movement and Progressivism, 1880-1920" The American Journal of Economics and Sociology , Apr., 1979, Vol. 38, No. 2 (Apr., 1979), pp. 113-127

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Temporal Coverage

Late 19th and early 20th Century, Progressive Era