Dissent & protest (1635-2017)

VOLUME 1 CONTENTS :

From Colonies to Nation :

Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson - Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland

The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

Boston Non-Importation Agreement

Samuel Adams Writing as Candidus

Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One

Boston Massacre Oration

"Liberty or Death" Speech

Common Sense

Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania ;

Slavery and Abolition :

A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting, Addressed to the Monthly Meeting in Dublin

An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina

Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court

Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade

An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice

Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention

Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject

"An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America"

"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup

Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States

A Voice from Harper's Ferry

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

"Under the Flag"

Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator ;

Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction :

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate

Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy

"Cornerstone Speech"

Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature

"All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights"

Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ;

Native American Dissent :

Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws

Memorial to Congress

Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony

Treaty of Fort Laramie

Dawes Severalty Act

Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts

Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation

Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

VOLUME 2 CONTENTS :

African-American Civil Rights :

Atlanta Exposition Address

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

"Lynching: Our National Crime"

"Agitation"

William Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson

"The Eruption of Tulsa"

"U.S. Department of (White) Justice"

"A Black Inventory of the New Deal"

Call to Negro America to March on Washington

An Appeal to the World

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose

Letter from Birmingham Jail

"I Have a Dream"

"Message to the Grass Roots"

"The Ballot or the Bullet"

What We Want

"Black Power"

"What We Want, What We Believe" ;

Women's Rights :

Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Lecture on Constitutional Equality

"Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?"

"The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future"

"Why Women Should Vote"

Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee

The SCUM Manifesto

Women's March on Washington ;

Political and Social Protest :

Ten Days in a Mad-House

How the Other Half Lives

"The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements"

Editorial on the Pullman Strike

"Liberty"

The "Cross of Gold" Speech

Speech Opposing the League of Nations

Auto Workers Strike

"Share Our Wealth" Address

Southern Manifesto

The Port Huron Statement

Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square

Steal This Book

Commonwealth Address ;

Anti-War Activism :

Speech against Conscription and War

Speech Opposing War with Germany

Antiwar Speech

"Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence"

Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War

"The Emperor Has No Clothes" Speech.