We the resistance documenting a history of nonviolent protest in the United States
While historical accounts of the United States typically focus on the nation's military past, a rich and vibrant counterpoint remains basically unknown to most Americans. This alternate story of the formation of our nation--and its character--is one in which courageous individuals and movements have...
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San Francisco, CA :
City Lights Books,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- One / Early roots of resistance
- Two / The abolitionist movement and the struggle for the rights of free African Americans
- Three / Removing Native Americans, dethroning Hawaiians
- Four / Striking against industrialists
- Five / Fighting for women's rights
- Six / World War I
- Seven / Workers' rights and the Great Depression
- Eight / World War II
- Nine / The civil rights movement
- Ten / The threat of atomic bombs and the Vietnam War
- Eleven / The movement expands
- Twelve / Environmental justice and animal liberation
- Thirteen / Anti-nukes, the Reagan years, anti-Gulf War
- Fourteen / LGBT rights, AIDS, and women's rights
- Fifteen / The anti-globalization movement
- Sixteen / The war on terror
- Seventeen / Emerging movements in the new century
- Eighteen / The Trump era begins.
