Table Of ContentCONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 The Early 20th century 1
Agimtion-The Grearesr Factor for Progress Mother Jones 3
1906: Rumble over 'The Jungle' Jon Blackwell 7
Remember Ludlow! Julia May Courtney 13
Frederick Taylor-The Biggest Bascard Ever 17
Tbe War Prayer Mark Truain 25
The House-Grey Memorandum 29
CHAPTER 2 World War I-New Deal 33
Fioal Address in Support of the 35
League of Nations Wloodrow \Vilson
Buck Versus Bell 49
Roosevelt's Nomination Address 55
The Negro and Social Change EleaMr Roosevelt 67
War is a Racker Major General Smedley D. Bmler 71
CHAPTER 3 World War II-Cold War 75
Radio Address Delivered b)• President Roosevelt 77
Attack on Pearl Harbor As Seen From 81
High on BarrJeship Pennsylvania ·s Mainmast
The Great Arsenal of Democracy Franklin Delano Roosevelt 91
Lend Lease Act, I 94 1 10I
Lener from President RooSE"velt co Stalin on an 107
Accepcable Compromise Regarding rhe Composition
of che Posrwar Polis.h Government
Scace of the Union .Message 111
co Congress Franklin D. Roosevelt
What Does American Democracy Mean co Me? 121
Maryi McLeod Bethune
Chief Clerk, Toolroom /,,ez Sauer 125
The Adanric Chaner 129
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iv AMERICAN SOCIETY SINCE 19c:>o
CHAPTER 4 The Cold War 133
Truman Announces Hiroshima Atomic Bombing 135
Excerpts from Telegraphic Message from 139
Moscow George Kennan
Sraremeot by General Marsha.II 155
Excerprs From Acheson's Speech To The Narional Press Club 159
US, Deparrmenr of Srare, lnrelligence Reporr Prepared in rhe 161
Office of Intelligence Resear;ch, '"Agrarian Reform in Guatemala ..
Radio and Television Address on Communism 173
in GuacemaJa John Foster DuJ/es
n
CIA Reporr on Overrhrow of Mossadegh 1
Memorandwn From the Chief of \VH/4/PM, Cencral 183
Jncelligence Agency (Hawkins) ,o the Chief of WH/4
of the Directorace for Plans (Esterline)
Cuban Missile Crisis Address co che Nation Jolm F. Kennedy 193
CHAPTER 5 Civil Rights 201
Power Anywhere Where There's People Fred Hampton 203
The Civil Righcs Movement: Fraud, 213
Sham, and Hoax George C. \'Ila/lace
loving ET UX. V. Virginia 229
Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports On Intelligence Activities 247
and The Righ1s of Americans
CHAPTER 6 Movements Of The 60S 251
lnrerview With Hugh Hefner 253
Testimony Of Ahbie Hoffman. 261
Yippie Workshop Speech Abbie Hoffma11 289
Address at cbe Public Memorial Service 295
for Roberr F. Kennedy Edward M. Kennedy
FBI Files on Black Panrhers in Norrh Carolina 299
Bob Dylan's Lener co the INS Defending 311
John Lennon and Yoko Ono
CHAPTER 7 Sex, Women, And Family 313
Speech Before Congress Carrie Chapma11 Catt 315
Testimony of Professor Anita Hill Regarding Clarence 11,omas 321
The Hope Speech Harvey Milk 325
Paul Farmer oo Structural Violence, AIDS and Health Care 331
FBI File on Alfred Kinsey 347
Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Ace of 2010 355
Contents v
CHAPTER 8 The Rise Of The Right: 80S-OO 359
The Meaning Of Communism 361
To Americans Vice--Presid,em Richard Ni:.:011
Ronald Reagan Address on Behalf of Senaror Barry Goldwarer 381
Renden•ous wich Desriny
Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech Ricbard M. Nixon 393
Dictatorships & Double Standards Jeane]. Kirl'Patrick 405
Honduras: Dicracorships and !Double 409
Standards Revisited Daniel Lubau aud Jim Lobe
The CIA's lmervemion in Afghaoisran 413
Sarah Palin Slams Obama Again on Ayers at 415
Florida Rally Transcript Lynn Sweet
CHAPTER 9 9/11-Today 423
Sraremenc of Principles 425
Narrative Niloofar Mina 427
Transcript of Obama 's Speech Opposing the Iraq War 429
Bush Makes Hisroric Speech Aboard Warship 433
Summary of the Mueller Report on Obstruction of Justke 439
CHAPTER ONE
THE EARLY
20TH CENTURY
AGITATION- THE GREATEST
FACTOR FOR PROGRESS
Mother Jones, (March 24, 1903)
One of l/Je most extraordinary organizers of the labor movement in the
early lluentieth teltlury was Mary Ha"is who took the name "Mother
1
Jones ... Born in Ireland, she beGt1me an .:,rganizer for the Uniud Mine
\Vorkers., and, iu her eighties, organized miners iu West Virginia and
Qi/orado. fo 1905. sl,e helped form rl,e I\VW. Upton Si11dair was so
inspt'red by her that he used her as a model for one of his characu,s in his
novel The Coal \Va,; wbith chronicled the Ludlow strike and massacre.
"''All over the «mntry she had roamed, and wherever she went, the flame
of protest had leaped up in the hearts of men; her story was a veritable
Odyssey of revolt.."' Here is a selettion from an addre.ss Mother Jones gave
to a mass audience i11 Toledo's Memorial Haft in 1903., as reported by the
Toledo Bee. -huroduction from Zinn and Amove's Voices of a Peopltr's
Hiswry of r/Je United Stares
"Mother" Jones, known throughout the country and in fact throughout
the world as "The Miners' Angel," addressed a motley gathering of
about 1,200 persons in Memorial hall Dast night. The lower hall was
packed. The gallery was full to overflowing and some even crowded the
steps leading to the building.
It was truly a motley gathering. The society woman, attracted by mere
curiosity to sc-c and hear the woman who has won such fame as the
guardian spirit of the miners; the factory girl, the wealthy man and his
less fornmatc brothers, the black man and the white man, old and young,
sat side by side and each came in for a share of criticism.
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4 TIIE EARLY 2.0TH CENTURY
"Mother" Jones is an eloquent speaker. There is just enough of the
down-cast accent to her words ro make it attractive and she has the fac
ulry of framing pathetic and beautiful word pictures. Despite her sixty
years and hex gray hairs, she is hale and hcaxty; has a voice that reaches
to the furthermost corner of almost any hall but it is nevertheless any·
thing but harsh ....
"Fellow workers," she lx.-gan, "'tis wdl for us co be here. Over a hun·
dred years ago men gathered to discuss the vital questions and later fought
together for a principle that won for us our civil liberty. Forty years ago men
gathered to discuss a growing evil under the old flag and lacer fought side
by side until cbattd slavery was abolished. But, by the wiping out of this
black stain upon our country another great crime-wage slavery- was fas
tened upon oux people. I stand on this platform ashamed of the conditions
existing in this country. I rdus<.'d to go to England and lecture only a few
days ago Ix-cause I was ashamed, first of all, to make the conditions existing
here known co the world and second, because my services were needed
here. 1 have just come from a God-cursed country, known as West Virginia;
from a state which has produced some of our best and brightest Statesmen;
a state where conditions arc coo awful for your imagination.
"I shaU cell you some things tonight that axe awful to contemplate;
but, perhaps, it is best that you to know of them. They may arouse you
from your lethargy if there is any manhood, womanhood or love of
country left in you. I have just come from a state which has an injunction
on every other foot of ground. Some months ago the president of the
United Mine Workers Uohn Mitchell] asked me co take a look into the
condition of the men in the mines of West Virginia. I went. I would gee a
gathering of miners in the darkness of the night up on the mountain side.
Herc I would listen to cheix talc: of woe; here I would try to encourage
them. I did not daxc to sleep in one of those miner's houses. If I did the
poor man would be called co che office in the morning and would be
discharged for sheltering old Mother Jones.
"I did my best to drive into the downtrodden men a littlt spirit, but it
was a task. They had been driven so long chat they were afraid. I used co
sit through the night by a stream of water. I could not go to the miners'
hovels so in the morning I would call tbe ferryman and he would take me
across the river to a hotel not owned by the mine operarors.
"The men in the antbracite district finally asked for more wages. They
were refused. A strike was called. I stayed in West Virginia,' held meetings
4 TIIE EARLY 2.0TH CENTURY
"Mother" Jones is an eloquent speaker. There is just enough of the
down-cast accent to her words ro make it attractive and she has the fac
ulry of framing pathetic and beautiful word pictures. Despite her sixty
years and hex gray hairs, she is hale and hcaxty; has a voice that reaches
to the furthermost corner of almost any hall but it is nevertheless any·
thing but harsh ....
"Fellow workers," she lx.-gan, "'tis wdl for us co be here. Over a hun·
dred years ago men gathered to discuss the vital questions and later fought
together for a principle that won for us our civil liberty. Forty years ago men
gathered to discuss a growing evil under the old flag and lacer fought side
by side until cbattd slavery was abolished. But, by the wiping out of this
black stain upon our country another great crime-wage slavery- was fas
tened upon oux people. I stand on this platform ashamed of the conditions
existing in this country. I rdus<.'d to go to England and lecture only a few
days ago Ix-cause I was ashamed, first of all, to make the conditions existing
here known co the world and second, because my services were needed
here. 1 have just come from a God-cursed country, known as West Virginia;
from a state which has produced some of our best and brightest Statesmen;
a state where conditions arc coo awful for your imagination.
"I shaU cell you some things tonight that axe awful to contemplate;
but, perhaps, it is best that you to know of them. They may arouse you
from your lethargy if there is any manhood, womanhood or love of
country left in you. I have just come from a state which has an injunction
on every other foot of ground. Some months ago the president of the
United Mine Workers Uohn Mitchell] asked me co take a look into the
condition of the men in the mines of West Virginia. I went. I would gee a
gathering of miners in the darkness of the night up on the mountain side.
Herc I would listen to cheix talc: of woe; here I would try to encourage
them. I did not daxc to sleep in one of those miner's houses. If I did the
poor man would be called co che office in the morning and would be
discharged for sheltering old Mother Jones.
"I did my best to drive into the downtrodden men a littlt spirit, but it
was a task. They had been driven so long chat they were afraid. I used co
sit through the night by a stream of water. I could not go to the miners'
hovels so in the morning I would call tbe ferryman and he would take me
across the river to a hotel not owned by the mine operarors.
"The men in the antbracite district finally asked for more wages. They
were refused. A strike was called. I stayed in West Virginia,' held meetings
