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1. Introduction / Heather Ann Thompson
2. African American activism in the Midwest / James Ralph
Equal Education for All! (1962) / Chicago Committee for Equal Education
Program of the Chicago Freedom Movement (1966) / Chicago Freedom Movement
DRUM Demands (1968) / Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Where we stand (1969) / United Front of Cairo, Illinois
Inaugural address (1968) / Richard Hatcher
Operation P.U.S.H. platform (1971) / People United to Serve Humanity
3. African American activism in the North / Wendell E. Pritchett
Demands placed on the door of Chicago City Hall (1966) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Statement to save school decentralization and community control (1968) / Emergency Citizens' Committee
What we want, what we believe (1966) / Black Panther Party
Welfare is a women's issue (1972) / Johnnie Tillmon
Inaugural address (1974) / Coleman Young
4. African American activism in the South / Jane Dailey
Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. (1959) / Stetson Kennedy
Challenge to Negro leadership : the case of Robert Williams (1961) / Julian Mayfield
The Southern patriot (1960) / Ella J. Baker
Freedom summer (1964) / Sally Belfrage
Our God is marching on! (1965) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interview with Bayard Rustin (1977) / Howell Raines
What we want (1966) / Stokely Carmichael
5. African American activism in the West / William L. Van Deburg
Article. 17 Chain stores picketed by sympathizers of Negro sit-downs (1960)
Editorial. Wrong tactic for Los Angeles (1960)
Letters to the editor. Student picketing debated (1960)
Causes sought as Watts smoulders (1965) / Alistair Cooke
Kwanzaa : concepts and functions (1979) / M. Ron Karenga
On meeting the needs of the people (1969) / Eldridge Cleaver
6. Animal rights activism / Susan J. Pearson
Cat lovers pounce on lab research (1977) / Carol Oppenheim
Your money is paying for torture at the American Museum of Natural History (1976) / New York Times
Equality for animals? (1979) / Peter Singer
Animal dealer regulation hearings before Committee on Commerce (1966) / U.S. Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress
7. Anti-nuclear activism / Lawrence S. Wittner
Women Strike for Peace, A letter to Nikita Khrushchev (1962) / Women Strike for Peace
What SANE is and is not (1962) / Homer Jack
We re-set the clock (1974) / Samuel Day
No more Hiroshimas! (1977) / Mobilization for Survival
Call to halt the nuclear arms race (1980) / Nuclear Freeze Campaign
8. Anti-war activism / Kenneth J. Heineman
The new radicals and the multiversity (1966) / Carl Davidson
Trapped in a system (1965) / Carl Oglesby
What can the young believe? (1967) / Robert F. Kennedy
Broadcast over radio Hanoi to American servicemen involved in the Indochina War (1972) / Jane Fonda
March on Washington against the war (1971) / United Women's Contingent
9. The Asian American movement / Daryl J. Maeda
In the movement office (1971) / Killer Fawn
AAPA perspectives (1969) / Asian American Political Alliance
Third World people : shoulder to shoulder (1974) / Pat Sumi
U.S. savages (1971) / Rodan
Our political program (1969) / Red Guard Party
10. Chicano activism / Matt Garcia
La Conferencia De Mujeres Por La Raza (1971) / Marta Cotera
The U.F.W. anti-immigrant campaign and falling out with Bert Corona, M.A.P.A., and other Chicano groups (2005) / Alfredo Figueroa
Declaration (1975) / Ramon Perez Meija
United Farm Workers National Union, AFL-CIO, et al. plaintiffs, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. defendants (1973) / UFW
11. Consumer rights activism / Jürgen Ruckaberle
Boycott Bulletin (1969) / United Mexican American Students
Our history (1969) / Consumers Education and Protective Association
Housewives' friend Esther Peterson (1966) / New York Times
Lemonstration makes history (1975) / Consumer Action News
President Kennedy on protecting the consumer interest (1962) / John F. Kennedy
We're Still in the Jungle (1967) / Ralph Nader
The burned children : 4,000 fatal fabric fires (1971) / Ralph Nader
12. Disability rights activism / Paul K. Longmore
The right to live in the world : the disabled in the Law of Torts (1966) / Jacobus tenBroek
Toward human rights for the mentally retarded : a challenge to social action (1969) / Gunnar Dybwad
On our own : patient controlled alternatives to the mental health system (1978) / Judi Chamberlin
Disabled People's Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence (1979) / Disability Rights Center
13. Environmental activism / Angela G. Mertig
The obligation to endure (1962) / Rachel Carson
Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so tourists can get nearer the ceiling? (1967) / Sierra Club
Birth and early days : the founding of EDF (1990) / Dennis Puleston
The beginning : Earth Day (1970) / Dennis Hayes
14. Gay and lesbian activism / Craig A. Rimmerman
A gay manifesto (1969) / Carl Wittman
What concrete steps can be taken to further the homophile movement? (1966) / Shirley Willer
Lesbians in revolt (1972) / Charlotte Bunch
A leaflet for the American Medical Association (1970) / Chicago Gay Liberation Front
15. Labor activism / Joseph A. McCartin
Remembering work as an air traffic controller (ca. 1960) / Mike Rock
Controllers experiment with organization (1967) / Russell Sommer
Challenging the federal government (1970) / National directors of PATCO
Confronting racial discrimination in the late 1960s (2002) / Richard Jones
Confronting sexual harassment in the mid-1970s (2002) / Cheryl Jenni
Preparing for confrontation (ca. 1979) / PATCO local union newsletter
A broken union (1981) / Ronald A. Oberhauser
16. Native American activism / Troy Johnson
The trail of broken treaties (1972) / Manifesto of the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council
The American Indian Movement (1968) / Statement by the American Indian Movement
The BIA and the plight of the American Indian (1973) / New York Times
Wounded Knee (1973) / Statement by the American Indian Movement
Alcatraz is not an island (1969) / Indians of all tribes
Indian Proclamation (1969) / Richard Oaks
Proclamation to the Great White Father and all his people (1969) / Indians of all tribes
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program (1952) / Department of the Interior : Bureau of Indian Affairs
17. Poverty rights activism / Felicia Kornbluh
Letters to the mayor (1960s) / Low income mothers in New York City
Testimony by welfare rights representatives and representative Martha Griffiths at hearings on income maintenance (1969) / U.S. House of Representatives
Poems by welfare rights activists (1969-1970) / Welfare Fighter
NWRO leader on work and welfare (1974) / Beulah Sanders
NWRO President speaks on President Richard Nixon's (1970) / Johnnie Tillmon
Newspaper profile of Johnnie Tillmon, and irate letters from readers (1968) / Washington Post
18. Prison rights activism / Heather McCarty
The Outlaw (1968) / San Quentin Prison
"Bill of particulars," a convict report on the major grievances of the prison population with suggested solutions (1969) / San Quentin Prison
Soledad Brother (1970) / George Jackson
The Folsom prisoners manifesto of demands and anti-oppression platform (1970) / Folsom Prison
The struggle for justice : a report on crime and punishment in America (1971) / American Friends Service Committee
We are men (1971) / Elliot Barkley
19. Puerto Rican activism / Carmen Teresa Whalen
13 point program and platform (1971) / The Young Lords Party
The Philadelphia Young Lords (1970) / Juan Ramos
Declaration (1973) / Puerto Rican Socialist Party
Somos Puertorriquenos y Estamos Despertando (c.1971) / Puerto Rican Student Union
Puerto Rican obituary (1973) / Pedro Pietri
20. Student activism / Rusty Monhollon
The report of the President's Commission on campus unrest, Jackson State (1970)
A Declaration of Independence (1965) / The Free Speech Movement
Dress code (1971-1972) / Perryville, Arkansas School District
Gay students organization of the University of New Hampshire v. Bonner (1974) / Court Ruling from U.S. Court of Appeals (1st. Cir.)
Women and the radical movement (1968) / Shulamith Firestone
21. Women's rights activism / Kathleen C. Berkeley
A Bill of Rights for women (1968) / National Organization for Women
Letter to the brothers (1968) / Black Women's Liberation Group, Mount Vernon, New York
Statement (1971) / Elma Barrera
Lesbian rights, NOW (1971) / National Organization for Women
New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference, workshop summary (1971) / Mary Ann Manhart
Expanded Bill of Rights for the twenty-first century (1989) / National Organization for Women
22. Yelling just as loudly : conservative activism in the sixties and seventies / Gregory L. Schneider
National Review : Credenda and Statement of Principles (1955) / William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Sharon statement (1960) / Young Americans for Freedom
New Left violence (1969) / Young Americans for Freedom
Statement on the draft (1969) / Randall Cornell Teague
What's wrong with equal rights for women? (1972) / Phyllis Schlafly
The Moral Majority and its goals (1979) / Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority
Contributors.
1. Introduction / Heather Ann Thompson
2. African American activism in the Midwest / James Ralph
Equal Education for All! (1962) / Chicago Committee for Equal Education
Program of the Chicago Freedom Movement (1966) / Chicago Freedom Movement
DRUM Demands (1968) / Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Where we stand (1969) / United Front of Cairo, Illinois
Inaugural address (1968) / Richard Hatcher
Operation P.U.S.H. platform (1971) / People United to Serve Humanity
3. African American activism in the North / Wendell E. Pritchett
Demands placed on the door of Chicago City Hall (1966) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Statement to save school decentralization and community control (1968) / Emergency Citizens' Committee
What we want, what we believe (1966) / Black Panther Party
Welfare is a women's issue (1972) / Johnnie Tillmon
Inaugural address (1974) / Coleman Young
4. African American activism in the South / Jane Dailey
Jim Crow guide to the U.S.A. (1959) / Stetson Kennedy
Challenge to Negro leadership : the case of Robert Williams (1961) / Julian Mayfield
The Southern patriot (1960) / Ella J. Baker
Freedom summer (1964) / Sally Belfrage
Our God is marching on! (1965) / Martin Luther King, Jr.
Interview with Bayard Rustin (1977) / Howell Raines
What we want (1966) / Stokely Carmichael
5. African American activism in the West / William L. Van Deburg
Article. 17 Chain stores picketed by sympathizers of Negro sit-downs (1960)
Editorial. Wrong tactic for Los Angeles (1960)
Letters to the editor. Student picketing debated (1960)
Causes sought as Watts smoulders (1965) / Alistair Cooke
Kwanzaa : concepts and functions (1979) / M. Ron Karenga
On meeting the needs of the people (1969) / Eldridge Cleaver
6. Animal rights activism / Susan J. Pearson
Cat lovers pounce on lab research (1977) / Carol Oppenheim
Your money is paying for torture at the American Museum of Natural History (1976) / New York Times
Equality for animals? (1979) / Peter Singer
Animal dealer regulation hearings before Committee on Commerce (1966) / U.S. Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress
7. Anti-nuclear activism / Lawrence S. Wittner
Women Strike for Peace, A letter to Nikita Khrushchev (1962) / Women Strike for Peace
What SANE is and is not (1962) / Homer Jack
We re-set the clock (1974) / Samuel Day
No more Hiroshimas! (1977) / Mobilization for Survival
Call to halt the nuclear arms race (1980) / Nuclear Freeze Campaign
8. Anti-war activism / Kenneth J. Heineman
The new radicals and the multiversity (1966) / Carl Davidson
Trapped in a system (1965) / Carl Oglesby
What can the young believe? (1967) / Robert F. Kennedy
Broadcast over radio Hanoi to American servicemen involved in the Indochina War (1972) / Jane Fonda
March on Washington against the war (1971) / United Women's Contingent
9. The Asian American movement / Daryl J. Maeda
In the movement office (1971) / Killer Fawn
AAPA perspectives (1969) / Asian American Political Alliance
Third World people : shoulder to shoulder (1974) / Pat Sumi
U.S. savages (1971) / Rodan
Our political program (1969) / Red Guard Party
10. Chicano activism / Matt Garcia
La Conferencia De Mujeres Por La Raza (1971) / Marta Cotera
The U.F.W. anti-immigrant campaign and falling out with Bert Corona, M.A.P.A., and other Chicano groups (2005) / Alfredo Figueroa
Declaration (1975) / Ramon Perez Meija
United Farm Workers National Union, AFL-CIO, et al. plaintiffs, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, et al. defendants (1973) / UFW
11. Consumer rights activism / Jürgen Ruckaberle
Boycott Bulletin (1969) / United Mexican American Students
Our history (1969) / Consumers Education and Protective Association
Housewives' friend Esther Peterson (1966) / New York Times
Lemonstration makes history (1975) / Consumer Action News
President Kennedy on protecting the consumer interest (1962) / John F. Kennedy
We're Still in the Jungle (1967) / Ralph Nader
The burned children : 4,000 fatal fabric fires (1971) / Ralph Nader
12. Disability rights activism / Paul K. Longmore
The right to live in the world : the disabled in the Law of Torts (1966) / Jacobus tenBroek
Toward human rights for the mentally retarded : a challenge to social action (1969) / Gunnar Dybwad
On our own : patient controlled alternatives to the mental health system (1978) / Judi Chamberlin
Disabled People's Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence (1979) / Disability Rights Center
13. Environmental activism / Angela G. Mertig
The obligation to endure (1962) / Rachel Carson
Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel so tourists can get nearer the ceiling? (1967) / Sierra Club
Birth and early days : the founding of EDF (1990) / Dennis Puleston
The beginning : Earth Day (1970) / Dennis Hayes
14. Gay and lesbian activism / Craig A. Rimmerman
A gay manifesto (1969) / Carl Wittman
What concrete steps can be taken to further the homophile movement? (1966) / Shirley Willer
Lesbians in revolt (1972) / Charlotte Bunch
A leaflet for the American Medical Association (1970) / Chicago Gay Liberation Front
15. Labor activism / Joseph A. McCartin
Remembering work as an air traffic controller (ca. 1960) / Mike Rock
Controllers experiment with organization (1967) / Russell Sommer
Challenging the federal government (1970) / National directors of PATCO
Confronting racial discrimination in the late 1960s (2002) / Richard Jones
Confronting sexual harassment in the mid-1970s (2002) / Cheryl Jenni
Preparing for confrontation (ca. 1979) / PATCO local union newsletter
A broken union (1981) / Ronald A. Oberhauser
16. Native American activism / Troy Johnson
The trail of broken treaties (1972) / Manifesto of the American Indian Movement Grand Governing Council
The American Indian Movement (1968) / Statement by the American Indian Movement
The BIA and the plight of the American Indian (1973) / New York Times
Wounded Knee (1973) / Statement by the American Indian Movement
Alcatraz is not an island (1969) / Indians of all tribes
Indian Proclamation (1969) / Richard Oaks
Proclamation to the Great White Father and all his people (1969) / Indians of all tribes
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program (1952) / Department of the Interior : Bureau of Indian Affairs
17. Poverty rights activism / Felicia Kornbluh
Letters to the mayor (1960s) / Low income mothers in New York City
Testimony by welfare rights representatives and representative Martha Griffiths at hearings on income maintenance (1969) / U.S. House of Representatives
Poems by welfare rights activists (1969-1970) / Welfare Fighter
NWRO leader on work and welfare (1974) / Beulah Sanders
NWRO President speaks on President Richard Nixon's (1970) / Johnnie Tillmon
Newspaper profile of Johnnie Tillmon, and irate letters from readers (1968) / Washington Post
18. Prison rights activism / Heather McCarty
The Outlaw (1968) / San Quentin Prison
"Bill of particulars," a convict report on the major grievances of the prison population with suggested solutions (1969) / San Quentin Prison
Soledad Brother (1970) / George Jackson
The Folsom prisoners manifesto of demands and anti-oppression platform (1970) / Folsom Prison
The struggle for justice : a report on crime and punishment in America (1971) / American Friends Service Committee
We are men (1971) / Elliot Barkley
19. Puerto Rican activism / Carmen Teresa Whalen
13 point program and platform (1971) / The Young Lords Party
The Philadelphia Young Lords (1970) / Juan Ramos
Declaration (1973) / Puerto Rican Socialist Party
Somos Puertorriquenos y Estamos Despertando (c.1971) / Puerto Rican Student Union
Puerto Rican obituary (1973) / Pedro Pietri
20. Student activism / Rusty Monhollon
The report of the President's Commission on campus unrest, Jackson State (1970)
A Declaration of Independence (1965) / The Free Speech Movement
Dress code (1971-1972) / Perryville, Arkansas School District
Gay students organization of the University of New Hampshire v. Bonner (1974) / Court Ruling from U.S. Court of Appeals (1st. Cir.)
Women and the radical movement (1968) / Shulamith Firestone
21. Women's rights activism / Kathleen C. Berkeley
A Bill of Rights for women (1968) / National Organization for Women
Letter to the brothers (1968) / Black Women's Liberation Group, Mount Vernon, New York
Statement (1971) / Elma Barrera
Lesbian rights, NOW (1971) / National Organization for Women
New York Radical Feminists Rape Conference, workshop summary (1971) / Mary Ann Manhart
Expanded Bill of Rights for the twenty-first century (1989) / National Organization for Women
22. Yelling just as loudly : conservative activism in the sixties and seventies / Gregory L. Schneider
National Review : Credenda and Statement of Principles (1955) / William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Sharon statement (1960) / Young Americans for Freedom
New Left violence (1969) / Young Americans for Freedom
Statement on the draft (1969) / Randall Cornell Teague
What's wrong with equal rights for women? (1972) / Phyllis Schlafly
The Moral Majority and its goals (1979) / Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority
Contributors.