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This concise collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagreed 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 themes they wish to emphasize.
Contents
Preface What Is Dissent?PART ONE Pre-Revolutionary Roots, 1607-1760Introduction: The Long Roots of Modern Dissent Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, 1644 Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643) The Trial of Anne Hutchinson, 1637 Alice Tilly (1594-c. 1660) Petition for the Release of Alice Tilly, 1649 Mary Dyer (c. 1611-1660) Mary Dyer's First Letter Written From Prison, 1659 Nathaniel Bacon (1647-1676) Declaration in the Name of the People, July 30, 1676 Quaker Antislavery Petition A Minute Against Slavery, 1688 Letter from an Anonymous Slave Releese Us Out of This Cruell Bondegg, 1723 Native American Voices (1609-1752) Powhatan, Speech to John Smith, 1609 Garangula, Speech to Governor La Barre of NewFrance, 1684 Loron Sauguaarum, Negotiations for the Casco Bay Treaty, 1727 Mashpee, Petition to the Massachusetts General Court, 1752 John Peter Zenger (1697-1746) The New York Weekly Journal, 1733 Eighteenth-Century Runaway Women Advertisements from the PennsylvaniaGazette, 1742-1748PART TWO Revolution and the Birth of a Nation, 1760-1820Introduction: The Republic Takes Shape John Woolman (1720-1772) "Considerations on Keeping Negroes, Part Second," 1762 John Killbuck (1737-1811) Speech to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia,December 4, 1771 Samuel Adams (1722-1803) The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772 Revolutionary Women Hannah Griffiths, Poem, 1768 Ladies of Edenton, North Carolina, Agreement, 1774-1775Thomas Paine (1737-1809) Common Sense, 1776 Abigail Adams (1744-1818) and John Adams (1735-1826) Letters, 1776 Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780) A Loyalist Critique of the Declaration of Independence,1776 Slave Petition Petition for Gradual Emancipation, 1777 United Indian Nations Protest to the United States Congress, 1786 Shays's Rebellion, 1786-1787 Statement of Grievances, 1786 George Mason (1725-1792) Objections to This Constitution of Government, 1787 Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) "On the Equality of the Sexes," 1790 Shawnee, Miami, Ottawa, and Seneca Proposal Proposal to Maintain Indian Lands, 1793 Protest Against the Alien and Sedition Acts The Virginia Resolutions, 1798 Tecumseh (1768-1813) Letter to Governor William Henry Harrison, 1810 Speech to the Southern Tribes, 1811 Congressmen Protest the War of 1812 Federalist Protest, 1812 Free Blacks of Philadelphia Protest Against Colonization Policy, 1817 PART THREE Questioning the Nation, 1820-1860 Introduction: The Reforming Impulse Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787-1862) Speech Protesting the Indian Removal Bill, April 9, 1830 Cherokee Chief John Ross (1790-1866) Letter Protesting the Treaty of New Echota, 1836 David Walker (1785-1830) Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1830 William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) The Liberator, Vol. I, No. I, January 1, 1831 William Apess (1798-1839) "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man," 1833 Laborers of Boston Ten-Hour Circular, 1835 Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) and Sarah Grimke (1792-1873) Appeal to the Christian Women of the South, 1836 "The Original Equality of Woman," 1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) "Self-Reliance," 1841 Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Woman in the Nineteenth Century, Part 3, 1844 LowellMills Girls Lowell Female Industrial Reform and Mutual Aid Society, 1847 ElizabethCady Stanton (1815-1902) Speech at Seneca Falls, July 19, 1848 Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) Ain't I A Woman?, 1851 Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?, July 5, 1852 Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "On Resistance to Civil Government," 1849 Lucy Stone (1818-1893) Statement on Marriage, 1855 The Know-Nothings American Party Platform, Philadelphia, February 21, 1856 John Brown (1800-1859) Address to the Virginia Court at Charles Town, Virginia,November 2, 1859 PART FOUR Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877 Introduction: A Divided Nation Clement L. Vallandigham (1820-1871) Response to Lincoln's Address to Congress, July 10, 1861 William Brownlow (1805-1877) Knoxville Whig Antisecession Editorial, May 25, 1861 The Arkansas Peace Society Arkansas Peace Society Documents, 1861 Joseph E. Brown (1821-1894) Message to the Legislature, March 10, 1864 Cyrus Pringle (1838-1911) The Record of a Quaker Conscience, 1863 African American Soldiers of the Union Army Correspondence Protesting Unequal Pay, 1863-1864Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) What the Black Man Wants, April 1865 ZionPresbyterian Church Petition to the United States Congress, November 24,1865 American Equal Rights Association National Convention Resolutions, New York, May 1867 Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) From an Account of the Trial of Susan B. Anthony,July 3, 1873 Is It a Crime for a U.S. Citizen to Vote?, 1873 PART FIVE 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 Mary Elizabeth Lease (1850-1933) Speech to the WCTU, 1890 The People's 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 Woman's Christian TemperanceUnion, 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 Mother Jones (1830-1930) "The March of the Mill Children," 1903 John Muir (1838-1914) "The Hetch Hetchy Valley," January 1908 Emma Goldman (1869-1940) "Marriage and Love," 1911 Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) Christianizing the Social Order, 1912 The Socialist Party Socialist Party Platform, May 12, 1912 PART SIX Conflict and Depression, 1912-1945 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) Defense of Free Speech, October 6, 1917 Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) Antiwar Speech, Canton, Ohio, June 1918 RandolphBourne (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 Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) "The Goal," 1920 H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) "Last Words," 1926 "Mencken's Creed" Father Charles 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 Woody Guthrie (1912-1967) "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd," 1939 "Jesus Christ," 1940 J. Saunders Redding (1906-1988) and Charles F. Wilson (Unknown) J. Saunders Redding, "A Negro Looks at This War," 1942 Charles F. Wilson, Letter to President Roosevelt, 1944 David Dellinger (1915-2004) 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 Resistance Statement upon Sentencing, 1942 Letters from Jail to His Sister Yuka Yasui, 19421943 PART SEVEN The Affluent Society, 1945-1966 Introduction: The Crack in the Picture Window John Howard Lawson (1894-1977) Lawson's Statement That Was Excluded from the PublicRecord, 1947 Margaret Chase Smith (1897-1995) Declaration of Conscience, 1950 Paul Robeson (1898-1976) Testimony Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities,June 12, 1956 Harry Hay (1912-2002) Speech at the 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 Jail," 1963 Carver Neblett, "If You Miss Me at the Back of the Bus," 1960 Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) Testimony Before the Credentials Committee of the DemocraticNational Convention, 1964 Malcolm X (1925-1965) The Black Revolution, 1964 Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) Berkeley Speech, October 1966 The Black Panther Party Black Panther Party Platform, 1966 Students for a Democratic Society The Port Huron Statement, 1962 Protest Music I Phil Ochs, "I Ain't Marching Anymore," 1965 Malvina Reynolds, "Little Boxes," 1962 Bob Dylan, "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," 1965 PART EIGHT 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, DC,November 27, 1965 The Weather Underground You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Waythe 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 Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) Introduction, Steal This Book, 1970 Protest Music II Pete Seeger, "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy," 1967 Country Joe McDonald, "I Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-DieRag," 1965 John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Fortunate Son," 1969 Redstockings The Redstockings Manifesto, 1969 S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) S.C.U.M. Manifesto, 1968 Gloria Steinem (1934- ) "'Women's Liberation' Aims to Free Men, Too," June 7, 1970 Stonewall Stonewall Documents, 1969 The American Indian Movement A Proclamation: To the Great White Father and All His People, 1969 PART NINE Contemporary Dissent, 1975-Present Introduction: Crossing the Threshold into the New Millennium-Globalization vs. Jihad Paul Weyrich (1941- ) "A Conservative's Lament: After Iran, We Need to ChangeOur System and Grand Strategy," March 8, 1987 ACT UP Vito Russo, "Why We Fight," 1988 Gay Liberation Statement of Phill Wilson, Director of Public Policy, AIDS Project,Los Angeles, 1994 Statement of Letitia Gomez, Executive Director, Latino/a Lesbianand Gay Organization, 1994 The Michigan Militia In Defense of Liberty II, 1995 Theodore Kaczynski (1942- ) The Unabomber Manifesto, 1996 Interview with Theodore Kaczynski, June 1999 Ralph Nader (1934- ) It's Time to End Corporate Welfare As We Know It, 1996 Ani DiFranco (1970- ) "self evident," 2001 Protest Music III Mos Def, "New World Water," 1999 Immortal Technique, "The 4th Branch," 2003 Steve Earle, "Rich Man's War," 2004 Amnesty International Amnesty International's Concerns Regarding Post-September 11Detentions in the U.S.A., March 14, 2002 Earth Liberation Front Written Testimony Supplied to the U.S. House of Representativesfor the February 12, 2002,Hearing on "Ecoterrorism" Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience, 2003 Veterans Against the Iraq War Call to Conscience from Veterans to Active Duty Troopsand Reservists, 2003 Message to the Troops: Resist!, October 11, 2002 The American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Under Fire: Dissent in Post-9/11 America,May 2003 MoveOn.org The Many Faces of the Media, 2004 Michael Berg (1945- ) "George Bush Never Looked Into Nick's Eyes," May 21, 2004 Cindy Sheehan (1957- ) A Lie of Historic Proportions, August 8, 2005 Carly's Poem-A Nation Rocked to Sleep, August 15, 2005 Author's Note Acknowledgments About the Documents Text Credits Index
