Includes bibliographical references (p. 519-527) and index.
Contents
Declaring independence : The American revolution -- Unvanishing the Indian : Native American rights -- Little books that started a big war : Abolition and antislavery -- This land is herland : Women's rights and suffragism -- Capitalism's discontents : Socialism and industry -- Strange fruit : Against lynching -- Dust tracks on the road : The Great depression -- The dungeon shook : Civil rights and Black liberation -- A problem that had no name : Second-wave feminism -- The word is out : Gay liberation -- From Saigon to Baghdad : The Vietnam war and beyond.