This collection of primary sources presents the story of U.S. History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights that they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagree with the government or majority opinion.   Each document is introduced by placing it in its historical context, and thought-provoking questions are provided to focus the student when s/he reads the text. Instructors are at liberty to choose the documents that best highlight a theme they wish to emphasize.

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PREFACE ABOUT THE AUTHOR INTRODUCTION I. Reconstruction 1865-1877. Introduction: Reuniting a Divided Nation. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), What the Black Man Wants, April 1865. Zion Presbyterian Church, South Carolina African Americans Petition to Congress, November 24 ,1865. American Equal Rights Association, National Convention Resolutions concerning the Fifteenth Amendment, May 1867. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) Account of Susan B. Anthonys Trial, July 3, 1873 Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote? 1873 Robert B. Elliott (1842-1884), Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, January 6, 1874. Web Resources for Part One. II. Industry and Reform 1877-1912. Introduction: Progress and Discontent. Terence Powderly (1849-1924) , Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, January 3 , 1878. Eight Hours, by I.G. Blanchard and Jesse Jones, 1880s Chief Joseph (1840-1904), Appeal to the Hayes Administration , 1879. Emmeline Wells (1828-1921), Is It Ignorance? 1883. Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850-1933), Speech to the WTCU , 1890. The Peoples Party, The Omaha Platform , July 1892. Jane Addams (1860-1935) , The Subjective Necessity of Social Settlements, 1892. Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) , Speech to the World's Womens Christian Temperance Union , 1893. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) , Cast Down Your Bucket Where you Are , 1895. W.E.B. DuBois (1868-1963) Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others, 1903. Address to the Niagara Conference, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1906 Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) Lynch Law in Georgia, June 20, 1899. Tortured and Burned Alive, 1899. Carl Schurz (1829-1906),   Address at the University of Chicago Denouncing U.S. Imperialism, January 4, 1899 . William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) , The Paralyzing Influence of Imperialism, July 1900. Mother (Mary Harris) Jones (1830-1930) , The March of the Mill Children, 1903. John Muir (1838-1914) The Hetch Hetchy Valley, January 1908 Save the Redwoods, January 1920. Emma Goldman, (1869-1940) Marriage and Love, 1911. Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) , Christianizing the Social Order, 1912. The Socialist Party, Socialisty Party Platform, May 12 , 1912. Web Resources for Part Two. III. Conflict and Depression 1913-1945 Introduction: Becoming a World Power. Joe Hill, (1879-1915) We Will Sing One Song; 1913 The Preacher and the Slave Girl, 1913. Robert M. LaFollette (1855-1925) Antiwar Speech, April 4, 1917. Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) , Antiwar Speech, Canton, Ohio, June 1918. Randolph Bourne (1886-1918), War is the Health of the State, 1918. A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979) , On Socialism, 1919. Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) , Speech to the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Philadelphia, 1919; Appeal to the Soul of White America, 1923. Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) , Legislating Womans Morals, 1920. The Goal, 1920 H.L. Mencken, (1880-1956) On Being an American,1922. Last Words, 1926. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) I, Too, Sing America, 1925  One-Way Ticket, 1949 Father Coughlin, (1891-1979) National Radio Address,   November 1934, National Radio Address, June 1936. Huey Long (1893-1935) Speech in the U.S. Senate, February 5, 1934 Radio Address, January 1935 Emma Goldman (1869-1940) The Individual, Society, and the State, 1936 . Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd   Jesus Christ   J. Saunders Redding and Charles F. Wilson J.Saunders Redding, The Meaning of World War Two for a Negro, 1942 Charles F. Wilson, Letter to President Roosevelt, 1944 David Dellinger (1915-) Why I Refused to Register in the October 1940 Draft and a Little of What It Led to Minoru Yasui (1916-1986) Reflections on Executive Order 9066 Statement Upon Sentencing, 1942 Letters from Jail to his Sister Yuka Yasui, 1942-1943 Henry Miller (1891-1980) Murder the Murderer, 1944 Web Resources for Part Three. IV. The Affluent Society, 1945-1966. Introduction: The Crack in the Picture Window. John Howard Lawson (1894-1977) Testimony Before the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1947 Lawsons Statement That Was Excluded from the Public Record, 1947 Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) Declaration of Conscience, 1950. Statement of the Seven Republican Senators, 1950 Paul Robeson, (1888-1976) Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 Harry Hay, (1912-2002) Speech at Gay Spirit Visions Conference, Highlands, North Carolina, November 1990 Allen Ginsberg, (1926-1997) America, 1956. Songs of the Civil Rights Movement Pete Seeger , I Ain't Scared of your Jails, 1963   Carver Neblett, Back of the Bus, 1960 Bob Dylan , Only a Pawn in Their Game, 1963 Martin Luther King, (1922-1968) Letter From Birmingham Jail, 1963. Fannie Lou Hamer, (1917-1977) Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention, 1964. Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Ballot and the Bullet, 1964 Stokeley Carmichael, (1941-1998) Berkeley Speech, October 1966 . Black Panther Party Black Panther Party Platform, 1966 Students for a Democratic Society, The Port Huron Statement, 1962. Betty Friedan (1921-) From The Feminine Mystique, 1963. Statement of Purpose, National Organization for Women 1966. Protest Music I Phil Ochs, I Aint Marchin Anymore 1965 Malvina Reynolds, Little Boxes, 1962 Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin, 1963 Bob Dylan, It's Alright Ma (Im Only Bleeding) 1965 Web Resources for Part Four. V. Mobilization: Vietnam and the Counterculture 1964-1975 Introduction: The Movement Mario Savio (1942-1996) Speech at the University of California at Berkeley, December 2, 1964 Carl Oglesby (1935-) Speech Denouncing the War in Vietnam, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1965. The Weathermen You Dont need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, 1969. John Kerry (1943-) Statement to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, April 23, 1971 Timothy Leary, (1920-1996) Using LSD to Imprint the Tibetan-Buddhist Experience, 1964 Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)   Political Preface, to Eros and Civilization, 1966. Abbie Hoffmann (1936-1989) Introduction to Steal This Book, 1970. Ram Dass, (Richard Alpert) (1931-) Be Here Now, 1971. Protest Music II: Pete Seeger, Waste Deep in the Big Muddy 1967 Country Joe McDonald, Feel-Like-Im-Fixin-to-Die Rag 1965 Buffy Sainte-Marie, My Country 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying 1965 John Fogerty , Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son Redstockings, The Redstockings Manifesto, 1968. S.C.U.M., S.C.U.M. Manifesto, 1968. Gloria Steinem, Women's Liberation Aims to Free Men, Too, June 7, 1970. Stonewall Stonewall Documents, 1969. Cesar Chavez (1927-1993) Interview with Cesar Chavez, Apostle of Non-Violence, May 1970. The American Indian Movement, A Proclamation to the Great White Father and all His people American Indian Movement 20 Point Proposal, October 1972, Minneapolis, Minnesota Web Resources for Part Five. VI. Contemporary Dissent 1975-present. Introduction: Crossing the Threshold into the New Millennium Globalization vs. Jihad. Edward Abbey, (1927-1989) Excerpt from Desert Solitaire, 1968 Paul Weyrich, (1941-) A Conservative's Lament: After Iran, We Need to Change Our System and Grand Strategy, March, 8 1987. Jeff Paterson (1968-) Interview with Jeff Paterson, January 2001 Anita Hill (1956-) Testimony at the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings, October 11 , 1991. Gay Liberation Statements to Congress, 1994 Statement of Ernest Dillon Statement of Daniel Miller Statement of Nancy McDonald Statement of Phil Wilson, Director of Public Policy, AIDS Project, Los Angeles Statement of Letitia Gomez, Exectutive Director, Latino/a Lesbian and Gay Organization The Michigan Militia, Statement of Purpose and Mission, 1995 In Defense of Liberty II, 1995 Theodore Kaczynski, (1942-) The Unabomber Manifesto, 1996. Interview with Ted Kaczynski, June 1999 Protest Music III: Rage Against the Machine, Know Your Enemy, 1992 Mos Def, Mathematics, 1999 Public Enemy, Son of a Bush 2002 Julia Butterfly Hill (1974-) Speech at Kent State, May 4, 2000. Ralph Nader, (1934-) Its Time to End Corporate Welfare As We Know It,1996 Green Party Platform, 2000. Global Exchange, Top 10 Reasons to Oppose the World Trade Organization, 2003. Ani DiFranco (1970-) s elf e vident, 2001. Amnesty International Amnesty Internationals Concerns Regarding Post-September 11 Detentions in the USA Earth Liberation Front Written Testimony Supplied to the U.S. House of Representatives for the February 12, 2002 Hearing on Ecotourism Press Release, September 3, 2002 Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience, 2003 Veterans Against the Iraq War, Call to Conscience from Veterans to Active Duty Troops and Reservists: Statement to the Troops , October 11, 2002 . Message to the Troops: Resist! October 11, 2002 Defending My Freedom, March 21, 2003 The American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America , 2003. Web Resources for Part Six.