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American Rhetorical Movements
since 1900 (COM341)

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Note Pages Recommended Sources Guide to MLA Style in Rhetorical Criticism Movement Chronology Movement Theory Labor Portal: Rhetoric of the Labor Movement State Sovereignty: Travels of an Argument Complex	Assignment Instructions Debates Short Paper
Related Portal Pages (under construction) Some of these sites are purely documentary, some are contemporary clearing houses for ongoing social movements, and many are partisan in nature. Enter at your own risk.
General History and Public Address	American Rhetoric Hypertext on American History Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Civil Rights before WWII	African American Odyssey--Library of Congress The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Remembering Jim Crow Documenting the American South Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images The Booker T. Washington Papers The Marcus Garvey Papers Project S ay It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches. American Radioworks Documenta ry.
Labor, Socialist and Progessive Era	Go to Labor Portal Page
Red Scare, Cold War and Anti-Communism	The Literature & Culture of the American 1950s FBI Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room--Historical Interest
Civil Rights in the King Years	The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches. American Radioworks Documentary. Brother/Outsider: The Life of Bahard Rustin (PBS Companion Site) NAACP Online The Nation of Islam Online Bobby Seale's Home Page (Black Panther, Chicago Eight)
Culture of Protest/Vietnam	The Sixties Project Free Speech Movement Archives The San Francisco Digger Archives A Visual Journey: Photographs by Lisa Law 1965-1971(Virtual Exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History) The Chicago Seven Trial. Famous Trials. Ed. Douglas Linder.
Feminism	Feminist Majority Foundation Timeline of the Women's Rights Movement National Museum of Women's History Votes for Women Pictures 1850-1920 Andrea Dworkin Online Library
Contemporary Progressive Movements	20/20 Vision American Friends Service Committee (Quaker social justice arm) Social Democrats USA (claims descent from the Socialist Party) Democratic Socialists of America (also claims descent from the Socialist Party Socialist Party USA (also claims descent from the Socialist Party) Moveon.org Students for a Democratic Society (New SDS)
Contemporary Reactionary Movements	Institute for Historical Review (i.e. "the Holocaust didn't happen") Council of Conservative Citizens Constitution Society DixieNet: The League of the South Website Texas Nationalist Movement

Selected Primary Texts
Labor Movement	Eugene Debs, Statement to the Court August Spies, Defense
Origins of Civil Rights	Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address Plessy v. Ferguson W. E. B. DuBois, Niagara Movement Address W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk
Civil Rights since 1950	Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail
Student Protest	The Port Huron Statement
Feminism	SNCC Position Paper: Women in the Movement Ursula K. LeGuin, She Unnames Them