| Description |
1 videodisc (ca 120 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Readings by Howard Zinn, Lili Taylor, Paul Robeson Jr., Sarah Jones, Brian Jones, John Sayles, Leslie Silva, Wallace Shawn, Anthony Arnove; introduction by Amy Goodman. |
| Credits |
Editor, Ron Myrvik ; cameras, Ron Myrvik, David Sperling, Mark Aaron. |
| Event |
Recorded at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City, on October 22, 2004. |
| Contents |
Devastation of the Indies: A brief account (1542) / Bartolome de Las Casas -- 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) / Sylvia 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 obedience (November 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. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- Sources.
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United States -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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| Added Author |
Goodman, Amy, 1957-
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Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Voices of a people's history of the United States. Selections.
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Arnove, Anthony, 1969-
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Taylor, Lili, 1967-
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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
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Jones, Sarah.
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Jones, Brian.
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Sayles, John, 1950-
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Silva, Leslie.
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Shawn, Wallace.
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Society for Ethical Culture.
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| Added Title |
Voices of a people's history of the United States |
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People's history of the United States |
| ISBN |
1904859429 |
| Standard No. |
9781904859420 |
| Music No. |
AKV004 AK Press |
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