Computers and Politics: High Technology in American Local Governments

Introduction Part I. Speaking Up for the Disenfranchised 1. Fighting for the Rights of American Labor 2. Awakening a Nation to the Sins of Slavery 3. Setting a Revolutionary Agenda for Women's Rights Dissident Voices/Common Threads I Part II. Struggling to Form a More Perfect Union 4. Promoting "Free Love" in the Victorian Age 5. Crusading against the Barbarism of Lynching 6. Educating America on the Merits of Socialism 7. Following Anarchy toward a New Social Order Dissident Voices/Common Threads II Part III. Rising from a Lone Voice to a Mass Movement 8. Propelling Black Americans into the Promised Land 9. Demanding Wider Access to Birth Control Information Dissident Voices/Common Threads III Part IV. Changing the World in a Single Generation 10. Opposing America's "Dirty War" in Vietnam 11. Defining a Counterculture of Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll...and Social Justice 12. Standing Tall and Tough against Racial Oppression 13. Creating an Agenda for Gay and Lesbian Rights 14. Liberating the American Woman Dissident Voices/Common Threads IV 15. Dissidence in a New Millennium Acknowledgments Notes Index