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Book

A protest history of the United States

Call Number

  • 303.484 B883 (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW)

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Publication Information

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2025]

Physical Description

xiii, 346 pages ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Exploring 400 years of protest and resistance in US history--and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world"--

Contents

  • Author's Note
  • Introduction: Our conflicted protest history
  • Indigenous defense of land, life, and culture
  • "What to the slave is the Fourth of July?"
  • Labor rights and union strikes
  • Anti-war marches and conscientious objectors
  • Rebellions in the twentieth-century
  • Her body. Her ballot. Her protest.
  • Protesting violent policing
  • Contesting climate denial and environmental racism.

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