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• v. 2. [1824-1860].

• Preface Foreword: "Harvey" Frank M. Robinson Introduction: Harvey Milk's Political Archive & Archival Politics Chapter One: Milk and the Culture of Populism
• 1. "Interview with Harvey Milk, " interview, Kalendar, 17 August 1973
• 2. "Address to the San Francisco Chapter of the National Women's Political Caucus, " speech, 5 September 1973
• 3. "Address to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco and to the Lafayette Club, " speech, 30 September 1973
• 4. "An Open Letter to the Mayor of San Francisco, " public letter, 22 September 1973
• 5. "MUNI/Parking Garage, " press release, 27 September 1973
• 6. "Alfred Seniora, " press release, 28 September 1973
• 7. "Who Really Represents You, " campaign flyer, September 1973
• 8. "Milk Note, " column, Vector 1 February 1974
• 9. "Anyone Can Be a Movie Critic: How Not to Find Leadership, " editorial, San Francisco Crusader, February 1974
• 10. "Letter to the City of San Francisco Hall of Justice on Police Brutality, " public letter, 14 February 1974
• 11. "Where I Stand, " article draft, Sentinel, 28 March 1974
• 12. "Where There is No Victim, There is No Crime, " press release, 1 April 1974
• 13. "Political Power, " article draft, Sentinel, 23 May 1974
• 14. "Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle about Anti-Gay Editorials, " letter draft, 1 July 1974
• 15. "Library or Performing Arts Center, " press release, 4 December 1974 Chapter Two: The Grassroots Activist Becomes "The Mayor of Castro Street"
• 16. "Au Contraire ... PCR Needed, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 9 February 1975
• 17. "Harvey Milk for Supervisor, " campaign letter, 26 February 1975
• 18. "Statement of Harvey Milk, Candidate for the 16th Assembly District, " campaign material, 9 March 1976
• 19. "Reactionary Beer, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 18 March 1976
• 20. "Nixon's Revenge
• The Republicans and Their Supreme Court, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 15 April 1976
• 21. "My Concept as a Legislator, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 27 May 1976
• 22. "Uncertainty of Carter or the Certainty of Ford, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 2 September 1976
• 23. "A Nation Finally Talks About ... It, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 9 June 1977
• 24. "Gay Economic Power, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 15 September 1977
• 25. "You've Got to Have Hope, " speech, 24 June 1977 Chapter Three: Supervisor Milk Speaks
• 26. "Harvey Speaks Out, " interview, Bay Area Reporter, 8 December 1977
• 27. "A City of Neighborhoods: First Major Address I and II, " reprinted speech, Bay Area Reporter, 10 January 1978 and 2 February 1978
• 28. "The Word is Out, " public letter, 1 February 1978
• 29. "Letter to 'Abe' on Domestic Politics, " private letter, 7 February 1978
• 30. "Letter to Council Members re Judging People by Myths, " public letter, 13 March 1978
• 31. "Resolution Requiring State Department to Close the South African Consulate" and "Closing the Consulate, " press releases, 22 March 1978
• 32. "Letter to President Jimmy Carter, " private letter, 12 April 1978
• 33. "Untitled (on Gay Caucus and Gay Power), " column, Bay Area Reporter, " 27 April
• 1978
• 34. "California Gay Caucus, " article draft, Alternate, 12 May 1978 Chapter Four: Milk and the Politics of Gay Rights
• 35. "Keynote Speech at Gay Conference 5, " tape cassette transcription of speech, 10 June 1978
• 36. "Gay Rights, " article draft, Coast to Coast, 16 June 1978
• 37. "Gay Freedom Day Speech, " reprinted speech, Bay Area Reporter, 25 June 1978
• 38. "To Beat Briggs, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 3 August 1978
• 39. "I Have High Hopes Address, " stump speech, 1978
• 40. "Harvey Milk vs. John Briggs, " televised debate transcription, 6 August 1978
• 41. "The Positive or the Negative, " column, Bay Area Reporter, 31 August 1978
• 42. "Statement on Briggs/Bigotry, " public letter, 22 September 1978
• 43. "Overall Needs of the City, " speech, 25 September 1978
• 44. "Ballot Argument Against Proposition 6, " public letter (with Frank Robinson), 7 November 1978 Chapter Five: Harvey's Last Words
• 45. "Political Will, " tape cassette transcription, 18 November 1977 Document List Editor Biographies.
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Harvey Milk was one of the first openly and politically gay public officials in the United States, and his remarkable activism put him at the very heart of a pivotal civil rights movement reshaping America in the 1970s. "An Archive of Hope" is Milk in his own words, bringing together in one volume a substantial collection of his speeches, columns, editorials, political campaign materials, open letters, and press releases, culled from public archives, newspapers, and personal collections. The volume opens with a foreword from Milk's friend, political advisor, and speech writer Frank Robinson, who remembers the man who "started as a Goldwater Republican and ended his life as the last of the store front politicians" who aimed to "give 'em hope" in his speeches. An illuminating introduction traces GLBTQ politics in San Francisco, situates Milk within that context, and elaborates the significance of his discourse and memories both to 1970s-era gay rights efforts and contemporary GLBTQ worldmaking.
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• Exploration and establishment, 1776-1784
• Mistrust and misunderstanding : the Father Peña affair, 1785-1787
• The Christian conquest of the Santa Clara Valley, 1788-1795
• Catalá and Viader : the Spanish years, 1796-1821
• Catalá and Viader : the Mexican years, 1821-1830
• The end of the mission era, 1831-1836
• Secularization : ranchos, wars, and the Gold Rush, 1837-1851
• A brief history of the Mission Santa Clara de Asís compound
• Some notes on the archives of the University of Santa Clara past and present by Rev. Arthur Dunning Spear, S.J
• Statistics : Mission Santa Clara de Asís census
• Statistics : Mission Santa Clara de Asís livestock.

• Lessons from My Mother's Past: Researching Chinese Women's Immigration History
• Chin Lung's Affidavit, May 14, 1892
• Leong Shee's Testimony, April 18, 1893
• Leong Shee's Testimony, July 24, 1929
• Jew Law Ying's Coaching Book
• Jew Law Ying's and Yung Hin Sen's Testimonies, April 2-3, 1941
• Oral History Interview with Jew Law Ying
• Bound Feet: Chinese Women in the Nineteenth Century
• Images of Women in Chinese Proverbs: "A Woman without Talent Is Virtuous"
• Kwong King You, Sau Saang Gwa: "If I Could Just See Him One More Time"
• A Stain on the Flag / M.G.C. Edholm
• Confession of a Chinese Slave-Dealer: How She Bought Her Girls, Smuggled Them into San Francisco, and Why She Has Just Freed Them / Helen Grey
• The Chinese Woman in America / Sui Seen [Sin] Far
• Worse Than Slaves: Servitude of All Chinese Wives / Louise A. Littleton
• Mary Tape, an Outspoken Woman: "Is It a Disgrace to Be Born a Chinese?"
• Unbound Feet: Chinese Immigrant Women, 1902-1929
• Sieh King King, China's Joan of Arc: "Men and Women Are Equal and Should Enjoy the Privileges of Equals"
• Madame Mai's Speech: "How Can It Be That They Look upon Us as Animals?"
• No More Footbinding (Anonymous)
• Wong Ah So, Filial Daughter and Prostitute: "The Greatest Virtue in Life Is Reverence to Parents"
• Law Shee Low, Model Wife and Mother: "We Were All Good Women--Stayed Home and Sewed"
• Jane Kwong Lee, Community Worker: "Devoting My Best to What Needed to Be Done"
• The Purpose of the Chinese Women's Jeleab Association / Liu Yilan.

Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents--letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories--detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captivating mosaic of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making a home for themselves and their families in San Francisco from the Gold Rush years through World War II. The personal nature of these documents makes for compelling reading. We hear the voices of prostitutes and domestic slavegirls, immigrant wives of merchants, Christians and pagans, homemakers, and social activists alike. We read the stories of daughters who confronted cultural conflicts and racial discrimination; the myriad ways women coped with the Great Depression; and personal contributions to the causes of women's emancipation, Chinese nationalism, workers' rights, and World War II. The symphony of voices presented here lends immediacy and authenticity to our understanding of the Chinese American women's lives. This rich collection of women's stories also serves to demonstrate collective change over time as well as to highlight individual struggles for survival and advancement in both private and public spheres. An educational tool on researching and reclaiming women's history, Unbound Voices offers us a valuable lesson on how one group of women overcame the legacy of bound feet and bound lives in America. The selections are accompanied by photographs, with extensive introductions and annotation by Judy Yung, a noted authority on primary resources relating to the history of Chinese American women.
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'A staggering amount of research has been done in assembling and editing this material...[This] book is a prized addition to our knowledge of the more obscure early trails leading to California' - "American Historical Review". Western history is all the richer thanks to LeRoy and Ann Hafen, who have assembled a fascinating array of diaries and memoirs of forty-niners who set out from Salt Lake City toward California's gold fields over the Old Spanish Trail. For many would-be gold miners, this dry, dangerous route was preferable to crossing the Sierra Nevada.The Donner party disaster was only three years old and fresh in the minds of many. In reality, the choice of the southern route did not ease travelers' efforts. The unremitting heat and lack of water killed more people and animals than the snows of the mountains. Jacob Stover's narrative provides fine descriptions of these challenges, especially the difficulty in transporting supplies. Of added interest is the journal of Henry Bigler, a former member of the Mormon Battalion, who was the first person to record Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen collaborated on "The Joyous Journey: An Autobiography" and "Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860" (also a Bison Book).
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• Note: Each chapter concludes with Further Readings.
• 1. The Significance of California History ESSAYS James D. Houston, The Place Called California Carey McWilliams, California as "The Great Exception" James N. Gregory, The Shaping of California History
• 2. The First Californians DOCUMENTS Map of Tribal Territories Indian Material Culture The Three Worlds of the Chumash Pablo Tac Approves of His Tribe"s Conversion, 1835 Father Geronimo Boscana Describes the San Juan Capistrano Indians, 1832 A Sacramento Union Editorial Ponders the Indians" Fate, 1855 ESSAYS Arthur F. McEvoy, California Indians as Capable Resource Managers Albert L. Hurtado, Indian and Hispanic Family Patterns Compared
• 3. The Spanish Impact on the Indians, 1769-1821 DOCUMENTS Father Luis Jayme Criticizes the Behavior of Spanish Soldiers, 1772 Father Junipero Serra Reports the Destruction of the San Diego Mission, 1775 Captain Alejandro Malaspina Praises the Beneficial Impact of Spanish Missions, 1792 Lorenzo Asisara Narrates the Assassination of a Priest by Santa Cruz Indians, 1812 ESSAYS Francis F. Guest, O.F.M., Cultural Perspectives on Death and Whipping in the Missions Antonia I. Castaeda, Spanish Violence Against Amerindian Women
• 4. Mexican California: A Study in Contrasts DOCUMENTS A Mexican Commission Urges the Secularization of the California Missions, 1833 Angustias de la Guerra Ord Defends the Virtue of Mission Priests, 1878 Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Criticizes the Mexicans in California, 1834 Guadalupe Vallejo Reminisces About the Ranchero Period William Robert Garner Promotes the American Annexation of California, 1847 Selected Articles from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 ESSAYS Hubert Howe Bancroft, Mexican California as "Lotus-Land" Douglas Monroy, The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California
• 5. Conflicts over Land in a New State, 1850s-1870s DOCUMENTS E. Gould Buffum Exults in Gold"s Discovery, 1850 Louisa Clapp Pokes Fun at Her Experience as a Gold "Mineress, " 1851 J. D. Borthwick Observes Chinese Gold Miners, 1851 John F. Morse Supports Traditional Agrarian Values, 1865 Henry George Censures Land Monopoly, 1871 ESSAYS JoAnn Levy, Women in the Gold Rush Paul Wallace Gates, Early California Land Policy Defended Douglas Monroy, Land and the Conflict of Legal Cultures
• 6. Disputes over Water, 1880s-1910s DOCUMENTS Lux v. Haggin Establishes the "California Doctrine, " 1886 The Wright Act Asserts Community Water Rights, 1887, 1889 Congress Acts: Selections from the Reclamation Act of 1902 John Muir Admires the Hetch Hetchy Valley, 1908 Robert Underwood Johnson Decries Paying Too High a Price for Water, 1909 ESSAYS Donald Worster, The Capitalist Control of Water Use Norris Hundley, Jr., American Political Culture and Water Use
• 7. Big Business and Urban Labor, 1860s to 1930s DOCUMENTS Henry George Expresses Skepticism about Railroads, 1868 Leland Stanford Extols the Public Benefits of Railroad Construction, 1887 Collis P. Huntington Shows Contempt for Congress, 1887 Frank Norris Excoriates the Railroad as the "Octopus, " 1901 Denis Kearney Organizes the Workingmen"s Party of California, 1877 Henryk Sienkiewicz Appraises Chinese Labor in California, 1880 The American Federation of Labor Opposes Chinese Immigration, 1902 ESSAYS Michael Kazin, The Rise of the Labor Movement in California William Deverell, The Southern Pacific Railroad Survives the Pullman Strike of 1894
• 8. California Progressives: The Ambiguities of Political and Moral Reform DOCUMENTS Franklin Hichborn Praises Reform Governor Hiram W. Johnson, 1911 John Randolph Haynes Advocates Direct Legislation, 1911 Chester H. Rowell Analyzes the Problem of Japanese Immigration, 1914 Carrie Chapman Catt Argues That Home and Government Are Related, 1907 Katherine Phillips Edson Boasts of Women"s Influence on State Legislation, 1913 Mary S. Gibson Explains Why Progressive Women Should Uplift Immigrant Women, 1914 ESSAYS Gerald Woods, Progressive Efforts to Banish Vice Gayle Gullett, Women Progressives and Immigrant Women
• 9. Hollywood and the California Dream, 1910s-1930s DOCUMENTS Cecil B. DeMille Reveals How He Creates Special Effects, 1927 A. H. Giannini Explains Why He Decided to Finance the Film Industry, 1926 Harmon B. Stephens Exposes How Films Lower Moral Standards, 1926 Ruth Suckow Analyzes the Appeal of Hollywood Movie Sets, 1939 ESSAYS Lary May, Hollywood and the California Dream Mike Davis, California"s Dark Underside
• 10. Farmworker Struggles in the 1930s DOCUMENTS The California Department of Industrial Relations Evaluates Agricultural Labor Contracts, 1930 Carlos Bulosan Describes the Harsh Existence of Filipino Migrant Farmworkers John Steinbeck Portrays Social Pressures in Agricultural California, 1939 James Rorty Reports on Conditions in the Imperial Valley, 1935 Grower Frank Stokes Defends Mexican Farmworkers" Efforts to Organize, 1936 Ralph H. Taylor Rallies California"s Growers to Protect Their Interests, 1938 ESSAYS Cletus E. Daniel, Communist Organizers in the Imperial Valley Labor Struggles Devra Anne Weber, Mexicano Farmworkers on Strike
• 11. The Impact of World War II on California"s Economy DOCUMENTS The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports on California"s Airframe Industry, 1945 Kaiser Shipyard Workers Fight on the Home Front, 1943 Marye Stumph Recalls Her Work Experiences in an Aircraft Factory Industrial Leaders Assess the West"s Postwar Economic Prospects, 1946 ESSAYS Gerald D. Nash, World War II Transforms California"s Economy Paul Rhode, An Economic Historian Challenges the Nash Thesis
• 12. The Changing Lives of Women and Minorities, 1940s-1950s DOCUMENTS Charles Kikuchi Observes Life in an American "Concentration Camp, " 1942 Two Poems about the Camps, "Barracho Home" and "Mud" Fanny Christina Hill Fights Discrimination against Black Workers in the Aircraft Industry Willard Waller Announces the Postwar Battle of the Sexes, 1945 ESSAYS Sucheng Chan, The Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II Albert S. Broussard, Changes in the Status of African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s Joan M. Jensen and Gloria Ricci Lothrop, Women"s Wartime and Postwar Experiences
• 13. Politics and Protest, 1960s-1970s DOCUMENTS Mario Savio Defends the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, 1965 Ronald Reagan Denounces "The Morality Gap at Berkeley, " 1966 Bobby Seale Explains What the Black Panther Party Stands For, 1968 Manifesto of the Chicano Student Conference, 1969 Declaration of the Asian American Political Alliance, 1969 Indians of All Tribes Occupy Alcatraz Island, 1970 Why Secretaries in Academia Are Fed Up, 1971 ESSAYS W. J. Rorabaugh, Berkeley in the 1960s Lou Cannon, Ronald Reagan as Governor
• 14. The Rise of Information Capitalism DOCUMENTS California Computer Companies, 1989 Art Garcia Describes California"s New Economic Frontier, 1984 Donald Woutat Comments on the Resignation of Steven Jobs from Apple Computer, 1985 Faith Alchorn Details the Use of Computers in Political Campaigns, 1988 Duane Spilsbury Reports on Telecommuting, 1989 ESSAYS AnnaLee Saxenian, The Origins and Business Culture of Silicon Valley Judith Stacey, Women, Families, and Work in the Information Industry Spencer C. Olin, Globalization and the Politics of Locality in Orange County
• 15. The Environment and the Quality of Life Since 1960 DOCUMENTS Samuel E. Wood and Alfred Heller Oppose Urban Sprawl, 1961 Frank M. Stead Assesses California Water Pollution, 1968 Richard Reinhardt Looks at Air Pollution Problems, 1982 A Government Commission Discusses the Dangers of Pesticides, 1988 Carl Anthony Outlines Why African Americans Should Be Environmentalists, 1990 Ronald Bailey Denounces the "Eco-Scam, " 1993 ESSAYS Tim Palmer, California"s Threatened Environment Dixy Lee Ray, Natural Ways to Reduce Urban Air Pollution Robert D. Bullard, Environmental Racism and Justice
• 16. Racial and Class Tensions, 1960s-1990s DOCUMENTS The McCone Commission Analyzes the Watts Riot, 1965 David Rieff Sees Los Angeles as the Capital of the Third World, 1991 Mwatabu S. Okantah Protests the Beating of Rodney King, 1993 Armando Navarro Provides a Latino Perspective on the 1992 Disorders, 1993 Eui-Young Yu Offers a Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Riots, 1992 Patrick J. Buchanan Condemns the "Barbarism" of the Rioters, 1992 John Bryant Encourages Corporate America to Invest in Minority Communities, 1995 Lynell George and David Ferrell Analyze the Staggering Racial Complexity of Los Angeles, 1995 George Regas Advocates a Shared Moral Vision, 1995 ESSAYS Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson, Jr., and Walter C. Farrell, Jr., The Causes of the 1992 Los Angeles Civil Disorders Sumi K. Cho, Perceptions Across the Racial Divide Document Sources Essay Sources.
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This volume compiles carefully selected documents and essays to illuminate the most important controversies in the history of California from the precontact period to the present.
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