Includes bibliographical references and index.

VOLUME 1 CONTENTS : -- From Colonies to Nation : -- Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson -- Declaration of Protestant Subjects in Maryland -- The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved -- Declaration of Rights of the Stamp Act Congress -- Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania -- Boston Non-Importation Agreement -- Samuel Adams Writing as Candidus -- Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One -- Boston Massacre Oration -- "Liberty or Death" Speech -- Common Sense -- Petition against the Excise Tax by Inhabitants of Western Pennsylvania ; -- Slavery and Abolition : -- A Minute against Slavery, From the Germantown Monthly Meeting, Addressed to the Monthly Meeting in Dublin -- An Account of the Negroe Insurrection in South Carolina -- Petition of Prince Hall and Other African Americans to the Massachusetts General Court -- Petition to the Assembly of Pennsylvania against the Slave Trade -- An Address to Those Who Keep Slaves, and Approve the Practice -- Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World -- The Confessions of Nat Turner -- Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention -- Prejudices against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject -- "An Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" -- "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" -- The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States, Politically Considered -- Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup -- Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States -- A Voice from Harper's Ferry -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- "Under the Flag" -- Valedictory Editorial of the Liberator ; -- Sectional Conflict, Civil War, and Reconstruction : -- South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification -- Speech Opposing the Kansas-Nebraska Act -- South Carolina Declaration of Causes of Secession -- Farewell Address to the U.S. Senate -- Speech on His Refusal to Take the Oath of Loyalty to the Confederacy -- "Cornerstone Speech" -- Speech on His Expulsion from the Georgia Legislature -- "All That We Ask Is Equal Laws, Equal Legislation, and Equal Rights" -- Preface to The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ; -- Native American Dissent : -- Appeal to Choctaws and Chickasaws -- Memorial to Congress -- Battle of Sand Creek: Editorials and Congressional Testimony -- Treaty of Fort Laramie -- Dawes Severalty Act -- Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts -- Indians of All Tribes Occupation of Alcatraz: Proclamation -- Summary of Letter Requesting Further Review of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).

VOLUME 2 CONTENTS : -- African-American Civil Rights : -- Atlanta Exposition Address -- Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles -- "Lynching: Our National Crime" -- "Agitation" -- William Monroe Trotter's Protest to Woodrow Wilson -- "The Eruption of Tulsa" -- "U.S. Department of (White) Justice" -- "A Black Inventory of the New Deal" -- Call to Negro America to March on Washington -- An Appeal to the World -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Statement of Purpose -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- "I Have a Dream" -- "Message to the Grass Roots" -- "The Ballot or the Bullet" -- What We Want -- "Black Power" -- "What We Want, What We Believe" ; -- Women's Rights : -- Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments -- Lecture on Constitutional Equality -- "Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" -- "The Status of Woman, Past, Present, and Future" -- "Why Women Should Vote" -- Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee -- The SCUM Manifesto -- Women's March on Washington ; -- Political and Social Protest : -- Ten Days in a Mad-House -- How the Other Half Lives -- "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" -- Editorial on the Pullman Strike -- "Liberty" -- The "Cross of Gold" Speech -- Speech Opposing the League of Nations -- Auto Workers Strike -- "Share Our Wealth" Address -- Southern Manifesto -- The Port Huron Statement -- Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square -- Steal This Book -- Commonwealth Address ; -- Anti-War Activism : -- Speech against Conscription and War -- Speech Opposing War with Germany -- Antiwar Speech -- "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" -- Testimony of the Vietnam Veterans against the War -- "The Emperor Has No Clothes" Speech.

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