Introduction, Amy Goodman ; with readers Howard Zinn, Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson, Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles, Leslie Silva, Wallace Shawn, and Anthony Arnove. October 22, 2004 New York City ; filmed at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. Special features: Production notes [credits, text feature]; About AK Press [text feature].
Contents:
Not in our son's name (September 15, 2001) / Orlando Rodriguez and Phyllis Rodriguez. Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12) / Tecumseh -- Characteristics of the early factory girls (1898) / Harriet Hanson Robinson -- Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro (July 5, 1852) / Frederick Douglass -- 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) / Mark Twain -- Patriotism: A menace to liberty (1908) / Emma Goldman -- 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 -- 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.
Summary:
Historian Howard Zinn and writer Anthony Arnove are joined by artists and actors to present dramatic readings of selections from their book, Voices of a People's History of the United States, published by Seven Stories Press.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.