Subtitle: Some Famous, Some Little Known - Dramatic Readings Celebrating The Enduring Spirit Of Dissent
Author: Zinn, Howard (Editor)
Year: 2005
ISBN: 0060578262
Pages: 96
Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher's city: London
Publication date:
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The People Speak: American Voices,
€10.20
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; Hellen 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.
