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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known - Dramatic Readings Celebrating The Enduring Spirit Of Dissent

Mother Jones (Contributor), Malcolm X (Contributor), Frederick Douglass (Contributor), Langston Hughes (Contributor), Emma Goldman (Contributor), and Howard Zinn (Editor)
Edition: pb
ISBN: 9780060578268
Publisher: Harper
Release Date: 2005-05-05
ITEM OVERVIEW
Short extracts from a plethora of folks, interwoven with commentary from Zinn: Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Langston Hughes; Eugene V. Debs; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.