Bibliograph

Dissent in America, the voices that shaped a nation, [edited by] Ralph F. Young

Type

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Dissent in America, the voices that shaped a nation, [edited by] Ralph F. Young

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dissent in America

Oclc number

69027705

Responsibility statement

[edited by] Ralph F. Young

Sub title

the voices that shaped a nation

Summary

This book is an anthology that includes over 150 original songs, speeches, and letters spanning 400 years of dissent in America. These firsthand accounts by many who protested against the status quo include the work of Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams, Powhatan, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, Tecumseh, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, African American soldiers of the Union Army, Susan B. anthony, Chief Joseph, Jane Addams, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, William Jennings Bryan, Mother Jones, John Muir, Socialist Party, Marcus Garvey, H.L. Mecken, Langston Hughes, Huey Long, Woody Guthrie, Henry Miller, Paul Robeson, Allen Ginsberg, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Stokley Carmichael, Betty Friedan, Bob Dylan, Timothy Leary, Abbie Hoffman, César Chávez, Theodore Kaczynski, Ralph Nader, Veterans Against the Iraq War, Cindy Sheehan, etc

Table Of Contents

Pre-revolutionary roots, 1607-1760 -- Revolution and the birth of a nation, 1760-1820 -- Questioning the nation, 1820-1860 -- Civil War and reconstruction, 1860-1877 -- Industry and reform, 1877-1912 -- Conflict and depression, 1912-1945 -- The affluent society, 1945-1966 -- Mobilization: Vietnam and the counterculture, 1964-1975 -- Contemporary dissent, 1975-present

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