Waubonsee Community College

American protest literature, edited by Zoe Trodd ; foreword by John Stauffer ; afterword by Howard Zinn

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-527) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

American protest literature

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edited by Zoe Trodd ; foreword by John Stauffer ; afterword by Howard Zinn

The John Harvard library

Foreword / John Stauffer -- 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 independence 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 (1833) / 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 -- (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 Stowe -- (From) The meeting 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) -- 4. This land is herland : women's rights and suffragism -- 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) The jungle (1906) / Upton Sinclair -- Sadie Pfeifer, and Making human junk (1908, 1915) / Lewis Hine -- The legacy -- (From) The People's Party platform (1892) / Ignatius Donnelly -- (From) Food and Drugs Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906) -- Statement to the Court (1918) / 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 Byre (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 (1939) / John Steinbeck -- Hale County, Alabama (1936) / Walker Evans -- (From) Let us now praise famous men (1941) / James Agee -- The legacy -- Tom Joad (1940) / Woody Guthrie -- (From) 12 million Black votes (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 living 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 or 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) / Ne 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 -- The legacy -- Letter to Betty Friedan (1963) / Gerda Lerner -- Poetry is not a luxury (1977) / Audre Lorde -- the female and the silence of a man (1989) / June Jordan -- (From) The morning after (1993) / Katie Roiphe -- Women don't riot (1998) / Ana Castillo -- 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) -- 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