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We are the people : voices from the other side of American history / edited by Nathaniel May & Clint Willis ; introduction by James W. Loewen.

May, Nathaniel. (Added Author). Willis, Clint. (Added Author). Loewen, James W. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1560255056
  • ISBN: 9781560255055
  • Physical Description: xiii, 432 pages ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2003]
  • Distributor: [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-422) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Dispatch from Rafah, occupied Palestine / Rachel Corrie -- Legal disabilities of women / Sarah Moore Grimké -- Speech on women's rights / Susan B. Anthony -- Demanding full equality / Betty Friedan -- Do you know the facts about marriage? / the feminists -- Principles / New York radical women -- We do abortions here / Sallie Tisdale -- from Lies My Teacher Told Me / James W. Loewen -- The 1920 strike / Jeremy Brecher, Jerry Lombardi, and Jan Stackhouse -- from Hard Times / Studs Terkel -- Dearborn massacre.
from Let us now praise famous men / James Agee -- from Nickel and dimed / Barbara Ehrenreich -- How the other half still lives / Jack Newfield -- Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee -- Declaration of conscience / Margaret Chase Smith -- Sunday A16 / Starhawk -- Silencing of Gideon's trumpet / Anthony Lewis -- State of the Union / Charles P. Pierce.
from Nickel and dimed / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Can my mommy have her paycheck? / Katharine Mieszkowski -- Negro artist and the racial mountain / Langston Hughes -- Non-violence vs. Jim Crow / Bayard Rustin -- Adventures in dining / Langston Hughes -- Interview with Jo Ann Robinson from Eyes on the prize / Juan Williams -- from Coming of Age in Mississippi / Anne Moody -- View from the front of the bus / Marlene Nadle -- Prime time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- from Hard Times / Studs Terkel -- from The Harvest Gypsies / John Steinbeck.
from The life of Olaudah Equiano / Olaudah Equiano -- from The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave / William W. Brown -- from A July 4, 1852 speech / Frederick Douglass -- from Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington -- from Address to the Massachusetts Peace Society / William Ladd -- from The record of a Quaker conscience / Cyrus Pringle -- My country right or wrong / Mark Twain -- from The Great Divide / Studs Terkel -- from Peacework / Judith Porter Adams -- Senate speech / Robert C. Byrd.
Introduction / James W. Loewen -- from Address to President Monroe / Chief Sharitarish -- A California law for the government and protection of the Indians -- Sand Creek massacre / John S. Smith -- from An Indian's view of Indian affairs / Chief Joseph -- from Indeh : an Apache odyssey / Eve Ball, with Nora Henn and Lynda Sanchez -- from Back on the war ponies / John Wooden Legs -- from Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear -- from Whose history do we celebrate? / Charlene Teters -- Transcript from a class action suit against the U.S. Government.
Subject:
United States > History > Sources.
United States > Social conditions > Sources.
United States > Biography > Miscellanea.
Genre:
Biographies.
Trivia and miscellanea.

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