Author: American Civil Liberties UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Local Civil Liberties Committees Reports 1937-1938
Author: American Civil Liberties UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Supreme Court and Civil Liberties
Author: Osmond Kessler FraenkelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Report of the Civil Liberties Committee
Author: National Lawyers Guild. Oregon Chapter. Civil Liberties CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
McCarthy's Americans
Author: M. J. HealePublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820320267
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Was the communist witch-hunt unleashed by Senator Joe McCarthy an aberration, or has red scare politics been an intrinsic part of American political life since the 1930s? Was McCarthyism a populist or an elitist phenomenon? Was Senator McCarthy virtually irrelevant to the phenomenon? McCarthy's Americans shows that some of the contending interpretations of McCarthyism are mutually compatible and reveals the importance of pressures usually overlooked. M. J. Heale's deeply probing study of McCarthy's "hinterland" in the American states demonstrates that what is usually called McCarthyism was part of a political cycle that emerged in the 1930s and took two decades to run its course. Heale also argues that much of the red scare dynamic came from the big cities and the white South. It was here that a range of interests exhibiting a fundamentalist fury with the changing times that the political order had fashioned during the New Deal years rested on fragile foundations. Defying the "consensus liberalism" of the 1950s, McCarthy and, more important, the many little McCarthys in the states kept alive a brand of right-wing politics, preparing the way for George Wallace in the 1960s and the revitalized conservatism of Richard Nixon in the 1970s and Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
Annual Report - American Civil Liberties Union
Author: American Civil Liberties UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications
Author: The American Civil Liberties Union Records and Publications, 1917-1975
Author: American Civil Liberties UnionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Strikebreaking and Intimidation
Author: Stephen H. NorwoodPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860468
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation, and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts--particularly college students, African American men, the unemployed, and men associated with organized crime. Norwood also considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter mercenary violence. The book covers a wide range of industries across much of the country. Norwood explores how the early twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald, sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring, as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger, transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the present.
Gendering Radicalism
Author: Beth SlutskyPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803278608
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying member of the Young Communist League. Nearly forty years later, in 1966, Kendra Claire Harris Alexander, a mixed-race woman, enlisted with the Los Angeles branch of the Communist Party, determined to promote class equality. In Gendering Radicalism, Beth Slutsky examines how American leftist radicalism was experienced through the lives of these three women who led the California branches of the Communist Party from its founding in 1919 to its near dissolution in 1992. Separately, each woman represents a generation of the membership and activism of the party. Collectively, Slutsky argues, their individual histories tell the story of one of the most infamous organizations this country has ever known and in a broader sense represent the story of all women who have devoted their lives to radicalism in America. Slutsky considers how gender politics, California's political climate, coalitions with other activist groups and local communities, and generational dynamics created a grassroots Communist movement distinct from the Communist parties in the Soviet Union and Europe. An ambitious comparative study, Gendering Radicalism demonstrates the continuity and changes of the party both within and among three generations of its female leaders' lives.