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  1. The Betrayal
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    The filmmaker's personal journey to confront her past, baring her soul to those most hurt by her troubled youth when she ricocheted from far-left radicalism to neo-Nazi fascism out of a desperate need to belong.
  2. Bound for Glory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1970
    The autobiography of folk singer Woody Guthrie.
  3. Circle in the Darkness
    Memoir of a World Watcher
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2020
    Veteran journalist Diana Johnstone's memoir covers half a century of contemporary history. Johnstone recounts in detail how the Western Left betrayed its historical principles of socila justice and peace and let itself be lured into approval of aggressive U.S.-NATO wars on the fallacious grouns of "human rightss". Subjects range from caustic analysis of the pretentious confusion of French philosophers to the stories of many courageous individuals whose struggle for peace and justice ended in deep personal tragedy, with a great deal in between.
  4. Connexions Library: Oral History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009   Published: 2012
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on oral history.
  5. An Execution in the Family
    One Son's Journey
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    A memoir by the son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed in 1953 after being convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
  6. The French Anarchists
    From Chapter 1 of Memoirs of a Revolutionary
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    Of this hard childhood, this troubled adolescence, all those terrible years, I regret nothing as far as I am myself concerned. I am sorry for those who grow up in this world without ever experiencing the cruel side of it, without knowing utter frustration and the necessity of fighting, however blindly, for mankind. Any regret I have is only for the energies wasted in struggles which were bound to be fruitless. These struggles have taught me that, in any man, the best and the worst live side by side, and sometimes mingle - and that what is worst comes through the corruption of what is best.
  7. The Irresistible Revolution
    Living as an Ordinary Radical
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
  8. Judgment unto Truth
    An Armenian Memory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Jernazian was born in Turkish Armenia in 1890 and lived there until he was forced to flee in 1922. This autobriography tells of a way of life in those years now destroyed forever. His sensitive and engrossing account weaves together his personal experiences with the history of his people at the end of the Ottoman Empire. He bears witness to the treatment of the Armenian people and their desperate defence.
  9. Loaves and Fishes
    The Inspiring Story of the Catholic Worker Movement
    Resource Type: Book
  10. The Long Haul 
    An autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990   Published: 1991
    Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for over sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
  11. Long Walk to Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
  12. Memoirs of a Media Maverick
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An engaging memoir of a radical socialist who also was a recognized journalist, writer, and filmmaker.
  13. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1943   Published: 1967
    Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
  14. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave & Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Two first-person accounts of African-American slavery.
  15. A Red Metamorphosis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The following essay has been written and published in response to increasing requests from researchers for information on the background and development of historian Terry Irving and his approach to history.
  16. Take Off the Masks
    Resource Type: Book
    This is the sensitive and moving coming out story of the well-known author, religious leader, and civil rights activist.
  17. Walking through the Valley
    An Autobiography
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  18. You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
    A personal history of our times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994   Published: 2002
    Zinn tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
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