Voices of Freedom: A Documentary Reader

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Eric Foner’s best-selling reader, the best value for the U.S. survey Voices of Freedom is the only reader with a thematic focus on American freedom. The organization of this enormously popular, compact, and accessible primary source documents collection mirrors the best-selling Give Me Liberty! survey texts. Much more affordable than other readers of its kind, it is an exceptional value in print and ebook formats. The Sixth Edition features new selections that focus on issues of inclusion and exclusion and the question, “Who is an American?” Publisher’s Notice Title Page Copyright About the Author Contents Preface Half-title Page Chapter 15: “What is Freedom?”: Reconstruction, 1865–1877 96. Petition of Black Residents of Nashville (1865) 97. Petition of Committee on Behalf of the Freedmen to Andrew Johnson (1865) 98. The Mississippi Black Code (1865) 99. A Sharecropping Contract (1866) 100. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Home Life” (ca. 1875) 101. Frederick Douglass, “The Composite Nation” (1869) 102. Robert B. Elliott on Civil Rights (1874) Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age, 1870–1890 103. Jorgen and Otto Jorgensen, Homesteading in Montana (1908) 104. Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889) 105. William Graham Sumner on Social Darwinism (ca. 1880) 106. A Second Declaration of Independence (1879) 107. Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879) 108. Chief Joseph, “Let Me Be a Free Man” (1879) 109. Saum Song Bo, Chinese-American Protest (1885) 110. Walter Rauschenbusch and the Social Gospel (1912) Chapter 17: Freedom’s Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890–1900 111. The Populist Platform (1892) 112. William Birney, “Deporting Mohammedans” (1897) 113. W. E. B. Du Bois, “Your Country?” (1903) 114. Ida B. Wells, Crusade for Justice (ca. 1892) 115. Frances E. Willard, Women and Temperance (1883) 116. Josiah Strong, Our Country (1885) 117. Emilio Aguinaldo on American Imperialism in the Philippines (1899) Chapter 18: The Progressive Era, 1900–1916 118. Manuel Gamio on a Mexican-American Family and American Freedom (ca. 1926) 119. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics (1898) 120. John A. Ryan, A Living Wage (1912) 121. The Industrial Workers of the World and the Free Speech Fights (1909) 122. Margaret Sanger on “Free Motherhood,” from Woman and the New Race (1920) 123. Mary Church Terrell, “What It Means to Be Colored in the Capital of the United States” (1906) 124. Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom (1912) 125. John Mitchell, Industrial Liberty (1910) Chapter 19: Safe for Democracy: The United States and World War I, 1916–1920 126. Woodrow Wilson, A World “Safe for Democracy” (1917) 127. Randolph Bourne, “Trans-National America” (1916) 128. A Critique of the Versailles Peace Conference (1919) 129. Carrie Chapman Catt, Address to Congress on Woman’s Suffrage (1917) 130. Eugene V. Debs, Speech to the Jury (1918) 131. Rubie Bond, “The Great Migration” (1917) 132. Marcus Garvey on Africa for the Africans (1921) 133. John A. Fitch on the Great Steel Strike (1919) Chapter 20: From Business Culture to Great Depression: The Twenties, 1920–1932 134. Immigration Quotas under the Johnson-Reed Act (1924) 135. Mrs. W. C. Lathrop, New Freedom in the Home (1921) 136. The Fight for Civil Liberties (1921) 137. Bartolomeo Vanzetti’s Last Statement in Court (1927) 138. Congress Debates Immigration (1921) 139. Justice James Clark McReynolds, Meyer v. Nebraska and the Meaning of Liberty (1923) 140. Alain Locke, The New Negro (1925) 141. Elsie Hill and Florence Kelley Debate the Equal Rights Amendment (1922) Chapter 21: The New Deal, 1932–1940 142. Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1937) 143. John Steinbeck, The Harvest Gypsies (1936) 144. John L. Lewis on Labor’s Great Upheaval (1937) 145. Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Greater Security for the Average Man” (1934) 146. Herbert Hoover on the New Deal and Liberty (1936) 147. Norman Cousins, “Will Women Lose Their Jobs?” (1939) 148. Frank H. Hill on the Indian New Deal (1935) 149. W. E. B. Du Bois, “A Negro Nation within a Nation” (1935) Chapter 22: Fighting for the Four Freedoms World War II, 1941–1945 150. Franklin D. Roosevelt on the Four Freedoms (1941) 151. Will Durant, “Freedom of Worship” (1943) 152. Henry R. Luce, “The American Century” (1941) 153. Henry A. Wallace on “The Century of the Common Man” (1942) 154. Judge Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty (1944) 155. World War II and Mexican-Americans (1945) 156. Charles H. Wesley on African-Americans and the Four Freedoms (1944) 157. Justice Robert A. Jackson, Dissent in Korematsu v. United States (1944) Chapter 23: The United States and the Cold War, 1945–1953 158. Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945) 159. The Truman Doctrine (1947) 160. Daniel L. Schorr, “Reconverting Mexican Americans” (1946) 161. Walter Lippmann, A Critique of Containment (1947) 162. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) 163. President’s Commission on Civil Rights, To Secure These Rights (1947) 164. Joseph R. McCarthy on the Attack (1950) 165. Margaret Chase Smith, Declaration of Conscience (1950) 166. Oscar Handlin, “The Immigration Fight Has Only Begun” (1952) Chapter 24: An Affluent Society, 1953–1960 167. Richard M. Nixon, “What Freedom Means to Us” (1959) 168. Clark Kerr, Freedom in Industrial Society (1960) 169. The Southern Manifesto (1956) 170. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (1962) 171. C. Wright Mills on “Cheerful Robots” (1959) 172. Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (1955) 173. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955) Chapter 25: The Sixties, 1960–1968 174. John F. Kennedy, Speech on Civil Rights (1963) 175. Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet” (1964) 176. Barry Goldwater on “Extremism in the Defense of Liberty” (1964) 177. Chief Justice Earl Warren, Opinion of the Court in Loving v. Virginia (1967) 178. The Port Huron Statement (1962) 179. Paul Potter on the Antiwar Movement (1965) 180. The National Organization for Women (1966) 181. César Chavez, “Letter from Delano” (1969) 182. The International 1968 (1968) Chapter 26: The Conservative Turn, 1969–1988 183. Brochure on the Equal Rights Amendment (1970s) 184. Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (1971) 185. Richard E. Blakemore on The Sagebrush Rebellion (1979) 186. Jimmy Carter on Human Rights (1977) 187. Jerry Falwell, Listen, America! (1980) 188. Phyllis Schlafly, “The Fraud of the Equal Rights Amendment” (1972) 189. James Watt, “Environmentalists: A Threat to the Ecology of the West” (1978) 190. Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address (1981) Chapter 27: From Triumph to Tragedy, 1989–2004 191. Pat Buchanan, Speech to the Republican National Convention (1992) 192. Bill Clinton, Speech on Signing of NAFTA (1993) 193. Declaration for Global Democracy (1999) 194. The Beijing Declaration on Women (1995) 195. Jaula de Oro (Cage of Gold), by Los Tigres del Norte (Tigers of the North) (1984) 196. Robert Byrd on the War in Iraq (2003) Chapter 28: A Divided Nation 197. Second Inaugural Address of George W. Bush (2005) 198. Archbishop Roger Mahoney, “Called by God to Help” (2006) 199. Justice Anthony Kennedy, Opinion of the Court in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) 200. Security, Liberty, and the War on Terror (2008) 201. Barack Obama, Eulogy at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (2015) 202. Khizr Khan, Speech at the Democratic National Convention (2016)