Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword by John Stauffer
Introduction
1. Declaring Independence: The American Revolution
Philip Freneau | “A Political Litany” (1775)
Thomas Paine | From Common Sense (1776)
John Witherspoon | From “The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men” (1776)
The Declaration of Independence (1776)
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur | From Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
George Evans | “The Working Men’s Party Declaration of Independence” (1829)
“Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments” (1848)
Henry David Thoreau | From “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849)
John Brown | From “Provisional Constitution” (1858)
Daniel De Leon | From “Declaration of Interdependence by the Socialist Labor Party” (1895)
2. Unvanishing the Indian: Native American Rights
Tecumseh | Speech to Governor William Harrison at Vincennes (1810)
William Apess | “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” (1833)
Lydia Sigourney | “Indian Names” (1834)
Charles Eastman | From From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916)
Black Elk and John G. Neihardt | From Black Elk Speaks (1932)
Dee Brown | From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
Birgil Kills Straight and Richard LaCourse | “What Is the American Indian Movement?” (1973)
Roland Winkler | “American Indians and Vietnamese” (1973)
Mary Crow Dog | From Lakota Woman (1990)
Sherman Alexie | “The Exaggeration of Despair” (1996)
3. Little Books That Started a Big War: Abolition and Antislavery
David Walker | From Appeal to the Coloured Citizens (1829)
Harriet Beecher Stowe | From Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Frederick Douglass | From “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” (1852)
John Brown | Prison Letters (1859)
Harriet Jacobs | From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution (1863, 1865–1870)
Ralph Chaplin | “Solidarity Forever” (1915)
James Baldwin | From “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (1949)
Stanley Kramer | From The Defiant Ones (1958)
Kevin Bales | From Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999)
4. This Land is Herland: Women’s Rights and Suffragism
Wendell Phillips | From “Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?” (1851)
Lydia Maria Child | From “Women and Suffrage” (1867)
National Woman Suffrage Association | From “Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States” (1876)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | From “Solitude of Self” (1892)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892)
Mary Church Terrell | “Frederick Douglass” (1908)
Jane Addams | From “Why Women Should Vote” (1910)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | From Herland (1915)
Nineteenth Amendment and Equal Rights Amendments (1920, 1923, 1943)
Crystal Eastman | “Now We Can Begin” (1920)
5. Capitalism’s Discontents: Socialism and Industry
Rebecca Harding Davis | From Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
Edward Bellamy | From Looking Backward, 2000–1887 (1888)
Jacob Riis | From How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Upton Sinclair | From The Jungle (1906)
Lewis Hine | “Sadie Pfeifer” and “Making Human Junk” (1908, 1915)
Ignatius Donnelly | From “The People’s Party Platform” (1892)
From Food and Drugs Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Eugene V. Debs | Statement to the Court (1918)
William (Big Bill) Haywood | “Farewell, Capitalist America!” (1929)
Barbara Ehrenreich | From Nickel and Dimed (2001)
6. Strange Fruit: Against Lynching
Ida B.Wells | From Southern Horrors (1892)
W. E. B. Du Bois | “Jesus Christ in Texas” (1920)
Claude McKay | “The Lynching” (1920)
Richard Wright | From “Big Boy Leaves Home” (1936)
Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday | “Strange Fruit” (1937, 1939)
League of Struggle for Negro Rights | “Bill for Negro Rights and the Suppression of Lynching” (1934)
Helen Gahagan Douglas | “Federal Law Is Imperative” (1947)
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee | “Take a Stand against the Klan” (1980)
Michael Slate | From “AmeriKKKa 1998: The Lynching of James Byrd” (1998)
“The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930” (2000)
7. Dust Tracks on the Road: The Great Depression
Dorothea Lange | “Migrant Mother” (1936)
Arthur Rothstein | “Farmer and Sons” (1936)
John Steinbeck | From The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Walker Evans | Hale County, Alabama (1936)
James Agee | From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Woody Guthrie | “Tom Joad” (1940)
Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam | From 12 Million Black Voices (1941)
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes | From The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)
Michael Harrington | From The Other America (1962)
Malik | “Poverty Is a Crime” (1972)
8. The Dungeon Shook: Civil Rights and Black Liberation
Robert Granat | “Montgomery: Reflections of a Loving Alien” (1956)
James Baldwin | “My Dungeon Shook” (1962)
Martin Luther King, Jr. | From “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (1963)
Marion Trikosko, “Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.” (1963)
Malcolm X | From “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964)
John F. Kennedy | “On Civil Rights” (1963)
Lyndon B. Johnson | From “The American Promise” (1965)
Amiri Baraka | “Black Art” (1966)
Tupac Shakur | “Panther Power” (1989)
New Black Panther Party | “Ten Point Program” (2001)
9. A Problem That Had No Name: Second-wave Feminism
Tillie Olsen | “I Stand Here Ironing” (1956)
Betty Friedan | From The Feminine Mystique (1963)
National Organization for Women | “Statement of Purpose” (1966)
Renee Ferguson | “Women’s Liberation Has a Different Meaning for Blacks” (1970)
Shirley Chisholm | “For the Equal Rights Amendment” (1970)
Gerda Lerner | Letter to Betty Friedan (1963)
Audre Lorde | “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1977)
June Jordan | “The Female and the Silence of a Man” (1989)
Katie Roiphe | From The Morning After (1993)
Ana Castillo | “Women Don’t Riot” (1998)
10. The Word is Out: Gay Liberation
Allen Ginsberg | From “Howl” (1956)
Stonewall Documents (1969–1970)
Carl Wittman | From “Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto” (1969)
Huey P. Newton | “The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements” (1970)
Doric Wilson | From Street Theater (1982)
ACT UP | “Read My Lips” (1988); Bill T. Jones | Still/Here (1994)
Tony Kushner | From Angels in America (1990, 1991)
Lesbian Avengers | “Dyke Manifesto” (1993)
Leslie Feinberg | From Stone Butch Blues (1993)
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003)
11. From Saigon to Baghdad: the Vietnam War and Beyond
Country Joe and the Fish | “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag” (1965)
Denise Levertov | “Advent 1966” (1966)
Norman Mailer | From Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967)
Eddie Adams | “Saigon” (1968); Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut | “Napalm” (1972)
Michael Herr | From Dispatches (1967–1969, 1977)
John Balaban | “April 30, 1975” (1975)
Tim O’Brien | From “How to Tell a TrueWar Story” (1987)
Poets against the War
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | “Speak Out” (2003)
Jim Harrison | “Poem ofWar” (2003)
Robert Pinsky | “Poem of Disconnected Parts” (2005)
Clinton Fein | “WhoWould Jesus Torture?” (2004)
Ron Kovic | From Born on the Fourth of July (1976, 2005)
Afterword by Howard Zinn
Sources
Acknowledgments
Index