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Contents

• Modern Social Movements
• Feminism
  • Origins of Third Wave
  • Cultural Feminism
  • Political Feminism
  • Liberal Feminism
  • Radical Feminism
• Black Power
  • The US Civil Rights Movement
  • Radicals
  • Since 1968
• Other Ethnic/Minority Movements
• Lesbian and Gay Rights

Modern Social Movements

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Feminism

• WEB Our Bodies. Ourselves Reading Room, Articles and Speeches [At Feminist.com]
• Origins of Third Wave
  • Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex
  • Betty Freidan:
• Cultural Feminism
  • Sylvia Plath (1932-1963): Poems [At Stanford]
  • Adrienne Rich (1929-): Poems [At Poem Hunter]
  • Maya Angelou: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings part of Poems [At Poem Hunter]
• Political Feminism
  • National Organization of Women: Statement of Purpose, 1966 [At Hanover] or here [At USInfo]
  • ERA
• Liberal Feminism
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• Radical Feminism
  • WEB The Andrea Dworkin Online Library [At IGC]
    An interesting and generous site which makes many of Dworkin's writings available online.
  • Andrea Dworkin: Intercourse, 1987 [At Dworkin Online Library]. Dworkin rejects the argument that she calls all heterosexual intercourse rape. See Interview 1995.

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Black Power

• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Speech at the Atlanta Exposition, 1895
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Awakening of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1896 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): The Case of the Negro, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1889, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• Booker T. Washington: The Case of the Negro, 1899 [At Hanover]
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Atlanta Exposition Address, from Up From Slavery, 1895 [At Alcyone]
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915): Up From Slavery [At Project Gutenberg] or HTML Version [At Alcyone]
• W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: Strivings of the Negro People, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1897, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• W. E. B. Du Bois: A Negro Schoolmaster in the New South, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1889, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  Du Bois recounts some of his own experiences as a rural schoolteacher in Tennessee, and expresses frustration at the barriers that confronted some of his more ambitious students.
• W. E. B. Du Bois: Of the Training of Black Men, The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  His response to Booker T Washington's approach.
• Ralph McGill: Interview with W.E.B Dubois, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1977, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
• W.E.B. DuBois: The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text] and here [At Bartleby]
• The US Civil Rights Movement
  • Brown v. Board of Education, 1954, excerpts [At this Site]
  • James Baldwin: A Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation, 1963 [At Then Again]
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968): The Negro is Your Brother, Letter from a Birmingham Jail, The Atlantic Monthly, August 1963, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: Letter From A Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963 [At Hanover] or here [At Historical Text Archive]
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream" speech - August 28, 1963 [At The American Revolution Site] or here [At Eserver]
  • Martin Luther King Jr.: "I Have a Dream", 1963 (introduction) [At USInfo]
  • George Wallace: The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud Sham and Hoax,, July 5, 1964 [At this Site]
  • Robert F. Kennedy: Speech on the Death of Martin Luther King,, April 4, 1968 [At this Site]
• Radical
  • Malcolm X
  • The Black Panthers: Party Platform, 1966 [At Hanover]
  • Civil Rights Act, 1991 [At Wiretap]
• Since 1968
  • Jesse L. Jackson: After the Million Man March, October 23, 1995 [At Hartford-HWP]
  • Maya Angelou: I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings part of Poems  [At Poem Hunter]
  • Maya Angelou: A Poem from the Million Man March  [At Poem Hunter]

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Other Ethnic/Minority Movements

• Clyde Warrior, "We Are Not Free", 1967 [At USInfo]
  Speech by an American Indian activist.

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Lesbian and Gay Rights

• WEBSee People With a History: Online Guide to LGBT History
• WEB The Letter Wars
  A real series of letters, which reads better than a novel.
• Homosexuals in Government, 1950. [At UPenn]
  A brief, but very explicit, excerpt from the U.S. Congressional Record vol 96, part 4 [81st Congress 2nd Session March 29 -- April 24, 1950]
• Jerry Lisker, Homo Nest Raided: Queen Bees are Stinging. Daily News (New York), July 6, 1969 [At CMU],
  Account of Stonewall riots in the Daily News. New York Daily News. See also Robert Amsel: A Walk on the Wild Side, from The Advocate, 1987 [At CMU]
• Gay Liberation Front (London): Manifesto, 1971 (rev. 1979) [At PWH]
• Manifesto of First Chinese Tongzhi Conference, 1996 [At HKGAY]
  Tongzhi is being used in Chinese for Gay. This manifesto directly asserts a historical basis for modern Chinese homosexuals and the differences of Chinese Tongzhi movements with western gay movements.

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