Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston by Maria Stewart Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall "America" by James Monroe Whitfield The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth John Brown's Last Speech Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton Wall Street Owns The Country by Mary Elizabeth Lease Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union by Mary Elizabeth Lease "Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" (1898) by Harriet Hanson Robinson NEW "The Negro Should Not Enter the Army" Statement of the Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman By Emma Goldman Plain Words "Back of the Yards" by Vicky Starr ("Stella Nowicki") NEW "You Have to Fight for Freedom" Sylvia Woods NEW Organizing the Unemployed in the Bronx in the 1930s Rose Chernin NEW Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol A selection from Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967 A Selection of the Poetry of Langston Hughes Appeal to Adlai Stevenson by Robert Williams Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone The Revolution is At Hand A speech by John Lewis The Ballot or the Bullet A speech by Malcolm X A message to the Grassroots A speech by Malcolm X An End To History by Mario Savio The Basis of Black Power: a SNCC position paper Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody "Who Will Revere the Black Woman?" by Abbey Lincoln Power Anywhere Where There's People A speech by Fred Hampton Ellen Willis Replies by Ellen Willis The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey Newton The Combahee River Collective Statement NEW Abortion Is a Woman's Right by Susan Brownmiller Stonewall by Martin Duberman The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich Why We Fight by Vito Russo Riot Grrrl Manifesto NEW A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison 'Be Down with the Brown!' by Elizabeth ("Betita") Martinez Women, Power, and Revolution by Kathleen Neal Cleaver Surviving the Storm: Lessons from Nature by Julia Butterfly Hill Organizing in Our Communities Post-September 11th (2001) by Monami Maulik