Author: Frank Vasquez DeLaO (III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Containing Communism in Texas
Author: Frank Vasquez DeLaO (III.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anti-communist movements
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Communist Party of Texas 1940 State Platform
Author: Communist Party of the United States of America. Texas State CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign literature, 1940
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Address on the Disease of Communism
Author: Frederick Charles SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Address on the Disease of Communism
Author: Frederick Charles SchwarzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
We Are Not Slaves
Author: Robert T. ChasePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Hank Lacayo Best Labor Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards Best Book Award, Division of Critical Criminology and Social Justice, American Society of Criminology In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while housed in crude dormitories on what were effectively slave plantations. This system persisted until the 1940s when, led by Texas, southern states adopted northern prison design reforms. Texas presented the reforms to the public as modern, efficient, and disciplined. Inside prisons, however, the transition to penitentiary cells only made the endemic violence more secretive, intensifying the labor division that privileged some prisoners with the power to accelerate state-orchestrated brutality and the internal sex trade. Reformers' efforts had only made things worse--now it was up to the prisoners to fight for change. Drawing from three decades of legal documents compiled by prisoners, Robert T. Chase narrates the struggle to change prison from within. Prisoners forged an alliance with the NAACP to contest the constitutionality of Texas prisons. Behind bars, a prisoner coalition of Chicano Movement and Black Power organizations publicized their deplorable conditions as "slaves of the state" and initiated a prison-made civil rights revolution and labor protest movement. These insurgents won epochal legal victories that declared conditions in many southern prisons to be cruel and unusual--but their movement was overwhelmed by the increasing militarization of the prison system and empowerment of white supremacist gangs that, together, declared war on prison organizers. Told from the vantage point of the prisoners themselves, this book weaves together untold but devastatingly important truths from the histories of labor, civil rights, and politics in the United States as it narrates the transition from prison plantations of the past to the mass incarceration of today.
Proceedings of ... National Convention of the American Legion
Author: American Legion. National ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Veterans
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Statistical Reference Index
Author: Encyclopedia of United States National Security
Author: Richard J. SamuelsPublisher: SAGE
ISBN: 0761929274
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1009
Book Description
Covers the origin, development, and results of all major national security policies over the last seven decades. A thoroughly interdisciplinary work, the encyclopedia views national security from a historical, economic, political, and technological perspective.
Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World
Author: Warren I. CohenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521424790
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A comprehensive review of the foreign policy of the Lyndon Johnson era demonstrates U.S. concern not only with the Soviet Union, Europe, and nuclear weapons issues, but the overwhelming preoccupation with Vietnam that shaped policy throughout the world.