This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South with new material that situates the book in the context of subsequent movement literature.

    Here are the words of Marcos, words that recast Mexican politics and revived rebel imaginations everywhere. They look back to the traditions of Indian resistance and the dormant ideals of the Mexican revolution; they look forward to political strategies, styles, and theories that challenge the dominance of capitalism. The Introduction by John Ross situates the Zapatistas in the context of Mexican history and the Afterword by Frank Bardacke discusses their language and politics, as well as their meaning for the U.S. left. This edition also includes an "exclusive" prologue by Subcomandante Marcos and his speech to the Zapatista's August 1994 national convention.

    Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets and public speeches, this anthology brings together representative writingsmany of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted, from the Port Huron Statement and Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet to Richard Nixon's If Mob Rule Takes Hold in the U.S. and Ronald Reagan's Freedom versus Anarchy on Campus. Introductions and headnotes by theeditors help highlight the importance of particular documents while relating them to each other and placing them within the broader context of the decade. While paying particular attention to civil rights, anti-war activity, Black power, the counter-culture, the women's and gay/lesbian struggles forrecognition, the authors also take into account the conservative backlashes these sparked and thus present a balanced portrait of a tumultous era. Covering an extremely popular period of history, Takin' It to the Streets stands out as a thorough and accessible collection of documents, anauthoritative reader for a decade such as America had not seen before or experienced since.