People Speak, The (DVD)

The People Speak is a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinns books A Peoples History of the United Statesfirst published in 1980 and one of the best-selling history books in the United Statesand Voices of a Peoples History of the United States, the primary-source companion to A Peoples History of theUnited States, edited with Anthony Arnove. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our pastand presentincluding Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Like Howard Zinns work as a whole, The People Speak celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nations rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.