Howard Zinn, a people’s history of the United States |⚒️Social | Full Documentary

“As long as rabbits don't have historians, history will be written by the hunters.“Between 1900 and 1920 more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the United States, like Howard Zinn's parents. They came fleeing poverty or war, or racism, or religious persecution. They dreamed of a promised land, of wealth, or simply of a better New World opens its arms wide to the poor and huddled masses of the Old: it's unwanted, it's fugitives, even a few utopians... But above all, the rapidly expanding industries of the time required cheap labor. Men, women, and children, easy to exploit, easy to , there were strikes and labor struggles all over the country, with great figures like Emma Goldman, Mother Jones, Eugenes Debs and the Wobblies… - A film by Azam Olivier, Mermet Daniel (2015)