Was the war being fought to establish that Hitler was wrong in his ideas of white Nordic supremacy over inferior races? The United States’ armed forces were segregated by race. When troops were jammed...
Money (before he became a Supreme Court justice), wrote: They control the people through the people’s own money.
In fact, it was because they came from a settled culture, of tribal customs and family ties, of communal life and traditional ritual, that African blacks found themselves especially helpless when remo...
In 1868, the Georgia legislature voted to expel all its Negro members-two senators, twenty-five representatives-and Turner spoke to the Georgia House of Representatives (a black woman graduate student...
Harriet Tubman, born into slavery, her head injured by an overseer when she was fifteen, made her way to freedom alone as a young woman, then become the most famous conductor on the Underground Railro...
What if these different despised groups—the Indians, the slaves, the poor whites—should combine? Even before there were so many blacks, in the seventeenth century, there was, as Abbot Smith puts it, a...
The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making...
The day after Congress declared war, the Socialist party met in emergency convention in St. Louis and called the declaration a crime against the people of the United States. In the summer of 1917, Soc...
Jackson himself described how the treaties were obtained: . . . we addressed ourselves feelingly to the predominant and governing passion of all Indian tribes, i.e., their avarice or fear. He encourag...
In the question period someone asked, Why did you write so harshly in Black Bourgeoisie? His response brought laughter and applause from the audience: My friend, white people have bamboozled us. Preac...
Patroonship
Party politics and religion now substituting for class conflict.
WITCH lives and laughs in every woman. She is the free part of each of us, beneath the shy smiles, the acquiescence to absurd male domination, the make-up or flesh-suffocating clothes our sick society...
The well-paid leaders of the AFL were protected from criticism by tightly controlled meetings and by goon squads—hired toughs originally used against strikebreakers but after a while used to intimidat...
The plight of Jews in German-occupied Europe, which many people thought was at the heart of the war against the Axis, was not a chief concern of Roosevelt. Henry Feingold's research (The Politics of R...
That contract law was intended to discriminate against working people and for business is shown by Horwitz in the following example of the early nineteenth century: the courts said that if a worker si...
Surveying a series of news events in the first week of January 1983, David Nyhan of the Boston Globe wrote: There is something brewing in the land that bodes ill for those in Washington who ignore it....
My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral energy for the present. And the lines are not always clear. In t...
Missing from such histories are the countless small actions of unknown people that led up to those great moments. When we understand this, we can see that the tiniest acts of protest in which we engag...
But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.