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Studies crucial documents from various protests, dissents, revolts, riots, and revolutions throughout American history, from the American Revolution to the Black Lives Matter Movement of today.

This text closely studies more than eighty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of issues so important to Americans that they took action, exercised their rights and stood up to protest.

Dissent and protest (1635-2017)

Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.

Defining documents in American history

VOLUME 1 : 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 / James Otis

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 / Benjamin Franklin

Boston Massacre Oration / John Hancock

Liberty or Death Speech / Patrick Henry

Common Sense / Thomas Paine

Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania / Albert Gallatin

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 / James Oglethorpe

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 / Richard Hall

Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World / David Walker

The Confessions of Nat Turner

Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention / William Lloyd Garrison

Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject / Lydia Marie Child

An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass

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

Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup

Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States / John Brown

A Voice from Harper's Ferry / Osborne P. Anderson

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl / Harriet Jacobs

Under the Flag / Wendell Phillips

Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator / William Lloyd Garrison

SECTIONAL CONFLICT, CIVIL WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION : South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification

Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act / Sam Houston

South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession

Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate / Jefferson Davis

Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy / Sam Houston

Cornerstone Speech / Alexander Stephens

Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature / Henry McNeal Turner

All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights / Richard Harvey Cain

Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government / Jefferson Davis

NATIVE AMERICAN DISSENT : Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws / Tecumseh

Memorial to Congress / John Ross

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 : AFRICAN-AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS : Atlanta Exposition Address / Booker T. Washington

Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles

Lynching: Our National Crime / Ida B. Wells

Agitation / W. E. B. Du Bois

William Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson

The Eruption of Tulsa / Walter F. White

U.S. Department of (White) Justice / Walter F. White

A Black Inventory of the New Deal / John P. Davis

Call to Negro America to March on Washington / A. Phillip Randolph

An Appeal to the World / W. E. B. Du Bois

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose

Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Message to the Grass Roots / Malcolm X

The Ballot or the Bullet / Malcolm X

What We Want / Stokely Carmichael

Black Power / Stokely Carmichael

What We Want, What We Believe / The Black Panther Party

WOMEN'S RIGHTS : Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments

Lecture on Constitutional Equality / Victoria Woodhull

Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote? / Susan B. Anthony

The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future / Susan B. Anthony

Why Women Should Vote / Jane Addams

Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee / Alice Paul

The SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas

Women's March on Washington / Angela Davis

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PROTEST : Ten Days in a Mad-House / Nelly Bly

How the Other Half Lives / Jacob Riis

The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements / Jane Addams

Editorial on the Pullman Strike / Samuel Gompers

Liberty / Eugene V. Debs

The Cross of Gold Speech / William Jennings Bryant

Speech Opposing the League of Nations / Henry Cabot Lodge

Auto Workers Strike / Walter Reuther

Share Our Wealth Address / Huey Long

Southern Manifesto

The Port Huron Statement / Tom Hayden

Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square / Lucien Truscott IV

Steal This Book / Abbie Hoffman

Commonwealth Address / César Chávez

ANTI-WAR ACTIVISM : Speech against Conscription and War / Emma Goldman

Speech Opposing War with Germany / Robert La Follette

Antiwar Speech / Eugene V. Debs

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War / John Kerry

The Emperor Has No Clothes Speech / Robert C. Byrd.

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