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To 1776

Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies by Bartoleme de Las Casas
A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn ☉

1776 to 1850

Letter to Jefferson by Benjamin Banneker
Federalist No. 10
Tecumseh's Speech to the Osages (Winter 1811-12)
David Walker's Appeal by David Walker (1830)
Slaves Are Prohibited to Read and Write by Law North Carolina Statute (passed 1830-1)
Black Hawk's Surrender Speech (1832)
The Demand For Order And The Birth Of Modern Policing by Kristian Williams ☉
Address Delivered at the African Masonic Hall, Boston by Maria Stewart
Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall
From The Narrative Of The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (1845)
Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1848)

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1850 to the Civil War

A Plea For The Oppressed by Lucy Stanton (1850)
Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth (1851)
"America" by James Monroe Whitfield
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro by Frederick Douglass
John Brown's Last Speech (1859)

The Civil War to 1900

Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky ☉
"I Denounce the So-Called Emancipation as a Stupendous Fraud" by Frederick Douglass (1888)
Wall Street Owns The Country by Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)
Speech to the Women's Christian Temperance Union by Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)
The Convict Lease System by Frederick Douglass (1893)
Lynch Law By Ida B. Wells (1893)
"Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" by Harriet Hanson Robinson(1898) ☉
The Omaha Platform of the People's Party of America
Calixto Garcia's Letter to General William R. Shatter (1898)
"The Negro Should Not Enter the Army" Statement of the Missionary Department of the Atlanta, Georgia, A.M.E. Church (1899)
The First Vietnam: The U.S.-Philippine War of 1899 by Luzviminda Francisco (1973) ☉

1900 to the First World War

The Axe at the Root by William Thurston Brown (1901)
Crime and Criminals: Address to the Prisoners
in the Chicago Jail by Clarence Darrow (1902)
"Agitation—The Greatest Factor for Progress" by Mother Jones
The War Prayer by Mark Twain (1904)
"The Roosevelt Corollary" and "To Roosevelt" by Theodore Roosevelt and Rubin Dario (1904, 1905)
Manifesto and Preamble
of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905, 1908)
Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty by Emma Goldman (1908)
The General Strike by "Big Bill" Haywood (1911)
Speech to Striking Coal Miners by Mother Jones (1912)
Remember Ludlow! by Julia May Courtney (1914)
Strike Against War by Helen Keller (1916)
Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman by Emma Goldman (1917)
Eugene Debs' Statement to the Court Upon Being Convicted of Violating the Sedition Act (1918)

1918 through the Depression

Plain Words (1919)
Propaganda by Edward Bernays
The Negro is the Race Oppressed by All the Imperialists by Lamine Senghor (1927)
A selection from Black Bolshevik by Harry Haywood
"I Am A Union Woman" by Aunt Molly Jackson (1931)
"You Have to Fight for Freedom" by Sylvia Wood (published 1973)
A Selection of the Poetry of Langston Hughes
Organizing the Unemployed in the Bronx in the 1930s by Rose Chernin
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Godwin Woodson (1933)
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol (1937)
"You Cannot Kill the Working Class" by Angelo Herndon (1937)
"Back of the Yards" by Vicky Starr ("Stella Nowicki"; Published 1973)
War Is A Racket by Major General Smedley Butler (1935)

War World Two through the Fifties

The Six Pamphlets of the White Rose Society
The Montgomery Bus Boycott from the Women's Political Council
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon (1959)
A Historical Survey of Organizations of the Left Among the Chinese in America by H. M. Lai (published 1972) ☉

The 1960s

"Bigger Than A Hamburger" by Ella Baker (1960)
Appeal to Adlai Stevenson by Robert Williams (1961)
"Why do the Yankees hate the Cuban Revolution?" by Fidel Castro (1962)
The American Revolution: Pages From a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs (1963)
Malcolm X on Afro-American History
Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. (1963)
Mississippi Goddam by Nina Simone (1963)
The Revolution Is At Hand A speech by John Lewis (1963)
A message to the Grassroots A speech by Malcolm X (1963)
My dungeon Shook by James Baldwin (1963)
The Ballot or the Bullet A speech by Malcolm X (1964)
From The Autobiography of Malcolm X
An End To History by Mario Savio (1964)
 Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo by Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965)
The Basis of Black Power: a SNCC position paper (1966)
"Who Will Revere the Black Woman?" by Abbey Lincoln (1966)
"Create Two, Three, Many Vietnams: Message to the Tricontinental" by Che Guevara (1967)
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody (1968)
Ellen Willis Replies by Ellen Willis (1968)
Power Anywhere Where There's People A speech by Fred Hampton (1969)
The Freedom Schools: Concept And Organization by Staughton Lynd
Black Panther Party Platform, Program, and Rules
The Port Huron Statement by the Students for a Democratic Society
 The Radical Education Project: An Introduction And An Invitation
The League of Revolutionary Black Workers: A Historical Study by A. Muhammad Ahmad
Attention All Military Personnel A pamphlet of the Vietnam Day Committee (1965)
The Weapon of Theory by Amilcar Cabral (1966)
The Thoughts of Muhammad Ali in Exile, c. 1967
'Be Down with the Brown!' by Elizabeth ("Betita") Martinez (published 1998)
A Question of Class by Dorothy Allison (published 1994)
African History in the Service of the Black Liberation by Walter Rodney (1968)
Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown (1969)
"A War I Opposed And Despised" by Bill Clinton (1969)
Women, Power, and Revolution by Kathleen Neal Cleaver (published 1998)
Abortion Is a Woman's Right by Susan Brownmiller (published 1999)
Stonewall by Martin Duberman (published 1993)
Federal Bureau of Intimidation by Howard Zinn
Selections from Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam
Abortion Is a Woman's Right by Susan Brownmiller

The 1970s

Refugees from Amerika: A Gay Manifesto by Carl Wittman (1970)
The Woman-Identified Woman by the Radicalesbians (1970)
An Open Letter to My Sister, Angela Y. Davis by James Baldwin
The Women's Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements by Huey Newton (1970)
National Liberation and Culture by Amilcar Cabral (1970)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Gil Scott-Heron (1970)
Remembering the Real Dragon: An Interview with George Jackson
An interview by Karen Wald (1971)
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
George Jackson: Black Revolutionary By Walter Rodney (1971)
Excerpts from Scanlan's Guerrilla War in the U.S.A. January 1971 Issue
Guerilla War in the United States, 1965-1970 (Map) Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation by Angela Y. Davis
"It's In Your Hands" by Fannie Lou Hamer (1971)
Looking back: Radical Criminology and Social Movements by Gregory Shank ☉
Three chapters from Victor: An Unfinished Song by Joan Jara (1973)
"The Powell Memo" by Lewis Powell
Street Speech by Walter Rodney
A Selection From Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney
Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich (1977)
The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977)
Women in Prison:
How It Is With Us by Assata Shakur (1978)
The Tyranny Of Structurelessness by Joreen
 Douglas Fraser's Resignation letter from the Labor-Management Group
Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement by The Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women's Liberation Union
The Low Road by Marge Piercy
The Social Functions of the Prisons in the United States by Bettina Aptheker
The Struggle Goes On by Walter Rodney (1979)
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde (1979)

The 1980s

The Bridge Poem by Donna Kate Rushin (1981)
"There Was No Rules At All" — Stories from Vietnam
by Haywood T. "The Kid" Kirkland (1984)
How to Master Secret Work by the Communist Party of South Africa
Why We Fight by Vito Russo (1988)
The Movement Action Plan: A Strategic Framework Describing the Eight Stages of Successful Social Movements by Bill Moyer
People Have The Power by Patti Smith

The 1990s to Today

The Queer Nation Manifesto
Nelson Mandela's statement at his trial and his speech given at his release (1990)
Riot Grrrl Manifesto (1991)
"Action Will Be Taken": Left Anti-intellectualism and Its Discontents by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian Parenti
What Should White People Do? by Linda Martin Alcoff
What Legacy from the Radical Internationalism of 1968? by Max Elbaum
Strategizing For A Living Revolution by George Lakey
"You Who are the Bureaucrats of Empire, Remember Who We Are" by Don Mitchell
June Jordan Speaks Out Against The 1991 Gulf War
"The Feminization of Earth First! by Judi Bari(1992)
Imperialism 101 by Michael Parenti (1995) ☉
From Understanding Power by Noam Chomsky
Prison Labor, Slavery & Capitalism in Historical Perspective by Stephen Hartnett ☉
The War on the People: An Interview with Christian Parenti by Suzi Weissman ☉
Social Insecurity: The Transformation of American Criminal Justice, 1965-2000 by Anthony Platt ☉
Race, Prison, and Poverty ☉ by Paul Street
Empire Abroad, Prisons At Home: Dark Connections by Paul Street ☉
The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A Conversation Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez ☉
Opening Up Borderland Studies: A Review of U.S.-Mexico Border Militarization Discourse by Jose Palafox ☉
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Y. Davis ☉
 Slavery and Prison — Understanding the Connections by Kim Gilmore ☉
Lockdown America in 22 Minutes [Audio] by Christian Parenti ☉
Letter from Palestine by Rachel Corrie
Surviving the Storm: Lessons from Nature by Julia Butterfly Hill (2001)
Organizing in Our Communities Post-September 11th by Monami Maulik (2001)
Crime As Social Control by Christian Parenti ☉
Prison Nationby Sasha Abramsky ☉
The New Pentagon Papers by Karen Kwiatkowski
New US Military Bases:
Side Effects Or Causes Of War? by Zoltan Grossman
A Sampling of U.S. Foreign Policy (Map)