| Description |
xxix, 541 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The John Harvard library |
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John Harvard library.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-527) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / John Stauffer -- Introduction -- 1. Declaring independence : The American revolution -- The literature -- "A political litany (1775) / Philip Freneau -- From Common Sense (1776) / Thomas Paine -- From "The dominion of providence over the passions of men" (1776) / John Witherspoon -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- From Letters from an American Farmer (1782) / J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur -- The legacy -- "The Working Men's Party Declaration of Independence (1829) / George Evans -- "Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments" (1848) -- From "Resistance to civil government" (1849) / Henry David Thoreau -- From "Provisional constitution" (1858) / John Brown -- From "Declaration of interdependence by the Socialist Labor Party" (1895) / Daniel De Leon -- |
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2. Unvanishing the Indian : Native American rights -- The literature -- Speech to Governor William Harrison at Vincennes (1810) / Tecumseh -- "An Indian's looking-glass for the White man" (1933) / William Apess -- "Indian names" (1834) / Lydia Sigourney -- From From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916) / Charles Eastman -- From Black Elk Speaks (1932) / Black Elk and John G. Neihardt -- The legacy -- From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) / Dee Brown -- "What is the American Indian Movement?" (1973) / Birgil Kills Straight and Richard LaCourse -- "American Indians and Vietnamese" (1973) / Roland Winkler -- From Lakota Woman (1990) / Mary Crow Dog -- "The exaggeration of despair" (1996) / Sherman Alexie -- |
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3. Little books that started a big war : Abolition and antislavery -- The literature -- From Appeal to the Coloured Citizens (1829) / David Walker -- From Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) / Harriet Beecher Stow -- From "The meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852) / Frederick Douglass -- Prison letters (1859) / John Brown -- From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) / Harriet Jacobs -- The legacy -- The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution (1863, 1865-1870) -- "Solidarity forever" (1915) / Ralph Chaplin -- From "Everybody's protest novel" (1949) / James Baldwin -- From The Defiant Ones (1958) / Stanley Kramer -- From Disposable People : New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999) / Kevin Bales -- |
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4. This land is herland : Women's rights and suffragism -- The literature -- From "Shall women have the right to vote?" (1851) / Wendell Phillips -- From "Women and suffrage" (1867) / Lydia Maria Child -- From "Declaration and protest of the women of the United States" (1876) / National Woman Suffrage Association -- From "Solitude of self" (1892) / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- "The yellow wallpaper" (1892) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The legacy -- "Frederick Douglass" (1908) / Mary Church Terrell -- From "why women should vote" (1910) / Jane Addams -- From Herland (1915) / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Nineteenth Amendment and Equal Rights Amendments (1920, 1923, 1943) -- "Now we can begin" (1920) / Crystal Eastman -- |
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5. Capitalism's discontents : Socialism and industry -- The literature -- From Life in the Iron Mills (1861) / Rebecca Harding Davis -- From Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) / Edward Bellamy -- From How the Other Half Lives (1890) / Jacob Riis -- From The Jungle (1906) / Upton Sinclair -- "Sadie Pfeifer" and "Making human junk" (1908, 1915) / Lewis Hine -- The legacy -- From "the People's Party platform (1992) / Ignatius Donnelly -- From Food and Drugs Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906) -- Statement to the Court (1906) / Eugene V. Debs -- "Farewell, capitalist America!" (1929) / William (Big Bill) Haywood -- From Nickel and Dimed (2001) / Barbara Ehrenreich -- |
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6. Strange fruit : Against lynching -- The literature -- From Southern Horrors (1892) / Ida B. Wells -- "Jesus Christ in Texas" (1920) / W.E.B. Du Bois -- "The lynching" (1920) / Claude McKay -- From "Big Boy leaves home" (1936) / Richard Wright -- "Strange fruit" (1937, 1939) / Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday -- The legacy -- "Bill for Negro rights and the suppression of lynching" (1934) / League of Struggle for Negro Rights -- "Federal law is imperative" (1947) / Helen Gahagan Douglas -- "Take a stand against the Klan" (1980) / The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee -- From "AmeriKKKa 1998 : the lynching of James Byrd (1998) / Michael Slate -- "The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930" (2000) -- |
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7. Dust tracks on the road : The Great depression -- The literature -- "Migrant mother" (1936) / Dorothea Lange -- "Farmer and sons" (1936) / Arthur Rothstein -- From The Grapes of Wrath (193) / John Steinbeck -- Hale County, Alabama (1936, 1941) / Walker Evans -- From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) / James Agee -- The legacy -- "Tom Joad" (1940) / Woody Guthrie -- From 12 Million Black Voices (1941) / Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam -- From The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955) / Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes -- From The Other America (1962) / Michael Harrington -- "Poverty is a crime" (1972) / Malik -- |
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8. The dungeon shook : Civil rights and Black liberation -- The literature -- "Montgomery : reflections of a loving alien" (1956) / Robert Granat -- "My dungeon shook" (1962) / James Baldwin -- From "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Civil rights march on Washington, D.C." (1963) / Marion Trikosko -- From "The ballot of the bullet" (1964) / Malcolm X -- The legacy -- "On civil rights (1963) / John F. Kennedy -- From "The American promise" (1965) / Lyndon B. Johnson -- "Black art" (1966) / Amiri Baraka -- "Panther power" (1989) / Tupac Shakur -- "Ten point program" (2001) / New Black Panther Party -- 9. A problem that had no name : Second-wave feminism -- The literature -- "I stand here ironing" (1956) / Tillie Olsen -- From The Feminine Mystique (1963) / Betty Friedan -- "Statement of purpose" (1966) / National Organization for Women -- "Women's liberation has a different meaning for blacks" (1970) / Renee Ferguson -- "For the Equal Rights Amendment" (1970) / Shirley Chisholm -- |
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10. The word is out : Gay liberation -- The literature -- From "Howl" (1956) / Allen Ginsberg -- Stonewall documents (1969-1970) -- From "Refugees from Amerika : a gay manifesto" (1969) / Carl Wittman -- "The women's liberation and gay liberation movements" (1970) / Huey P. Newton -- From Street Theater (1982) / Doric Wilson -- The legacy -- "Read my lips" (1988) / ACT UP ; Still/Here (1994) / Bill T. Jones -- From Angels in America (1990, 1991) / Tony Kushner -- "Dyke manifesto" (1993) / Lesbian Avengers -- From Stone Butch Blues (1993) / Leslie Feinberg -- Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003) -- |
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11. From Saigon to Baghdad : The Vietnam war and beyond -- The literature -- "I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die-rag" (1965) / Country Joe and the Fish -- "Advent 1966" (1966) / Denise Levertov -- From Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967) / Norman Mailer -- "Saigon" (1968) / Eddie Adams ; "Napalm" (1972) / Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut -- From Dispatches (1967-1969, 1977) / Michael Herr -- The legacy -- "April 30, 1975" (1975) / John Balaban -- From "How to tell a true war story" (1987) / Tim O'Brien -- Poets against the war -- "Speak out" (2003) / Lawrence Ferlinghetti -- "Poem of war" (2003) / Jim Harrison -- "Poem of disconnected parts" (2005) / Robert Pinsky -- "Who would Jesus torture?" (2004) / Clinton Fein -- From Born on the Fourth of July (1976, 2005) / Ron Kovic -- Afterword / Howard Zinn -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Subject |
Radicalism -- United States.
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Protest literature, American.
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Protest movements -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Trodd, Zoe.
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| ISBN |
0674023528 alkaline paper |
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9780674023529 |
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