Voices of a people's history of the United States
(2014)

Nonfiction

eBook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Seven Stories Press, 2014
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1 online resource

ISBN/ISSN
9781609805937 (electronic bk.) MWT13331380, 1609805933 (electronic bk.) 13331380
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Selected testimonies to living history-speeches, letters, poems, songs-offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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