An edition of American protest literature
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American Protest Literature
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“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 American literature that holds the nation to its highest ideals, castigating it when it falls short and pointing the way to a better collective future.
American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. Each section reprints documents from the original phase of the movement as well as evidence of its legacy in later times. Informative headnotes place the selections in historical context and draw connections with other writings within the anthology and beyond. Sources include a wide variety of genres—pamphlets, letters, speeches, sermons, legal documents, poems, short stories, photographs, posters—and a range of voices from prophetic to outraged to sorrowful, from U.S. Presidents to the disenfranchised. Together they provide an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.
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Table of Contents
Foreword by John Stauffer.
Page xi
Introduction.
Page xix
1. DECLARING INDEPENDENCE.
The American Revolution
THE LITERATURE
Philip Freneau I.
"A Political Litany" (1775)
Page 3
Thomas Paine.
From Common Sense (1776)
Page 5
John Witherspoon.
From "The Dominion of Providence over the Passions of Men" (1776)
Page 10
The Declaration of Independence (1776).
Page 15
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur.
From Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
Page 19
THE LEGACY
George Evans.
"The Working Men's Party Declaration of Independence" (1829)
Page 24
"Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments" (1848).
Page 27
Henry David Thoreau.
From "Resistance to Civil Government" (1849)
Page 31
John Brown.
From "Provisional Constitution" (1858)
Page 36
Daniel De Leon.
From "Declaration of Interdependence by the Socialist Labor Party" (1895)
Page 38
2. UNVANISHING THE INDIAN.
Native American Rights
THE LITERATURE
Tecumseh.
Speech to Governor William Harrison at Vincennes (1810)
Page 45
William Apess.
"An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man" (1833)
Page 48
Lydia Sigourney.
"Indian Names" (1834)
Page 55
Charles Eastman.
From From the Deep Woods to Civilization (1916)
Page 57
Black Elk and John G. Neihardt.
From Black Elk Speaks (1932)
Page 61
THE LEGACY
Dee Brown.
From Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970)
Page 65
Birgil Kills Straight and Richard LaCourse.
"What Is the American Indian Movement?" (1973)
Page 68
Roland Winkler.
"American Indians and Vietnamese" (1973)
Page 70
Mary Crow Dog.
From Lakota Woman (1990)
Page 72
Sherman Alexie.
"The Exaggeration of Despair" (1996)
Page 75
3. LITTLE BOOKS THAT STARTED A BIG WAR.
Abolition and Antislavery
THE LITERATURE
David Walker.
From Appeal to the Coloured Citizens (1829)
Page 79
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
From Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Page 85
Frederick Douglass.
From "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" (1852)
Page 92
John Brown.
Prison Letters (1859)
Page 99
Harriet Jacobs.
From Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
Page 106
THE LEGACY
The Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution (1863, 1865-1870).
Page 112
Ralph Chaplin.
"Solidarity Forever" (1915)
Page 116
James Baldwin.
From "Everybody's Protest Novel" (1949)
Page 118
Stanley Kramer.
From The Defiant Ones (1958)
Page 122
Kevin Bales.
From Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (1999)
Page 124
4. THIS LAND IS HERLAND.
Women's Rights and Suffragism
THE LITERATURE
Wendell Phillips.
From "Shall Women Have the Right to Vote?" (1851)
Page 133
Lydia Maria Child.
From "Women and Suffrage" (1867)
Page 139
National Woman Suffrage Association.
From "Declaration and Protest of the Women of the United States" (1876)
Page 144
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
From "Solitude of Self" (1892)
Page 149
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)
Page 155
THE LEGACY
Mary Church Terrell.
"Frederick Douglass" (1908)
Page 170
Jane Addams.
From "Why Women Should Vote" (1910)
Page 175
Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
From Herland (1915)
Page 181
Nineteenth Amendment and Equal Rights Amendments (1920, 1923, 1943).
Page 185
Crystal Eastman.
"Now We Can Begin" (1920)
Page 187
5. CAPITALISM'S DISCONTENTS.
Socialism and Industry
THE LITERATURE
Rebecca Harding Davis.
From Life in the Iron Mills (1861)
Page 195
Edward Bellamy.
From Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888)
Page 204
Jacob Riis.
From How the Other Half Lives (1890)
Page 211
Upton Sinclair.
From The Jungle (1906)
Page 216
Lewis Hine.
"Sadie Pfeifer" and "Making Human Junk" (1908, 1915)
Page 222
THE LEGACY
Ignatius Donnelly.
From "The People's Party Platform" (1892)
Page 225
From Food and Drugs Act and Meat Inspection Act (1906).
Page 229
Eugene V. Debs.
Statement to the Court (1918)
Page 232
William (Big Bill) Haywood.
"Farewell, Capitalist America!" (1929)
Page 237
Barbara Ehrenreich.
From Nickel and Dimed (2001)
Page 240
6. STRANGE FRUIT.
Against Lynching
THE LITERATURE
Ida B. Wells.
From Southern Horrors (1892)
Page 247
W.E.B. Du Bois.
"Jesus Christ in Texas" (1920)
Page 256
Claude McKay.
"The Lynching" (1920)
Page 264
Richard Wright.
From "Big Boy Leaves Home" (1936)
Page 266
Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday.
"Strange Fruit" (1937, 1939)
Page 274
THE LEGACY
League of Struggle for Negro Rights.
"Bill for Negro Rights and the Suppression of Lynching" (1934)
Page 276
Helen Gahagan Douglas.
"Federal Law Is Imperative" (1947)
Page 279
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee.
"Take a Stand against the Klan" (1980)
Page 281
Michael Slate.
From "AmeriKKKa 1998: The Lynching of James Byrd" (1998)
Page 286
"The Lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, 1930" (2000).
Page 289
7. DUST TRACKS ON THE ROAD.
The Great Depression
THE LITERATURE
Dorothea Lange.
"Migrant Mother" (1936)
Page 293
Arthur Rothstein.
"Farmer and Sons" (1936)
Page 295
John Steinbeck.
From The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Page 297
Walker Evans.
Hale County, Alabama (1936, 1941)
Page 303
James Agee.
From Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
Page 306
THE LEGACY
Woody Guthrie.
"Tom Joad" (1940)
Page 316
Richard Wright and Edwin Rosskam.
From 12 Million Black Voices (1941)
Page 320
Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes.
From The Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955)
Page 326
Michael Harrington.
From The Other America (1962)
Page 328
Malik.
"Poverty Is a Crime" (1972)
Page 332
8. THE DUNGEON SHOOK.
Civil Rights and Black Liberation
THE LITERATURE
Robert Granat.
"Montgomery: Reflections of a Loving Alien" (1956)
Page 337
James Baldwin.
"My Dungeon Shook" (1962)
Page 342
Martin Luther King, Jr.
From "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Page 346
Marion Trikosko, "Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C." (1963).
Page 354
Malcolm X.
From "The Ballot or the Bullet" (1964)
Page 356
THE LEGACY
John F. Kennedy.
"On Civil Rights" (1963)
Page 364
Lyndon B. Johnson.
From "The American Promise" (1965)
Page 369
Amiri Baraka.
"Black Art" (1966)
Page 375
Tupac Shakur.
"Panther Power" (1989)
Page 378
New Black Panther Party.
"Ten Point Program" (2001)
Page 381
9. A PROBLEM THAT HAD NO NAME.
Second-Wave Feminism
THE LITERATURE
Tillie Olsen.
"I Stand Here Ironing" (1956)
Page 387
Betty Friedan.
From The Feminine Mystique (1963)
Page 394
National Organization for Women.
"Statement of Purpose" (1966)
Page 400
Renee Ferguson.
"Women's Liberation Has a Different Meaning for Blacks" (1970)
Page 406
Shirley Chisholm.
"For the Equal Rights Amendment" (1970)
Page 411
THE LEGACY
Gerda Lerner.
Letter to Betty Friedan (1963)
Page 416
Audre Lorde.
"Poetry Is Not a Luxury" (1977)
Page 418
June Jordan.
"The Female and the Silence of a Man" (1989)
Page 422
Katie Roiphe.
From The Morning After (1993)
Page 424
Ana Castillo.
"Women Don't Riot" (1998)
Page 430
10. THE WORD IS OUT.
Gay Liberation
THE LITERATURE
Allen Ginsberg.
From "Howl" (1956)
Page 435
Stonewall Documents (1969-1970).
Page 438
Carl Wittman.
From "Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto" (1969)
Page 444
Huey P. Newton.
"The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements" (1970)
Page 451
Doric Wilson.
From Street Theater (1982)
Page 454
THE LEGACY
ACT UP.
"Read My Lips" (1988)
Page 458
Bill T. Jones.
Still/Here (1994)
Page 458
Tony Kushner.
From Angels in America (1990, 1991)
Page 460
Lesbian Avengers.
"Dyke Manifesto" (1993)
Page 467
Leslie Feinberg.
From Stone Butch Blues (1993)
Page 471
Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003).
Page 476
11. FROM SAIGON TO BAGHDAD.
The Vietnam War and Beyond
THE LITERATURE
Country Joe and the Fish.
"I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag" (1965)
Page 481
Denise Levertov.
"Advent 1966" (1966)
Page 484
Norman Mailer.
From Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967)
Page 486
Eddie Adams.
"Saigon" (1968)
Page 489
Nick (Huynh Cong) Ut.
"Napalm" (1972)
Page 489
Michael Herr.
From Dispatches (1967-1969, 1977)
Page 491
THE LEGACY
John Balaban.
"April 30, 1975" (1975)
Page 496
Tim O'Brien.
From "How to Tell a True War Story" (1987)
Page 498
Poets against the War.
Page 502
Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
"Speak Out" (2003)
Page 503
Jim Harrison.
"Poem of War" (2003)
Page 504
Robert Pinsky.
"Poem of Disconnected Parts" (2005)
Page 505
Clinton Fein.
"Who Would Jesus Torture?" (2004)
Page 507
Ron Kovic.
From Born on the Fourth of July (1976, 2005)
Page 510
Afterword by Howard Zinn.
Page 515
Sources.
Page 519
Acknowledgments.
Page 529
Index.
Page 531
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