Voices of Revolution

by Streitmatter, Rodger

• ISBN13: 9780231122498
• ISBN10: 0231122497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Streitmatter tells the stories of dissident American publications and press movements of the last two centuries, and of the colorful individuals behind them. From publications that fought for the disenfranchised to those that promoted social reform, Voices of Revolution examines the abolitionist and labor press, black power publications of the 1960s, the crusade against the barbarism of lynching, the women's movement, and antiwar journals. Streitmatter also discusses gay and lesbian publications, contemporary on-line journals, and counterculture papers like The Kudzu and The Berkeley Barb that flourished in the 1960s. Voices of Revolution also identifies and discusses some of the distinctive characteristics shared by the genres of the dissident press that rose to prominence -- from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. For far too long, mainstream journalists and even some media scholars have viewed radical, leftist, or progressive periodicals in America as "rags edited by crackpots." However, many of these dissident presses have shaped the way Americans think about social and political issues.

Author Biography

Rodger Streitmatter is professor of journalism at American University

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
PART 1 SPEAKING UP FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED
Fighting for the Rights of American Labor	3	(17)
Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery	20	(16)
Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights	36	(25)
Dissident Voices/Common Threads I	54	(7)
PART 2 STRUGGLING TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION
Promoting ``Free Love'' in the Victorian Age	61	(19)
Crusading Against the Barbarism of Lynching	80	(17)
Educating America on the Merits of Socialism	97	(18)
Following Anarchy Toward a New Social Order	115	(26)
Dissident Voices/Common Threads II	135	(6)
PART 3 RISING FROM A LONE VOICE TO A MASS MOVEMENT
Propelling Black Americans Into the Promised Land	141	(18)
Demanding Wider Access to Birth Control Information	159	(24)
Dissident Voices/Common Threads III	176	(7)
PART 4 CHANGING THE WORLD IN A SINGLE GENERATION
Opposing America's ``Dirty War'' in Vietnam	183	(17)
Defining a Counterculture of Sex, Drugs, Rock `n' Roll...and Social Justice	200	(20)
Standing Tall and Tough Against Racial Oppression	220	(18)
Creating an Agenda for Gay and Lesbian Rights	238	(18)
Liberating the American Woman	256	(23)
Dissident Voices/Common Threads IV	275	(4)
Dissidence in a New Millennium	279	(6)
Acknowledgments	285	(2)
Notes	287	(40)
Index	327