We are the people
Subtitle: voices from the other side of American history
By: edited by Nathaniel May & Clint Willis ; introduction by James W. Loewen.
Contributors: May, Nathaniel.; Willis, Clint.; Loewen, James W.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: United States -- History -- Sources; United States -- Social conditions -- Sources; United States -- Biography -- Miscellanea
Genres: Sources.; Biography; Miscellanea.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-422) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- James W. Loewen; title: from Address to President Monroe -- Chief Sharitarish; title: A California law for the government and protection of the Indians --; title: Sand Creek massacre -- John S. Smith; title: from An Indian's view of Indian affairs -- Chief Joseph; title: from Indeh : an Apache odyssey -- Eve Ball, with Nora Henn and Lynda Sanchez; title: from Back on the war ponies -- John Wooden Legs; title: from Land of the spotted eagle -- Luther Standing Bear; title: from Whose history do we celebrate? -- Charlene Teters; title: Transcript from a class action suit against the U.S. Government.; title: from The life of Olaudah Equiano -- Olaudah Equiano; title: from The narrative of William W. Brown, a fugitive slave -- William W. Brown; title: from A July 4, 1852 speech -- Frederick Douglass; title: from Up from slavery -- Booker T. Washington; title: from Address to the Massachusetts Peace Society -- William Ladd; title: from The record of a Quaker conscience -- Cyrus Pringle; title: My country right or wrong -- Mark Twain; title: from The Great Divide -- Studs Terkel; title: from Peacework -- Judith Porter Adams; title: Senate speech -- Robert C. Byrd.; title: Dispatch from Rafah, occupied Palestine -- Rachel Corrie; title: Legal disabilities of women -- Sarah Moore Grimké; title: Speech on women's rights -- Susan B. Anthony; title: Demanding full equality -- Betty Friedan; title: Do you know the facts about marriage? -- the feminists; title: Principles -- New York radical women; title: We do abortions here -- Sallie Tisdale; title: from Lies My Teacher Told Me -- James W. Loewen; title: The 1920 strike -- Jeremy Brecher, Jerry Lombardi, and Jan Stackhouse; title: from Hard Times -- Studs Terkel; title: Dearborn massacre.; title: from Nickel and dimed -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: Can my mommy have her paycheck? -- Katharine Mieszkowski; title: The Negro artist and the racial mountain -- Langston Hughes; title: Non-violence vs. Jim Crow -- Bayard Rustin; title: Adventures in dining -- Langston Hughes; title: Interview with Jo Ann Robinson from Eyes on the prize -- Juan Williams; title: from Coming of Age in Mississippi -- Anne Moody; title: The view from the front of the bus -- Marlene Nadle; title: Prime time -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; title: from Hard Times -- Studs Terkel; title: from The Harvest Gypsies -- John Steinbeck.; title: from Let us now praise famous men -- James Agee; title: from Nickel and dimed -- Barbara Ehrenreich; title: How the other half still lives -- Jack Newfield; title: Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee --; title: Declaration of conscience -- Margaret Chase Smith; title: Sunday A16 -- Starhawk; title: The silencing of Gideon's trumpet -- Anthony Lewis; title: State of the Union -- Charles P. Pierce.