All the PeoplePeople call it "post-war," but All the People covers a period in U.S. history that features battles of another kind-from Cold War combat overseas to struggles for equality at home to learning to live with the threat of terrorism on U.S. soil. During these years, the United States began to be a nation for all its people, outlawing school segregation, protesting war in Vietnam, and campaigning for equal rights for women. From Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to seamstress Rosa Parks, extraordinary individuals led us back to the ideals espoused by the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. But mostly-as it always has been in the United States-it was ordinary citizens who marched and voted and hoped and dreamed and made things happen. All the People includes the events of September 11, 2001, and a discussion of how many aspects of the terrorist attacks have brought to the forefront the qualities that keep America strong: representative democracy, freedom of speech and press, and, especially in the face of religious totalitarianism, the basic freedom of religious tolerance. |
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Contents
About Democracy and Struggles | 9 |
BUILDING AMERICA | 10 |
The Making of a President | 13 |
A Major Leaguer | 18 |
A Very Short History of Russia | 23 |
A Curtain of Iron | 27 |
The Marshall Plan | 30 |
ISRAEL AND AN AMERICAN PEACEMAKER | 34 |
Friedan Schlafly and Friends | 137 |
As Important As the Cotton Gin | 144 |
Picking and Picketing | 147 |
These Are the Times That Try Mens Souls | 153 |
CIVIL RIGHTS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS | 156 |
Up to the Mountain | 157 |
A New Kind of Power | 161 |
The Counterculture Rocks | 165 |
A Lost Election | 36 |
Spies | 40 |
Tail Gunner Joe | 44 |
Liking Ike | 49 |
Houses Kids Cars and Fast Food | 54 |
French Indochina | 60 |
JFK Jr saluting his 12 Separate but Unequal | 64 |
JIM CROW IN THE FAR NORTH | 66 |
Linda Brownand Others | 68 |
GETTING INTEGRATED | 73 |
MLKS Senior and Junior | 74 |
Rosa Parks Was Tired | 78 |
Three Boys and Six Girls | 83 |
Passing the Torch | 88 |
A SOLITARY CHILD | 90 |
Being President Isnt Easy | 93 |
Some Brave Children Meet a Roaring Bull | 97 |
Standing With Lincoln | 101 |
The Presidents Number | 105 |
LBJ | 109 |
The Biggest Vote in History | 112 |
Salt and Pepper the Kids | 116 |
A King Gets a Prize and Goes to Jail | 120 |
From Selma to Montgomery | 124 |
War in Southeast Asia | 128 |
AN UNWILLING GUEST AT THE HANOI HILTON | 131 |
Lyndon in Trouble | 133 |
A FARMING VILLAGE IN VIETNAM | 136 |
Vietnam China and Watergate | 170 |
MERCURY GEMINI AND SATURN | 176 |
A Congressman and a Peanut Farmer | 179 |
Taking a Leading Role | 182 |
Living on the Edge | 191 |
The End of the Cold War | 194 |
A Quilt Not a Blanket | 198 |
THE NEW TECHNOLOGY | 201 |
Is It Me or We? | 203 |
PICTURING OURSELVES | 206 |
The Land That Never Has Been Yet | 208 |
A Boy from Hope | 211 |
Politics and Values | 214 |
COVERING UP OR JUST PLAIN LYING | 217 |
Electing the 21st Centurys First President | 219 |
Of Colleges and Courts | 223 |
Big Ideas | 228 |
WATCH THAT BRIEFCASE | 231 |
Catastrophe War and a New Century | 232 |
New York and the American Way | 238 |
The Best in US and Some Civics | 240 |
Its Freedom to Think For Yourself | 245 |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS | 250 |
MORE BOOKS TO READ | 251 |
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR | 257 |
ATLAS | 259 |
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