Description |
xi, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435-454) and index. |
Contents |
Unrelenting campaign against the industrial workers of the world / Fred Thompson -- African American sharecroppers : repression as a way of life / George Stith -- Prewar Red scare : holding militant teamsters at bay / Harry DeBoer and Jake Cooper -- Postwar tests of loyalty : attempts to silence an auto workers' spokesman / Stanley Nowak -- Imposing Cold War orthodoxy : a teachers union under attack / Mildred Grossman -- Purge of the left : expelling international unions from the CIO / Ernest DeMaio -- Pittsburgh story : two rank-and-file labor leaders and a labor priest / Margaret (Peg) Stasik, Charles Owen Rice, Joseph (Sonny) Robinson -- Local P-9 meatpackers, strike, Austin, Minnesota / Local P-9 strikers and supporters ; Cecil Cain ... [et al.] -- Eradicating a powerful, defiant voice from the American consciousness / Paul Robeson, Jr. -- Facing up to southern terror / Walter Bergman, John Lewis, Fred Shuttlesworth -- In the midst of the storm / Anne Braden -- Crucible of Lowndes County, Alabama, and emergent Black power / Johnny Jackson, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) -- Assault on the Black Panther party : the murder of Fred Hampton / Ron Satchel, Akua Njeri (Deborah Johnson), Flint Taylor -- Undercutting African American elected officials / Mervyn Dymally -- HUAC and the irrepressible women strike for peace / Dagmar Wilson -- Berkeley's free speech movement : a prelude / Jackie Goldberg -- Harassing antiwar demonstrators / Norma Becker -- HUAC, the police, the FBI, the courts : containing an extraordinary generation / Abbie Hoffman -- Retribution for acts of conscience / Daniel Ellsberg, Samuel Popkin -- Shootings at Kent State / Roseann (Chic) Canfora and Alan Canfora -- FBI and the committee in solidarity with the people of El Salvador / Jack Ryan ... [et al.] -- Holding the Chicago Red Squad accountable / Chicago Red Squad targets : Richard (Rick) Gutman ... [et al.]. |
Subject |
Political persecution -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Political crimes and offences -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Political activists -- United States -- Biography.
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Added Author |
Schultz, Ruth.
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ISBN |
0520224027 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0520224019 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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