Kate Schatz - RAD American History A-Z: Movements and Moments That Demonstrate the Power of the People

Acknowledgments

As always, we thank our friends, colleagues, and families, who sustain, love, and support us.

The Ten Speed Press team, who give us the space to put radical work into the world. Charlotte and Steven, who advocate and root for us.

Mia Eichel and Ayame Keane-Lee, for being invaluable research assistants.

Professor Thanayi Jackson, Professor Larissa Mercado-Lpez, Jason Pontius, and Leslie Van Every, for being brilliant outside readers with clear, critical eyes.

A big thank you to Lena Wolff for encouraging an expanded art form and for sharing her studio space, and the Sullivan family for the space, time, and snacks.

The following people provided input, advice, and support during the early stages of this book, truly helping to shape and guide it:

Amy Sonnie, Andrea Yee, Angela Moffett, Anoop Mirpuri, Caterina Meyers, Catherine Newman, Constance Moore, Debra Michals, Erika Mailman, Hindatu Mohammed, Innosanto Nagara, James Costello, Jennifer Ruby, Julie Scelfo, Julie Shayne, Kati Dombrosky, Lauren Pariani, Leslie Tolf, Lisa Vallejos, Mary Roach, Matthew Zapruder, Nina Portugal, Rachel-Anne Palacios, Ray Black, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Waters, Shannon Erby, Stephanie Piper, and W. Kamau Bell

Enormous gratitude to the following people, who offered invaluable feedback, critique, stories, and information, often speaking and corresponding with us at length as we crafted and edited each story and picture. Thank you for your time, generosity, and scholarship:

Adam Mansbach, Alexandria Villaseor and family, Alicia Garza, Amanda Yates Garcia, Anna Tamura, Annie Anderson, Anya Jabour, Ashley Farmer, Barbara Schatz, Barbara Smith, Bridie Lee, Bruce Johansen, Carol Faulkner, Carolyn Norr, Cava Menzies, Cleve Jones, Corin Tucker, Daniela Sea, David Solnit, Dori Midnight, Dunstan Bruce, Emily Klein, Eric Reiss, Innosanto Nagara, Isha Clarke, Jamie Margolin, Jane Pincus, Jasilyn Charger, Jen Smith, Jennifer Burek Pierce, Jennifer Lutzenberger Phillips, Jenny Schmidt, Joan Ditzion, Josh Healey, Judy Norsigian, Karen Korematsu, Kelsey Juliana, LaNada War Jack, Laura Atkins, Laura Belmonte, LeRoy Hill and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Lisa Tetrault, Maegan Parker Brooks, Mark Stryker, Martha Olney, Mereya Goetzinger-Blanco, Mia Bonta, Michael M. Hughes, Michelle Tea, Nikki McClure, Noelani Goodyear, Our Bodies, Ourselves founders, Representative Rob Bonta, Samantha May, Sara Marcus, Sherrie Tucker, Stan Yogi, Stuart James, Susan Zakin, Tammy Rae Carland, Thomas Gregory, Tokata Iron Eyes, Tony Uranday, and Wayne Wiegand

Note: We consulted with many brilliant individuals who helped us immensely in the writing of this book. However, please know that any errors, factual or otherwise, are ours. We welcome feedback and will do what we can to make corrections in future editions.

For more information, a selected bibliography, and additional resources, please visit www.radamericanhistory.com

About the Author and Illustrator

Kate Schatz and Miriam Klein Stahl are the author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling books Rad American Women AZ and Rad Women Worldwide, as well as Rad Girls Can and My Rad Life: A Journal . They are artists, educators, activists, and history geeks who dream of and work toward a just, feminist, and rad future for all. They live in the San Francisco Bay Area with their families and pets.

Miriams papercut illustrations are created using paper, pencil, and an X-Acto knife. Background paintings are done using watercolors.

Notes on the Illustrations

The art in Rad American History AZ is original papercuts and watercolors by Miriam Klein Stahl. Following are descriptions of select images.

Two Alcatraz occupiers, Oohosis (left) and Sandy Berger (right)

#BlackLivesMatter founders (left to right) Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza, and Patrisse Cullors, in front of generations of civil rights and racial justice activists

Harriet Tubman and the Combahee River

Members of the Combahee River Collective marching in Boston in 1970

Lucretia Mott and the Declaration of Sentiments

Judi Bari and the redwoods

Earth First! logo

Art based on WPA poster imagery

1937 promotional poster for Revolt of the Beavers

White pine tree with eagle set against traditional Iroquois wampum belt

Traditional Iroquois longhouse

Hull House, based on a 1910 postcard

Jane Addams (left) and Ellen Gates Starr (right)

Ed Roberts (left) and Don Galloway (right) on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California

Judy Heumann

Billie Holiday

Japanese-owned business in Oakland, California, just before the owner was forced into a prison camp in March 1942; based on a photograph by Dorothea Lange

Fred Korematsu

Library books in front of a card catalog

Carla Hayden

The first Carnegie Library in the US, built in 1888 in Braddock, Pennsylvania

2017 Womens March

1917 NAACP Silent Parade

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. walking with children in Birmingham, Alabama

2018 March for Our Lives speakers (left to right) Edna Chavez, Emma Gonzalez, and Naomi Wadler

The toxic debris, smoke, and water vapor from a nuclear bomb detonation, called a mushroom cloud

Flyer for the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey (circa 1950s)

Cover of the 1971 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves

The founding members of the Boston Womens Health Book Collective (1976)

Sister Corita in her studio

The AIDS quilt displayed on the National Mall in Washington, DC

Gees Bend quilters

Riot grrrls (clockwise from left): Leslie Mah, Nick Yapor-Cox, Ulla McKnight, Daniela Sea, unknown, Deez Nutzian, and Marion Finocchio, based on photographs by Ace Morgan (early 1990s)

Cover of Tammy Rae Carlands zine I Heart Amy Carter (1992)

Stonewall participants (left to right) Marsha P. Johnson, Storm DeLarverie, and Sylvia Rivera

Jewish workers mourning the Triangle Shirtwaist victims

Rose Schneiderman

Dolores Huerta and UFW activists

Fannie Lou Hamer in front of the White House

Silent Sentinels picketing the White House

An accused witch on trial (1692), based on an 1878 drawing of the trials of Giles and Martha Corey by Charles Reinhardt

Members of W.I.T.C.H. (2019)

Jamie Margolin and climate activists

Occupy Wall Street protests at Zuccotti Park (2011)

AdBusters advertisement (2011)

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ALCATRAZ

AND THE INDIAN OCCUPATION OF 1969

We hold the Rock!

FROM THE ALCATRAZ PROCLAMATION

IT WAS 2:00 A.M. on a chilly November night when the first boats set sail for the rocky island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz, the site of the infamous federal prison that once housed gangster Al Capone, had been abandoned and unused for years. The people on board the boats huddled together with their sleeping bags and backpacks, hearts racing as they made the crossing.

The 79 women and men on the boat had several things in common: they were all college students, they were all activists, and, though they came from different tribes, they were all Native American. And they were planning to take over Alcatraz, also known as The Rock, to protest centuries of injustices committed against their people.

Would the Coast Guard stop them, or would they make it onto Alcatraz? Would their plan actually work? And if they did make it, what would happen next?