Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Howard Zinn
Language: English
Pages: 704
ISBN: 1609805925
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.
New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.
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won’t be elected. There you are. Each time you do that you are voting for a capitalistic bullet and you get it. I want you to know that this man [Samuel Milton] Jones who is running for mayor of your beautiful city is no relative of mine; no, sir. He belongs to that school of reformers who say capital and labor must join hands. He may be all right. He prays a good deal. But, I wonder if you would shake hands with me if I robbed you. He builds parks to make his workmen contented. But a contented
that he should do. And who is the backbone of the world? It’s the laborin man, it’s the laborin man. My God, the big man been on him with both foots all these years and now don’t want to get off him. I found out all of that because they tried to take I don’t know what all away from me. I’ve gotten along in this world by studyin the races and knowin that I was one of the underdogs. I was under many rulins, just like the other Negro, that I knowed was injurious to man and displeasin to God and
logic of jobs. We do not know this world, or what makes it move. In the South life was different; men spoke to you, cursed you, yelled at you, or killed you. The world moved by signs we knew. But here in the North cold forces hit you and push you. It is a world of things. Our defenseless eyes cloud with bewilderment when we learn that there are not enough houses for us to live in. And competing with us for shelter are thousands of poor migrant whites who have come up from the South, just as we
speech, given in San Francisco in 1984, Chávez describes the unfinished struggle of farm workers for justice. César Chávez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (November 9, 1984)2 Twenty-one years ago last September, on a lonely stretch of railroad track paralleling U.S. Highway 101 near Salinas, 32 Bracero farm workers lost their lives in a tragic accident. The Braceros had been imported from Mexico to work on California farms. They died when their bus, which was converted
made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them.… Is Jesse Helms who speaks of Cuban Liberty, as he urges our country to harm Cuba’s citizens, the same Jesse Helms who caused by grandparents, my parents and my own generation profound suffering as wee struggled against our enslavement under racist laws in the South? And can it be that you have joined your name to his, in signing this bill? Although this is fact, it strikes me as
