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American Protest Literature
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  • American Protest Literature
  • Written by author Zoe Trodd
  • Published by Harvard University Press, April 2008
  • "I like a little rebellion now and then"—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to collect and examine an
  • “I like a little rebellion now and then”—so wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. This is the first anthology to colle
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Foreword   John Stauffer     xi
Introduction     xix
Declaring Independence: The American Revolution
The Literature
"A Political Litany" (1775)   Philip Freneau     3
From Common Sense (1776)   Thomas Paine     5
From "The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men" (1776)   John Witherspoon     10
The Declaration of Independence (1776)     15
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782)   J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur     19
The Legacy
"The Working Men's Party Declaration of Independence" (1829)   George Evans     24
"Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments" (1848)     27
From "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)   Henry David Thoreau     31
From "Provisional Constitution" (1858)   John Brown     36
From "Declaration of Interdependence by the Socialist Labor Party" (1895)   Daniel De Leon     38
Unvanishing the Indian: Native American Rights
The Literature
Speech to Governor William Harrison at Vincennes (1810)$dTecumseh     45
"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" (1833)   William Apess     48
"Indian Names" (1834)   Lydia Sigourney     55
From From the Deep Woods to Civilization(1916)   Charles Eastman     57
From Black Elk Speaks (1932)   Black Elk   John G. Neihardt     61
The Legacy
From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)   Dee Brown     65
"What Is the American Indian Movement?" (1973)   Birgil Kills Straight   Richard LaCourse     68
"American Indians and Vietnamese" (1973)   Roland Winkler     70
From Lakota Woman (1990)   Mary Crow Dog     72
"The Exaggeration of Despair" (1996)   Sherman Alexie     75
Little Books That Started a Big War: Abolition and Antislavery
The Literature
From Appeal to the Coloured Citizens (1829)   David Walker     79
From Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)   Harriet Beecher Stowe     85
From "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852)   Frederick Douglass     92
Prison Letters (1859)   John Brown     99
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)   Harriet Jacobs     106
The Legacy
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution (1863, 1865-1870)     112
"Solidarity Forever" (1915)   Ralph Chaplin     116
From "Everybody's Protest Novel" (1949)    James Baldwin     118
From The Defiant Ones (1958)   Stanley Kramer     122
From Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999)   Kevin Bales     124
This Land is Herland: Women's Rights and Suffragism
The Literature
From "Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?" (1851)   Wendell Phillips     133
From "Women and Suffrage" (1867)   Lydia Maria Child     139
From "Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States" (1876)$dNational Woman Suffrage Association     144
From "Solitude of Self" (1892)   Elizabeth Cady Stanton     149
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)   Charlotte Perkins Gilman     155
The Legacy
"Frederick Douglass" (1908)   Mary Church Terrell     170
From "Why Women Should Vote" (1910)   Jane Addams     175
From Herland (1915)   Charlotte Perkins Gilman     181
Nineteenth Amendment and Equal Rights Amendments (1920, 1923, 1943)     185
"Now We Can Begin" (1920)   Crystal Eastman     187
Capitalism's Discontents: Socialism and Industry
The Literature
From Life in the Iron Mills (1861)   Rebecca Harding Davis     195
From Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)   Edward Bellamy      204
From How the Other Half Lives (1890)   Jacob Riis     211
From The Jungle (1906)   Upton Sinclair     216
"Sadie Pfeifer" and "Making Human Junk" (1908, 1915)   Lewis Hine     222
The Legacy
From "The People's Party Platform" (1892)   Ignatius Donnelly     225
From Food and Drugs Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906)     229
Statement to the Court (1918)   Eugene V. Debs     232
"Farewell, Capitalist America!" (1929)   William (Big Bill) Haywood     237
From Nickel and Dimed (2001)   Barbara Ehrenreich     240
Strange Fruit: Against Lynching
The Literature
From Southern Horrors (1892)   Ida B. Wells     247
"Jesus Christ in Texas" (1920)   W. E. B. Du Bois     256
"The Lynching" (1920)   Claude McKay     264
From "Big Boy Leaves Home" (1936)   Richard Wright     266
"Strange Fruit" (1937, 1939)   Abel Meeropol   Billie Holiday     274
The Legacy
"Bill for Negro Rights and the Suppression of Lynching" (1934)$dLeague of Struggle for Negro Rights     276
"Federal Law Is Imperative" (1947)   Helen Gahagan Douglas     279
"Take a Stand against the Klan" (1980)$dThe John Brown Anti-Klan Committee     281
From "AmeriKKKa 1998: The Lynching of James Byrd" (1998)   Michael Slate     286
"The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930" (2000)     289
Dust Tracks on the Road: The Great Depression
The Literature
"Migrant Mother" (1936)   Dorothea Lange     293
"Farmer and Sons" (1936)   Arthur Rothstein     295
From The Grapes of Wrath (1939)   John Steinbeck     297
Hale County, Alabama (1936)   Walker Evans     303
From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)   James Agee     306
The Legacy
"Tom Joad" (1940)   Woody Guthrie     316
From 12 Million Black Voices (1941)   Richard Wright   Edwin Rosskam     320
From The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)   Roy DeCarava   Langston Hughes     326
From The Other America (1962)   Michael Harrington     328
"Poverty Is a Crime" (1972)   Malik     332
The Dungeon Shook: Civil Rights and Black Liberation
The Literature
"Montgomery: Reflections of a Loving Alien" (1956)   Robert Granat     337
"My Dungeon Shook" (1962)   James Baldwin     342
From "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)   Martin Luther King, Jr.     346
"Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C." (1963)   Marion Trikosko     354
From "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)   Malcolm X     356
The Legacy
"On Civil Rights" (1963)   John F. Kennedy     364
From "The American Promise" (1965)   Lyndon B. Johnson     369
"Black Art" (1966)   Amiri Baraka     375
"Panther Power" (1989)   Tupac Shakur     378
"Ten Point Program" (2001)$dNew Black Panther Party     381
A Problem That Had No Name: Second-Wave Feminism
The Literature
"I Stand Here Ironing" (1956)   Tillie Olsen     387
From The Feminine Mystique (1963)   Betty Friedan     394
"Statement of Purpose" (1966)$dNational Organization for Women     400
"Women's Liberation Has a Different Meaning for Blacks" (1970)   Renee Ferguson     406
"For the Equal Rights Amendment" (1970)   Shirley Chisholm     411
The Legacy
Letter to Betty Friedan (1963)   Gerda Lerner     416
"Poetry Is Not a Luxury" (1977)   Audre Lorde     418
"The Female and the Silence of a Man" (1989)   June Jordan     422
From The Morning After (1993)   Katie Roiphe     424
"Women Don't Riot" (1998)   Ana Castillo     430
The Word Is Out: Gay Liberation
The Literature
From "Howl" (1956)   Allen Ginsberg     435
Stonewall Documents (1969-1970)     438
From "Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto" (1969)   Carl Wittman     444
"The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements" (1970)   Huey P. Newton     451
From Street Theater (1982)   Doric Wilson     454
The Legacy
"Read My Lips" (1988); Still/Here (1994)   Bill T. Jones$dACT UP     458
From Angels in America (1990, 1991)   Tony Kushner     460
"Dyke Manifesto" (1993)   Lesbian Avengers     467
From Stone Butch Blues (1993)   Leslie Feinberg     471
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003)     476
From Saigon to Baghdad: The Vietnam War and Beyond
The Literature
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag" (1965)$dCountry Joe and the Fish     481
"Advent 1966" (1966)   Denise Levertov     484
From Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967)   Norman Mailer     486
"Saigon" (1968); "Napalm" (1972)   Eddie Adams   Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut      489
From Dispatches (1967-1969, 1977)   Michael Herr     491
The Legacy
"April 30, 1975" (1975)   John Balaban     496
From "How to Tell a True War Story" (1987)   Tim O'Brien     498
Poets against the War     502
"Speak Out" (2003)   Lawrence Ferlinghetti     503
"Poem of War" (2003)   Jim Harrison     504
"Poem of Disconnected Parts" (2005)   Robert Pinsky     505
"Who Would Jesus Torture?" (2004)   Clinton Fein     507
From Born on the Fourth of July (1976, 2005)   Ron Kovic     510
Afterword   Howard Zinn     515
Sources     519
Acknowledgments     529
Index     531


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