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Author Streitmatter, Rodger.

Title Voices of revolution : the dissident press in America / Rodger Streitmatter.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, c2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  071.3 St83v    ---  Available
Description xiv, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Speaking up for the disenfranchised. Fighting for the rights of American labor -- Awakening a nation to the sins of slavery -- Setting a revolutionary agenda for women's rights. Struggling to form a more perfect union. Promoting "free love" in the Victorian age -- Crusading against the barbarism of lynching -- Educating America on the merits of socialism -- Following anarchy toward a new social order. Rising from a lone voice to a mass movement. Propelling black Americans into the promised land -- Demanding wider access to birth control information. Changing the world in a single generation. Opposing America's dirty war in Vietnam -- Defining a counterculture of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--and social justice -- Standing tall and tough against racial oppression -- Creating an agenda for gay and lesbian rights -- Liberating the American woman -- Dissidence in a new millennium.
Subject Underground press publications -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Underground press publications -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0231122497 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231122489 (alk. paper)

 
    
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