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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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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)
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.