Title:
Readings from Voices of a people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove [videorecording] / executive producers, Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ; producer, Brian Drolet.
Author:
Goodman, Amy, 1957-
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.
Arnove, Anthony, 1969-
Taylor, Lili.
Sayles, John, 1950-
Shawn, Wallace.
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010. Voices of a people's history of the United States. Selections.
Publication Information:
[New York] : AK Press, 2005.
Call Number:
E183 .R433 2005
Abstract:
"On October 22, 2004, Howard Zinn was honored by the New York Society for Ethical Culture. Friends and supporters came to hear readings from Zinn's Voices of a People's history of the United States, the companion book to A people's history of the United States, which collects first hand accounts of U.S. history from the perspectives of common people and political activists. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman hosted an evening of readings by actors, activists, and authors ..."--Container.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Event recorded Oct. 22, 2004 at The New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.
Contents:
The devastation of the Indies: A brief account (1542) / Bartolome de Las Casas -- Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) / Tecumseh -- Characteristics of the early factory girls (1898) / Harriet Hanson Robinson -- The meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (July 5, 1852) / Frederick Douglass -- The class that suffer (February 17, 1865) / Columbus Sun -- On the eligibility of colored members to seats in the Georgia legislature (September 3, 1868) / Henry McNeal Turner -- Susan B. Anthony addresses Judge Ward Hunt in "The United States of America vs. Susan B. Anthony" (June 19, 1873) -- Comments on the Moro Massacre (March 12, 1906) / Samuel Clemens -- Patriotism: A menace to liberty (1908) / Emma Goldman -- The Canton, Ohio Speech (June 16, 1918) / Eugene Debs -- I sing of Olaf glad and big (1931) / e. e. cummings -- You have to fight for freedom (1973) / Silvia Woods -- Ballad of Roosevelt (1934) / Langston Hughes -- Then came the war (1991) / Yuri Kochiyama -- Unread statement before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (June 12, 1956) / Paul Robeson -- Petition Against the War in Vietnam (July 28, 1965) / McComb Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party -- The problem is civil disobedience (May 1970) / Howard Zinn -- Original text of speech to be delivered at the Lincoln Memorial (August 28, 1963) / John Lewis -- Coming of age in Mississippi (1968) / Anne Moody -- Why we fight (1988) / Vito Russo -- Not in our son's name (September 15, 2001) / Orlando Rodriguez and Phyllis Rodriguez.
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