Mr. Allen — American Protest Literature

Here is a list of the assigned readings for the summer seminar: Thomas Paine Common Sense (introduction) Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence David Walker An Appeal The Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions Frederick Douglass What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? Abraham Lincoln "House Divided" speech Walt Whitman I Sing the Body Electric A Boston Ballad John Brown Address to the Court Henry David Thoreau A Plea for Captain John Brown Mass. 2nd Battalion (traditional) John Brown's Body Julia Ward Howe The Battle Hymn of the Republic Rebecca Harding Davis Life in the Iron Mills Stephen Crane In the Depths of a Coal Mine W.E.B. DuBois The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 1) The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 6) The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 11) The Souls of Black Folk (chapter 13) Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail "I Have a Dream" speech Malcolm X "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech Lyndon B. Johnson "On Civil Rights, at Gettysburg" speech Betty Friedan The Feminine Mystique (excerpt)