CONTENTS

Introduction

PART  1  SPEAKING UP FOR THE DISENFRANCHISED

1     Fighting for the Rights of American Labor

2     Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery

3     Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women’s Rights

Dissident Voices/Common Threads I

PART  2  STRUGGLING TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION

4     Promoting “Free Love” in the Victorian Age

5     Crusading Against the Barbarism of Lynching

6     Educating America on the Merits of Socialism

7     Following Anarchy Toward a New Social Order

Dissident Voices/Common Threads II

PART  3  RISING FROM A LONE VOICE TO A MASS MOVEMENT

8     Propelling Black Americans Into the Promised Land

9     Demanding Wider Access to Birth Control Information

Dissident Voices/Common Threads III

PART  4  CHANGING THE WORLD IN A SINGLE GENERATION

10     Opposing America’s “Dirty War” in Vietnam

11     Defining a Counterculture of Sex, Drugs, Rock ’n’ Roll … and Social Justice

12     Standing Tall and Tough Against Racial Oppression

13     Creating an Agenda for Gay and Lesbian Rights

14     Liberating the American Woman

Dissident Voices/Common Threads IV

15     Dissidence in a New Millennium

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index