John Brown : the left's great man -- Haymarket -- Anti-lynching and labor defense : intersections and contradictions -- No wives or family encumber them : Sacco and Vanzetti -- The Communist party and the defense tradition from Scottsboro to the Rosenbergs -- Born guilty : George Jackson and the return of the lumpen hero
Summary
Compares the anti-lynching movement (epitomized the NAACP) to the movement in defense of labor activists (epitomized by the ACLU), and the rhetorical strategies they used to shape public opinion
Analysis
African Americans Crimes against
Civil rights movements United States History
Labor unions United States History
Lynching United States History
Mobs United States History
Radicalism United States History
Riots United States History
United States Race relations History
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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