Name/Title
The American reader :words that moved a nation /edited by Diane Ravitch.Description
The Mayflower compact -- Defense of freedom of the press / Andrew Hamilton -- A demand to limit search and seizure / James Otis -- The slaves' appeal to the Royal Governor of Massachusetts -- The meaning of patriotism in America / France Wright -- The case for public schools / Horace Mann -- Address to the Ohio Women's rights convention / Sojourner Truth -- Address to the legislature of New York on Womens' rights / Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Chief Seattle's oration -- A disappointed woman / Lucy Stone -- Walker's appeal / David Walker -- Bearing witness against slavery / Angelina Grimk{acute}e -- An address to the slaves of the United States of America / Henry Highland Garnet -- Independence Day speech at Rochester / Frederick Douglass -- A century of dishonor / Helen Hunt Jackson -- The Atlanta Exposition address / Booker T. Washington -- The solitude of self / Elizabeth Cady Stanton^^Women and economics / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Should higher education for women differ? / M. Carey Thomas -- Prejudice against women / Carrie Chapman Catt -- Advice to a Black schoolgirl / W.E.B. DuBois -- The right to one's body / Margaret Sanger -- Freedom / E.B. White -- Confirmation hearings / David Lilienthal -- A plea for civil rights / Hubert Humphrey -- The Port Huron statement / Tom Hayden -- Free to choose / Milton and Rose Friedman -- Speech to the Democratic National Convention / Jesse Jackson -- AmeR{acute}ican / Tato Laviera -- The American idea / Theodore H. White.
xv, 383 p. :ill. ;24 cm.Book Details
Date Published
1991Call No.
E173 .A753 1990ISBN
0062720163LCCN
89046553Notes
Bibliography Note: Bibliography: p. 375-377.